What's the difference between banc and slope?

Banc


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Bank

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On Tuesday, the group filed an emergency motion for a rehearing, suggesting that it be conducted “en banc,” that is, before the full court.
  • (2) In these cases the tension band principle by means of a tension banc archbar or a tension band plate cannot be applied, because of missing teeth on the proximal fragment, or a non erupted wisdom tooth.
  • (3) The final preparation gives one major protein banc in disc gel electrophoresis.
  • (4) It also stated: “Chief Judge Wood and Judges Posner, Rovner, Williams and Hamilton voted to hear this matter en banc.
  • (5) The Wisconsin Department of Justice sent an email in response to requests for comment, stating: “We have nothing to add regarding today’s denial for a rehearing en banc in the federal voter ID cases.” The state attorney general filed a brief with the seventh circuit court of appeals on Tuesday, asking that it refuse to re-hear the case.
  • (6) In such gels a Sudan Black positive reaction coincident with the periodic acid-Schiff positive banc was obtained.

Slope


Definition:

  • (v. i.) An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface to another.
  • (v. i.) Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon.
  • (a.) Sloping.
  • (adv.) In a sloping manner.
  • (v. t.) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to direct obliquely; to incline; to slant; as, to slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment.
  • (v. i.) To take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the plane of the horizon; to incline; as, the ground slopes.
  • (v. i.) To depart; to disappear suddenly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In this review, we demonstrate that serum creatinine does not provide an adequate estimate of glomerular filtration rate (GFR), and contrary to recent teachings, that the slope of the reciprocal of serum creatinine vs time does not permit an accurate assessment of the rate of progression of renal disease.
  • (2) Regression curves indicate that although all three types of pulmonary edema can be characterized by slightly different slopes, the differences are statistically insignificant.
  • (3) With profound blockade, the slope of the edrophonium dose-response relationship was significantly flatter (P less than 0.05) than that of neostigmine.
  • (4) The slope of the thermal inactivation curve of enterotoxin A in beef bouillon (initial pH 6.2) was found to be approximately 27.8 C (50 F) with three different concentrations of toxin.
  • (5) The summary statistics examined are (a) the slope of the least-squares regression of the marker, (b) the average of the last r measurements, and (c) the difference between the averages of the last r and the first s measurements.
  • (6) A patient with mitral stenosis and atrial flutter was found to have a normal diastolic closure rate (E to F slope).
  • (7) With cortisol and cortisol-21-aldehyde, product inhibition patterns showed only slope effects with steroid product and NAD+, suggesting a "random" mechanism.
  • (8) A positive correlation was found between the content in the eluted cell fractions of LH and dynorphin-like immunoreactivity with a correlation coefficient and a slope of the regression line close to one.
  • (9) From the stress-strain curve the following values were selected: strain, stress, and slope at 80 mmHg equivalent pressure (1 mmHg = 133.3 Pa); maximum stress, strain, and slope; and breaking stress, strain, and slope if the sample broke.
  • (10) When age and smoking habits were controlled for, slope of phase III was significantly related to hospitalization due to respiratory disease in general and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), whereas closing volume and closing capacity were marginally related to hospitalization due to respiratory disease in general but not to hospitalization due to COPD.
  • (11) To evaluate threshold estimates under these conditions, computer simulations of experiments with small numbers of trials were performed by using psychometric functions based on a model of two types of noise: stimulus-related noise (affecting slope) and extraneous noise (affecting upper asymptote).
  • (12) It is shown that when a constant current is applied such that a stable equilibrium and rhythmic firing are present, the following predictions are inherent in the HH system of equations: (a) Small instantaneous voltage perturbations to the axon given at points along its firing spike result in phase resetting curves (when new phase versus old phase is plotted) with an average slope of 1.
  • (13) A "peeling" technique was used to estimate the time constants (tau 0 and tau 1) and coefficients (a0 and a1) of the first two exponential terms of the series of exponential terms whose sum represented the slope of the voltage response.
  • (14) No significant correlation was found between the pulmonary valve e-f slope and the pulmonary artery pressures.
  • (15) We should be grateful the School Food Trust has established this now, before we end up falling down a slippery slope back towards the dreaded Turkey Twizzler that Jamie Oliver campaigned to banish," he added.
  • (16) With grievous amazement, never self-pitying but sometimes bordering on a sort of numbed wonderment, Levi records the day-to-day personal and social history of the camp, noting not only the fine gradations of his own descent, but the capacity of some prisoners to cut a deal and strike a bargain, while others, destined by their age or character for the gas ovens, follow "the slope down to the bottom, like streams that run down to the sea".
  • (17) The slope of Phase III in both N2 and He washouts was influenced in an inconstant fashion, probably reflecting differing contributions from topographic and intraregional inhomogeneities of ventilation in these subjects.
  • (18) The slope of this line was substantially steeper than the regression line slope for treadmill running.4.
  • (19) Pulmonary mean filling pressure increased and the slope-gradient of pulmonary VR-curve decreased, indicating an increased resistance to venous return from the pulmonary circulation.
  • (20) It is suggested that the measurement of functional residual capacity, closing volume, and the slope of the alveolar plateau (phase III in the single breath nitrogen washout technique) might give more valuable information.

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