What's the difference between alpine and helvetic?

Alpine


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Alps, or to any lofty mountain; as, Alpine snows; Alpine plants.
  • (a.) Like the Alps; lofty.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Such is the secrecy around the plot – centred on an Alpine town where the dead come back to life – that not even the cast have been told about the new series, which is due to begin filming early next year.
  • (2) Norwegian foreign minister Jonas Store said action on black carbon was even more urgent than that on CO2: "Even if we turn the rising curve of greenhouse gas emissions in the coming years, the reduction will not occur quickly enough to preserve the polar and alpine environments.
  • (3) Total litter weight at 150 days was significantly lower for SEA (14.5 kg) than for Alpine (18.8 kg), the Anglo-Nubian (16.9 kg) not differing significantly from either.
  • (4) In the adjacent alpine and subalpine areas isolates were obtained from wild rodents.
  • (5) ACTH-induced stress (AIS) makes the appearance of amnesia cases more frequent and prolongs LP of realized CRAA, unlike DIS, over all the periods of Alpine adaptation.
  • (6) The final few hundred metres are lined with cheering people, some wildly ringing Alpine cow bells.
  • (7) In a prospective follow-up study conducted in 52 French alpine villages, one weekly water sample was taken in each village provided with untreated ground water and analyzed as to the presence of four indicator bacteria: total plate count, total coliforms, thermotolerant (fecal) coliforms, and fecal streptococci.
  • (8) Born in Brig, a Swiss-German speaking Alpine town close to the border with Italy, he studied law at Fribourg university, then worked as the secretary general of the International Centre for Sports Studies at the University of Neuchâtel.
  • (9) Except for somatometric values, there is no other significant difference between alpin and urban children from the physiological point of view.
  • (10) In Experiment 1, 40 multiparous Alpine does were used in a completely randomized block design.
  • (11) This is roughly equivalent to injury rates in alpine skiing.
  • (12) The features of specific adaptation to Alpine, steppe and taiga zones are found against a background of expressed continental adaptive type.
  • (13) The canton of Berne is a heterogeneous region, geographically speaking, extending from the foot of the Jura mountains to high Alpine regions.
  • (14) From the years 1982 to 1989, 377 patients with alpine skiing-related injuries were admitted to St. Anthony's Hospital (a level one regional trauma center).
  • (15) Samples of isoelectrically precipitated goat casein from the milks of French-Alpine and Anglo-Nubian breeds were separated into four components in a single run by reversed-phase HPLC.
  • (16) It was found that the mean values of arterial pressure in cattle-breeders living in alpine regions, both according to age groups and both sexes, were higher than those in cattle-breeders living in mountain regions of middle and low height.
  • (17) The purpose of this study was to evaluate the predictive power of physiological tests in categorizing competitive alpine skiers.
  • (18) Adipose deposits and their lipogenic enzymes were studied on 27 young Alpine male kids.
  • (19) 5 French Alpine Goats were studied after normal or premature parturition.
  • (20) The injuries were sustained during soccer in 28% and during alpine skiing in 26% of the cases, of which the former was responsible for most of the injuries reported in males and the latter for those in females.

Helvetic


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Helvetii, the ancient inhabitant of the Alps, now Switzerland, or to the modern states and inhabitant of the Alpine regions; as, the Helvetic confederacy; Helvetic states.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He wrote a number of medical books, but only one, The Helvetic Reasonable Midwife, still exists.
  • (2) The external gamma radiation and the indoor air Rn (222Rn) concentration were measured in 55 houses of the South East Grisons, the Urseren valley, and the Upper Rhine valley (crystalline subsoils) and in 39 houses of the Molasse basin and the Helvetic nappes (sedimentary subsoils).
  • (3) All his written works were destroyed by the authorities; The Helvetic Reasonable Midwife was published 70 years after his death.
  • (4) Official statistics show that in 2014, the Helvetic Confederation received requests for international administrative assistance in 2,791 cases.
  • (5) Official methods for determination of ginsenosides of the French and Helvetic Pharmacopoeias have been compared with HPLC method.

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