What's the difference between annotation and explanatory?

Annotation


Definition:

  • (n.) A note, added by way of comment, or explanation; -- usually in the plural; as, annotations on ancient authors, or on a word or a passage.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The purpose of this paper is to outline procedures that will facilitate the integration of microcomputers into the clinical milieu by (a) identifying the reasons why and how these devices are used improperly; (b) proposing ways to correct these problems; (c) providing recommendations concerning the acquisition of major microcomputer hardware, software, and adaptations; and (d) providing an annotated list of resources for further information.
  • (2) The Urinary Incontinence in Adults Guideline Panel facilitated the ready elucidation of its guideline's management recommendations through the use of an annotated algorithm approach.
  • (3) An annotated list of the birds examined for haematozoa is presented and brief descriptions of the species of Haemoproteus and Leucocytozoon in birds of the sub-Saharan zone are included.
  • (4) During the last few years, the efforts have been much more devoted to teaching by means of annotated displays and exhibits.
  • (5) Studies considered valid were summarised for an annotated bibliography, but only reports of major public health significance are reviewed here.
  • (6) His bestselling book is The Annotated Alice, a timeless compendium of footnotes to the two Alice books, and a decade ago he wrote a sequel to The Wizard Of Oz in which Dorothy and friends go to Manhattan.
  • (7) An annotated guide to database vendors is provided, and guidelines are offered that will assist the physician in selecting equipment and assessing services.
  • (8) In addition, at the end of the review is a brief electronics glossary (Appendix A) and an annotated bibliography (Appendix B) to guide further reading.
  • (9) The system has been trained and tested with the first 2,148 of the 8,309 entries of the annotated Protein Identification Resource protein sequence database (release 29).
  • (10) Typical annotations include flagging the positions of primers used for walking, or for marking sites, such as compressions, that have caused problems during sequencing.
  • (11) The collection is annotated and available electronically.
  • (12) After a brief introduction, we annotate 294 articles in the technical category dating back to Sewall Wright (1921).
  • (13) At this time, 55% of the protein spots annotated on the previous equilibrium reference gel for this organism have been located on the new reference image, and these identifications are included in the tables of the database.
  • (14) This annotated bibliography describes 66 simulation games in health education under the headings: diseases; drug use and abuse; ecology; family planning and human sexuality; health care planning; mental health; nursing; nutrition; physical fitness; and safety.
  • (15) The following annotation presents an overview of recent investigations which have shown: that peripheral nerve grafts can stimulate axonal outgrowth in many descending and ascending fibre populations of the injured spinal cord and that central nervous system (CNS) implants, derived from segmental and supraspinal levels of the embryonic neuraxis, may likewise have the potential for promoting repair of damaged intraspinal neural circuitries in adult and neonatal recipients.
  • (16) The following annotated bibliography on the reuse of hemodialyzers is offered as a service to nephrology nurses needing information on this subject.
  • (17) The resulting annotated data files are self-documenting, and their use facilitates visual interpretation of displayed data as well as automatic processing of subsets of data.
  • (18) A lower percentage of the essential records were annotated, 37.6%.
  • (19) Of these 43 traits, 26 are annotated with an asterisk, indicating that their modes of inheritance are well documented, while 17 traits are not so annotated, suggesting uncertain mechanisms of inheritance.
  • (20) The Authors also make a number of technical annotations on the bacteriological diagnosis of cholera.

Explanatory


Definition:

  • (a.) Serving to explain; containing explanation; as explanatory notes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, participation in the workshop program changed in a significant way their explanatory patterns in the direction of more participatory ones.
  • (2) It highlights the lack of explanatory power and the primitive nature of current metapsychology.
  • (3) However, ER emerged as the sole significantly explanatory factor when ER+PR- patients were removed from analysis.
  • (4) It concludes that psychological structures are recently evolved transactional processes that masquerade as explanatory entities, but obey rules of intentionality: a hypothesis with clinical and forensic implications.
  • (5) We elicited explanatory models from patients and obtained a history of prior consultations to other types of healer.
  • (6) When a subsequent model was created that did not include decayed root surfaces or root fragments as potential explanatory variables, an additional variable relating to self-perception of mouth appearance emerged.
  • (7) These are conditional probabilities used in logit models to define the dependence of the multinomial proportions on explanatory variables and unknown parameters.
  • (8) The concept of punitive unconscious self-criticism and the concept of divergent conflict, provide sufficient explanatory power.
  • (9) The yield of explanatory x-ray findings was over three times greater among patients with indications for radiography than among those without.
  • (10) Only hypoalbuminemia had a significant independent explanatory value regarding prognosis.
  • (11) Life satisfaction is used as an explanatory outcome.
  • (12) Signal is useful variability, potentially relatable to explanatory variables, and noise is extraneous.
  • (13) Source of subjects, their marital status, the type of study, data collection methods, matching for geographical area, the number of adjustment factors used in the study analysis, the country of study and the calendar period in which the study ended were all important explanatory factors for inter-study variation, but a substantial proportion of inter-study variation remained unexplained.
  • (14) Age of onset of alcoholism is gaining prominence as an explanatory construct in the development of models of alcoholism.
  • (15) None of the other variables added significant explanatory ability to either model.
  • (16) It is claimed that the demarcation between these explanatory modes is crucial in psychiatric, and especially psychotherapeutic practice and research.
  • (17) This study also points to significant regional variation in the proportion of beneficiaries who use home health services, even with controls for many different explanatory variables.
  • (18) Self-concepts and normative expectations are implicated as key explanatory variables.
  • (19) This week I spoke to Richard Murphy , the economist and tax expert, whose new book has the self-explanatory title The Courageous State and brims with imaginative thinking.
  • (20) One important difference is that among the urban unemployed the perceived size of the network is an explanatory factor, but among the rural unemployed perceived stigmatization is more important.