What's the difference between adjustment and rectification?

Adjustment


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of adjusting, or condition of being adjusted; act of bringing into proper relations; regulation.
  • (n.) Settlement of claims; an equitable arrangement of conflicting claims, as in set-off, contribution, exoneration, subrogation, and marshaling.
  • (n.) The operation of bringing all the parts of an instrument, as a microscope or telescope, into their proper relative position for use; the condition of being thus adjusted; as, to get a good adjustment; to be in or out of adjustment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Increased plasmin activity was associated with advancing stage of lactation and older cows after appropriate adjustments were made for the effects of milk yield and SCC.
  • (2) The difference in HDL and HDL2 cholesterol concentrations between the MI+ and MI- groups or between the MI+ and CHD- groups persisted after adjustment by analysis of covariance for the effect of physical activity, alcohol intake, obesity, duration of diabetes, and glycemic control.
  • (3) However, this predictive value disappeared when five baseline parameters found to predict the outcome (neopterin, beta 2-microglobulin, p24 antigen, anti-p18 antibody and immunoglobulin A) were adjusted.
  • (4) Throughout the period of rehabilitation, the frequent changes of a patient's condition may require a process of ongoing evaluation and appropriate adjustments in the physical therapy program.
  • (5) This modified endocrine activity in brook trout may reflect adjustment to adverse external ionic conditions.
  • (6) Variables included an ego-delay measure obtained from temporal estimations, perceptions of temporal dominance and relatedness obtained from Cottle's Circles Test, Ss' ages, and a measure of long-term posthospital adjustment.
  • (7) By adjustment to the swaying movements of the horse, the child feels how to retain straightening alignment, symmetry and balance.
  • (8) The prevalence of diabetes was 36% higher among San Antonio Mexican Americans than among Mexicans in Mexico City; this difference was highly statistically significant (age- and sex-adjusted prevalence ratio 1.36, P = 0.006).
  • (9) These reflexes can function to limit forces applied to a leg and provide compensatory adjustments in other legs.
  • (10) This activity scheme uses as its base, dose potency measured as TD50, the chronic dose rate that actuarially halves the adjusted percentage of tumor-free animals at the end of the study (Gold et al., Environ.
  • (11) "With the advent of sophisticated data-processing capabilities (including big data), the big number-crunchers can detect, model and counter all manner of online activities just by detecting the behavioural patterns they see in the data and adjusting their tactics accordingly.
  • (12) Sterilization rates at the time of abortions increased with increasing age and with increasing gravidity, but the total rates, adjusted for age and gravidity of patients, have changed little in the past 15 years.
  • (13) The adjusted odds ratio of having one or more hospitalization for current drinkers relative to life-long abstainers in females was 0.67 (95 per cent confidence interval 0.57-0.79) and in males was 0.74 (0.57-0.96).
  • (14) The crude survival rate at 5 years was 83.3% (age-adjusted 96%), and at 10 years 53.8%).
  • (15) There were no relationships between blood pressure and calorie-adjusted intakes of fats, carbohydrates, sodium, potassium, calcium or magnesium.
  • (16) In this paper we propose an alternative approach, based on a simple adjustment of the standard Pearson chi-square test for the equality of proportions.
  • (17) Dose adjustment using 24-hour levels was well tolerated and should help to attain a more rapid response to antidepressant treatment.
  • (18) Scientists at the University of Trento, Italy, have discovered that the way a dog's tail moves is linked to its mood, and by observing each other's tails, dogs can adjust their behaviour accordingly .
  • (19) Adjustment for possible mechanisms correlated with social class (marital status, smoking, time of first antenatal visit) decreased the higher occurrence of low birthweight infants in the low educational groups.
  • (20) An attempt to eliminate the age effect by adjusting for age differences in monaural shadowing errors, fluid intelligence, and pure-tone hearing loss did not succeed.

Rectification


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or operation of rectifying; as, the rectification of an error; the rectification of spirits.
  • (n.) The determination of a straight line whose length is equal a portion of a curve.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The kinetics of the membrane current during the anomalous or inward-going rectification of the K current in the egg cell membrane of the starfish Mediaster aequalis were analyzed by voltage clamp.
  • (2) These results might indicate that the symmetric phosphorylation of junctional proteins in the two hemichannels increases gj without rectification while asymmetric phosphorylation generates rectification of junctional membrane.
  • (3) 1) Most large aspiny neostriatal cells in the matrix, although they take heterogeneous shapes, belong to one physiological class with long-duration AHPs and a strong time-dependent component of anomalous rectification.
  • (4) The background potassium current showed typical inward rectification at potentials more negative than -80 mV.
  • (5) The rectification at 50 microseconds is attributed to voltage dependence of Na+ permeation.
  • (6) In contrast, addition of GDP (20 or 40 microM) produced a loss of rectification in a few minutes.
  • (7) Under these conditions, the instantaneous current observed as soon as the depolarizing pulse is applied displays outward rectification and reverses near ECl.
  • (8) In TTX solution, D600 and verapamil reversibly reduced the amplitude and the maximum rate of rise of the Ca-dependent action potential as well as delayed rectification.
  • (9) Current-voltage relationship exhibited anomalous rectification by depolarization of membrane in longitudinal muscle cells, and delayed rectification in most circular muscle.
  • (10) Delayed and anomalous rectification were seen in both cell types.
  • (11) This discontinuity occurs with stimulus conditions that also elicit proximal negative responses in the local electroretinogram and appears to be due to a centrally located process having some degree of rectification.
  • (12) The current-voltage relationship of the somatostatin-induced current exhibited a rectification in the inward direction and showed a reversal potential.
  • (13) In symmetrical salt solutions, the current-voltage properties of these membranes were linear; in asymmetrical NaCl solutions, the membranes exhibited electrical rectification consistent with constant-field theory.
  • (14) From the above the conclusion is reached that the gating of the K channel of the inward rectification depends on V and external but not internal K+ concentration.
  • (15) As with all other modalities used for treating painful conditions, proper evaluation of the etiology and the rectification of the cause is important.
  • (16) This decrease was usually more than could be accounted for by anomalous rectification of the membrane.
  • (17) The rectification has instantaneous and time-dependent components.
  • (18) The outward current showed a reversal potential near the K equilibrium potential, inward rectification, and no relaxation on voltage jumps.
  • (19) steady state inward rectification in depolarizing direction).
  • (20) Type-I neurons possessed (1) spontaneous repetitive firings, (2) short-duration action potentials, (3) less prominent spike accommodations, and (4) a strong delayed rectification during membrane depolarization.