What's the difference between apportionment and assignation?

Apportionment


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of apportioning; a dividing into just proportions or shares; a division or shares; a division and assignment, to each proprietor, of his just portion of an undivided right or property.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Avian intrafusal fibers are separable into types based on differences in myosin heavy chain composition and motor innervation, but apportionment of these fiber types to individual spindles is more variable in birds than in mammals.
  • (2) The model is evaluated for a wide range of notional patterns of noise exposure, leading to a simple equation which predicts the relative attribution of disability to previous noise exposures sufficiently accurately for the purposes of apportionment.
  • (3) A related approach is a system of " formulary apportionment " where companies are taxed on the basis of their economic activity and income within a particular geographic jurisdiction rather than arbitrary allocation of costs to geographical areas.
  • (4) The United States already uses formula apportionment internally; it sees the virtue of this system.
  • (5) That’s the beauty of the reformed corporate tax system, known as formula apportionment, that I’m supporting.
  • (6) For years, they have been blocking attempts to move to an apportionment system within the European Union.
  • (7) As of now, Clinton has a lead of just over two-tenths of a percent over Sanders in the overall apportionment of delegates in Iowa.
  • (8) The District Economics Group devised the concept of “ single sales factor apportionment ” – a mechanism that treats company income as a function of how much is sold in a particular country rather than how much profit is declared in that country; thus it proposes taxing corporations based on where sales are made, not where profits are reported.
  • (9) Work should start at once on the establishment of a fair apportionment of emissions country by country, based on the principle of contraction and convergence.
  • (10) The results are incompatible with subject-relative displacement as the sole determining factor of motion induction and they present some difficulties for the hypothesis that induced motion is the result of the apportionment of the objective displacement of the frame.
  • (11) Although the amount of money spent was higher in each year, little change occurred in the relative size or the apportionment of the funds.
  • (12) The modular rotor design consists of a discoidal center insert for eluent and sample apportionment, the chromatographic columns, and flow-through cuvetts-all mounted on an aluminum base plate.
  • (13) So, this paper shows the apportionment loads of dental bridges and the dependence of the elastic constants of abutment teeth.
  • (14) The effects of explicit strategy training, generalized instruction, and no training on recall performance and apportionment of study time were compared.
  • (15) In an effort to determine that role, a questionnaire survey was conducted of the apportionment, direction, duties, and training of anesthesia technicians in teaching departments.
  • (16) The increase in cell volume (from electronic cell sizing) and the apportionment of this volume amongst the nuclear, cytoplasmic, and mitochondrial subcellular compartments (from electron microscopy) were studied throughout the cell division cycle in partially synchronized cultures of Chinese hamster V79-S171 cells.
  • (17) Source apportionment of the mutagenic activity observed in urban air shows that vehicles and residential heating are major contributors to the ambient mutagenicity of the aerosol fraction.
  • (18) It should always be remembered that the assumptions determine much of the final solution, including the apportionment of trend to the different components, age, period, or cohort.
  • (19) Apportionment of liability for noise-induced hearing loss is required in medicolegal work when two or more separate instances of noise exposure have occurred.
  • (20) In general there are insufficient audiometric records to determine how much hearing loss was caused by each noise exposure, and hence there is insufficient information on which to base apportionment of liability.

Assignation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment.
  • (n.) An appointment of time and place for meeting or interview; -- used chiefly of love interviews, and now commonly in a bad sense.
  • (n.) A making over by transfer of title; assignment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Structure assignment of the isomeric immonium ions 5 and 6, generated via FAB from N-isobutyl glycine and N-methyl valine, can be achieved by their collision induced dissociation characteristics.
  • (2) A statement from the company said it had assigned all its assets for the benefit of creditors, in accordance with Massachusetts' law.
  • (3) Five days later, the animals were randomly assigned to one of four treatment groups: Group 1 received intracranial implantation of controlled-release polymers containing dexamethasone; Group 2 received intraperitoneal implantation of controlled-release polymers containing dexamethasone; Group 3 received serial intraperitoneal injections of dexamethasone; and Group 4 received sham treatment.
  • (4) Students are assigned to tutorial groups, and much of the educational thrust of the program is built upon interactions within these groups.
  • (5) The second triplet, which was stable in the dark at 4.2 K following illumination, was assigned to the radical pair Donor+I-.
  • (6) After the first stage of analysis the spin systems of 60 of the 77 residues were assigned to the appropriate residue type, providing an ample basis for subsequent sequence-specific assignments.
  • (7) In an effort to identify the optimal dose and strain of measles vaccination for early immunization, Peruvian infants were randomly assigned to receive one of three measles vaccines in varying doses at 5 to 6 or 8 to 9 months of age.
  • (8) Independent t test results indicated nurses assigned more importance to psychosocial support and skills training than did patients; patients assigned more importance to sensation--discomfort than did nurses.
  • (9) Families were randomly assigned to one of two forms of conjoint therapy: an Insight-oriented treatment (N = 10) or a Problem-Solving intervention (N = 10).
  • (10) Patients were randomly assigned to receive 10 minutes before surgery either I.V.
  • (11) Some additional amino proton resonances have also been assigned.
  • (12) These chemical shift assignments have been achieved using 1H-detected two-dimensional heteronuclear 1H-13C correlation techniques.
  • (13) 7 male and 39 female undergraduates were alternately assigned to rooms painted red or Baker-Miller Pink.
  • (14) These data agree with the recent assignment of DIA1 to chromosome G22 by Fisher et al.
  • (15) The sequential resonance assignment of the 1H NMR spectrum of the antihypertensive and antiviral protein BDS-I from the sea anemone Anemonia sulcata is presented.
  • (16) Following a baseline examination, the furcation-involved molars were randomly assigned in each patient to either a test or a control treatment procedure.
  • (17) The letter to Florence Nightingale was written by Bernita Decker as part of a nursing course assignment for our Nurse Educator advisor, Betty Pugh.
  • (18) This initial observation of release of eosinophil chemotactic factor of anaphylaxis in vivo along with histamine assigns the mast cell a central role in cold urticaria.
  • (19) This assignment was supported by peptide mapping with a tryptophan-specific reagent.
  • (20) Both amino acids were found to have the L-configuration by GC analysis on a chiral column and alanine was assigned to be the N-terminal amino acid by Edman degradation.

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