What's the difference between apportionment and distribution?

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.

Distribution


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of distributing or dispensing; the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as, the distribution of an estate among heirs or children.
  • (n.) Separation into parts or classes; arrangement of anything into parts; disposition; classification.
  • (n.) That which is distributed.
  • (n.) A resolving a whole into its parts.
  • (n.) The sorting of types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.
  • (n.) The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston; viz., admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next admission.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, as other patients who lived at the periphery of the Valserine valley do not appear to be related to any patients living in the valley, and because there has been considerable immigration into the valley, a number of hypotheses to explain the distribution of the disease in the region remain possible.
  • (2) The resulting dose distribution is displayed using traditional 2-dimensional displays or as an isodose surface composited with underlying anatomy and the target volume.
  • (3) The distribution and configuration of the experimental ruptures were similar to those usually noted as complications of human myocardial infarction.
  • (4) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
  • (5) Using monoclonal antibodies directed against the plasma membrane of Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells, we demonstrated previously that a glycoprotein with an Mr = 23,000 (gp23) had a non-polarized cell surface distribution and was observed on both the apical and basolateral membranes (Ojakian, G. K., Romain, R. E., and Herz, R. E. (1987) Am.
  • (6) Models able to describe the events of cellular growth and division and the dynamics of cell populations are useful for the understanding of functional control mechanisms and for the theoretical support for automated analysis of flow cytometric data and of cell volume distributions.
  • (7) The subcellular distribution of sialyltransferase and its product of action, sialic acid, was investigated in the undifferentiated cells of the rat intestinal crypts and compared with the pattern observed in the differentiated cells present in the surface epithelium.
  • (8) Sixteen patients were operated on for lumbar pain and pain radiating into the sciatic nerve distribution.
  • (9) Furthermore, their distribution in various ethnic groups residing in different districts of Rajasthan state (Western-India) is also reviewed.
  • (10) A quantitative comparison of tissue distribution and excretion of an orally administered sublethal dose of [3H]diacetoxyscirpenol (anguidine) was made in rats and mice 90 min, 24 hr, and 7 days after treatment.
  • (11) Their contour lengths varied from 0.28 to 51 micron, but unlike in the case of maize, a large difference was not observed in the distribution of molecular classes greater than 1.0 micron between N and S cytoplasms of sugar beet.
  • (12) The regional distribution of beta-adrenoceptor subtypes was found to be similar to that seen in the rat brain.
  • (13) The distribution of gelsolin, a calcium-dependent actin-severing and capping protein, in the retina of the developing and adult rabbit was studied.
  • (14) In the cannulated group, significant decreases (P less than 0.05) in the area under the elimination curve (AUC), the volume of distribution at steady-state (Vdss) and the mean residence time (MRT) were observed.
  • (15) Febrile reactions were not distributed randomly among the patients; those with respiratory tract infection experienced more febrile reactions during periods with infection than during periods without.
  • (16) Despite this alteration in subcellular distribution, the mutant polypeptide retained the ability to induce fibroblast transformation by several parameters, including the ability to display anchorage-independent growth.
  • (17) Probability distributions are fitted to these data and it is shown that the log-series distribution best fits the data for two subgroups.
  • (18) Employed method of observation gave quantitative information about the influence of odours on ratios of basic predeterminate activities, insect distribution pattern and their tendency to choose zones with an odour.
  • (19) Flow cytofluorometric analysis of the strain distribution of the molecules defined by the mAb revealed that two of the antibodies (I-22 and III-5) were directed against nonpolymorphic determinants of Thy-1, whereas V-8 mAb reacted only with Thy-1.2+ lymphocytes.
  • (20) In contrast with oligodendrocytes, [Cl-]i in astrocytes is significantly increased (from 20 to 40 mM) above the equilibrium distribution owing to the activity of an inward directed Cl- pump; this suggests a different mechanism of K+ uptake in these cells.