What's the difference between asymmetric and nonsymmetric?

Asymmetric


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Asymmetrical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The data collection scheme for the scanner uses multiple rotations of a linearly shifted, asymmetric fan beam permitting user-defined variable resolution.
  • (2) Subjects with high ocular-dominance scores (right- or left-dominant subjects) showed for the green stimulus asymmetric behavior, while subjects with low ocular-dominance scores showed a tendency toward symmetry in perception.
  • (3) The Soret MCD of the reduced protein is interpreted as th sum of two MCD curves: an intense, asymmetric MCD band very similar to that exhibited by deoxymyoglobin which we assign to paramagnetic high spin cytochrome a3(2+) and a weaker, more symmetric MCD contribution, which is attributed to diamagnetic low spin cytochrome a2+.
  • (4) Bidirectional selection in the E strain was unsuccessful, but an asymmetrical response to selection was obtained in the N strain and in lines derived from crosses between the N and the E strains.
  • (5) The diagnosis was considered established, when the patient had a significant left intraventricular pressure gradient (LIPG) and by angiographic and or echocardiographic demonstration of systolic anterior movement of the mitral valve and asymmetric septal hypertrophy.
  • (6) Several short-chain asymmetric lecithins with a total of 14 carbons in the acyl chains (ranging from 1-lauroyl-2-acetylphosphatidylcholine to 1-hexanoyl-2-octanoylphosphatidylcholine) have been synthesized and characterized.
  • (7) As part of the analysis the positions of 84 solvent molecules in the asymmetric unit were established.
  • (8) The formation of cavity is followed by asymmetrical segment demyelination and reparative hyperplasia of the astroglial cells and gliosis of the cavity walls.
  • (9) Asymmetrical gait pattern with mild gait disturbance was found more often in infants lying in supine than in prone.
  • (10) In the rotatory and transverse gallop (examples of the in-phase form of locomotion) the coupling is asymmetrical: on one side it is comparable to pacing (forelimb flexion precedes hindlimb extension), and on the other side to trotting (forelimb flexion follows extension).
  • (11) The highly asymmetrical shock wave is produced in the focal region by providing an appropriate time delay to each of the high voltage electrical excitation signals which drive the transducers.
  • (12) It sediments at 15 S in sucrose density gradients indicating a molecular weight of 380,000, but apparently is very asymmetric.
  • (13) At the former site the membrane overlying the bud showed an electron opaque thickening which imparted to the mature particle an asymmetrical appearance.
  • (14) The two molecules in the asymmetric unit form a dimer with its 2-fold axis perpendicular to and intersecting with a crystallographic 4(1) axis.
  • (15) Thus, the 2 sides of the CVP meridian have different morphogenetic properties and such differences are determinative in the asymmetrical fine-positioning of the CVP.
  • (16) In 14 patients with asymmetrical baseline VERs, hypercapnia caused improvement of symmetry in five, worsening in three, and no change in six.
  • (17) Temperature decline through the region of 10 degrees C caused a number of spermatozoa in buffer to undergo a sudden asymmetric bending of the flagellum in the region of the midpiece.
  • (18) The result discloses an asymmetrical cross-section of pneumococcal cell walls because capsular polysaccharides are located on the outer surface of the walls only, in contrast to the cell wall polysaccharide, which has been shown to be located on both surfaces.
  • (19) The analysis of these profiles showed that the reaction center protein incorporates into the phosphatidylcholine membrane with unique sidedness and that the profile of the reaction center protein itself is asymmetric and spans the membrane.
  • (20) The calorimetric data can be simply explained in terms of an asymmetric distribution of the major ROS disk membrane phospholipids (G.P.

Nonsymmetric


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Groups receiving no medication for gastric acidity had positively skewed pH distributions (nonsymmetrical distribution with tail pointing to right and majority of cases in lower range), and groups receiving medications for the reduction of acidity had negatively skewed pH distributions (nonsymmetrical with tail pointing to left and majority of cases in upper range).
  • (2) First, it appeared that the statistical distribution of data is typically nonsymmetrical, non-Gaussian, and characterized by a tail extending toward the high values.
  • (3) The most nonsymmetrically depolarized chloroethylene, 1,1-dichloroethylene (1,1-DCE) is the most hepatotoxic and causes a unique pattern of hepatocellular injury involving mitochondria, plasma membranes, and chromatin.
  • (4) The results of optimality studies of the branching angles of arterial bifurcations are extended to nonsymmetrical bifurcations.
  • (5) While all but one nonsymmetric heme yielded comparable amounts of the two heme orientations immediately after reconstitution, the relative proportion of the two orientations at equilibrium varied widely.
  • (6) Predicted nonsymmetrical bifurcations are found to be not unlike those observed in the cardiovascular system.
  • (7) It is very important to note that acceleration acting from right to left or from left to right (in the frontal plane) produced nonsymmetric pressure by the right and left limbs.
  • (8) The effects of dominance can be summarized as functions of the average, D, and the variance, sigma 2 D. An important distinction arises between symmetrical and nonsymmetrical distributions of gene effects.
  • (9) Intact noncross-linked tropomyosin (approximately 3 degrees C) shows a negative nonsymmetric band maximal at 280 nm.
  • (10) This was explained by substrate-selective oxidation of the nonsymmetric 16 alpha, 17 alpha-acetal substituent.
  • (11) The treated cells also exhibited a nonsymmetrical growth pattern at a time when random terminal branching is normally occurring.
  • (12) Synthesized were nonsymmetrical N1N1--replaced products of thiocarbamide containing residual alkyl- and arylsinapic oils and the sulfonamide ethasole, in order to study their pharmacologic activity.
  • (13) This step involves the reductive demethylation of CH3-S-CoM with reducing equivalents from N-7-(mercaptoheptanoyl)-L-threonine O3-phosphate (HS-HTP) to yield methane and the nonsymmetrical disulfide of 2-mercaptoethanesulfonic acid and HS-HTP.
  • (14) Cleavage of the vector DNA by SfiI creates two different nonsymmetrical 3' extensions at the ends of the vector arms.
  • (15) If OR is to be estimated, Jewell's method had strong merit, although it is nonsymmetric with respect to the table orientation.
  • (16) A family with familial combined hyperlipidaemia in which affected members had nonsymmetric subcutaneous lipomatosis (NSSCL) is described.
  • (17) In two different tasks, subjects were asked to make lexical decisions (word or nonword) and symmetry judgments (symmetrical or nonsymmetrical) about two-dimensional polygons.
  • (18) Equilibrium denaturation curves for the mutant protein exhibit biphasic or nonsymmetrical transitions by a variety of spectroscopic and hydrodynamic techniques, whereas the wild-type protein at the same concentration exhibits symmetrical transitions.
  • (19) The intrastrand and cross-strand NOEs from adenine H2 to H1' resonances of neighboring base pairs exhibited characteristic patterns that were very useful for checking the spectral assignments, and their highly nonsymmetric nature reveals that the conformations of the two strands are quite different.
  • (20) The existence of nonsymmetric transport (uptake is more inhibited than release) is postulated for the myocyte, as well as for the endothelial cell plasma membrane.

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