What's the difference between behaviour and kink?

Behaviour


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These channels may, at least in some cases, be responsible for the generation of pacemaker depolarizations, thereby regulating firing behaviour.
  • (2) The stages of mourning involve cognitive learning of the reality of the loss; behaviours associated with mourning, such as searching, embody unlearning by extinction; finally, physiological concomitants of grief may influence unlearning by direct effects on neurotransmitters or neurohormones, such as cortisol, ACTH, or norepinephrine.
  • (3) The behaviour of DAO suggests that the enzyme plays an important role in the control of intracellular diamine concentration.
  • (4) This suggests that hypothalamic NPY might be involved in food choice and that PVNp is important in the regulation of feeding behaviour by NPY.
  • (5) Once the temperature rises above 28C, shoppers' behaviour changes in all kinds of ways, according to Jones.
  • (6) This study provides strong and unexpected evidence that one admission to hospital of more than a week's duration or repeated admissions before the age of five years (in particular between six months and four years) are associated with an increased risk of behaviour disturbance and poor reading in adolescence.
  • (7) For this to work, its leaders had to be able to at least influence the behaviour and tactics of the militant operators on the ground.
  • (8) Socio-economic improvement or behavioural changes appear necessary for the control of trachoma in endemic areas.
  • (9) Isolates showed a decrease in the intensity of apomorphine-induced stereotyped behaviours but no change in stereotypy induced by AMPH.
  • (10) "With the advent of sophisticated data-processing capabilities (including big data), the big number-crunchers can detect, model and counter all manner of online activities just by detecting the behavioural patterns they see in the data and adjusting their tactics accordingly.
  • (11) There were no significant effects of chlordiazepoxide treatment on the behaviour of subordinate rats.
  • (12) Malema has distorted his leftwing credentials with outrageous behaviour.
  • (13) Pupils who disrupt the learning of their classmates are dealt with firmly and, in many cases, a short suspension is an effective way of nipping bad behaviour in the bud."
  • (14) The influence of mucin on the corrosion behaviour of seven typical dental casting alloys was investigated.
  • (15) That the BBC has probably not been as vulnerable since the 1980s is also true – not least because the enemies of impartiality are more powerful, and the BBC's competitors (maimed after a year's exposure of their own behaviour in the Leveson inquiry ) are keen to wreck it.
  • (16) The behaviour of the enzyme from Candida utilis and from Baker's yeast on columns of these and of Blue Sepharose CL-6B was examined, together with the behaviour of the contaminating enzyme, ribulose 5-phosphate 3-epimerase (EC 5.1.3.1).
  • (17) Early views of the Type A behaviour pattern (TABP) sought to disengage it from either neuroticism or emotional distress.
  • (18) Males exploit this behavioural switch by increasing their sneaky mating attempts.
  • (19) There was no evidence of a response to the specific behavioural suggestion during the postoperative interview.
  • (20) Scientists at the University of Trento, Italy, have discovered that the way a dog's tail moves is linked to its mood, and by observing each other's tails, dogs can adjust their behaviour accordingly .

Kink


Definition:

  • (n.) A twist or loop in a rope or thread, caused by a spontaneous doubling or winding upon itself; a close loop or curl; a doubling in a cord.
  • (n.) An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
  • (v. i.) To wind into a kink; to knot or twist spontaneously upon itself, as a rope or thread.
  • (n.) A fit of coughing; also, a convulsive fit of laughter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In seven patients surgical correction of kinking with stenosis of the extracranial part of the carotid artery was performed.
  • (2) Occasionally symptomatic kinking of the internal carotid artery will require correction.
  • (3) A simple and effective surgical procedure as a routine method for correction of carotid kinking is described.
  • (4) It was concluded that photodimerization of the dTpdT unit to give the cis-syn product causes little perturbation of the DNA whereas dimerization to give the trans-syn product causes much greater perturbation, possibly in the form of a kink or dislocation at the 5'-side of the dimer.
  • (5) There is little chance of kinking the graft, since its angle of attachment is ideal, and due to the anatomical configuration of the transverse sinus, there is more room for the graft and compression is unlikely.
  • (6) On the aortogram, stenosis of the left common carotid artery, kinking and aneurysm of the descending thoracic aorta were revealed.
  • (7) However, no reactivity is observed at the sites of the 40 degrees kinks described in the cocrystal structure (Steitz, 1990).
  • (8) However, there is enough evidence to warrant careful consideration of surgical correction in patients who have features of the carotid artery syndrome and kinking of the ICA as shown on angiography.
  • (9) The spin-echo technique with a short time to echo (TE = 40 msec) and a short time to recover (TR = 1000 msec) provided optimum imaging of tonsillar position, hydromyelia cavities, and cervicomedullary "kinking."
  • (10) Kinking, contractures, transverse splitting and disintegration were seen in muscle fibres from post mortem muscle.
  • (11) The former appears characteristic of circularly bent DNA and gives rise to a substantial retardation, the latter of bending across a knot or kink in the DNA chain associated with a relatively minor retardation relative to standards.
  • (12) The obstruction failed to resolve; careful longitudinal serotomy allowed the kinking in the bowel to be straightened and, at 1 year follow-up, there were no symptoms of recurrence.
  • (13) The most important contribution of this procedure is the decrease in manipulation of the ureter, resulting in minimal disturbance of the blood supply and in a straight course of the ureter without the risk of kinking or obstruction.
  • (14) Detection of venous backflow or obstruction, arterial stenosis, aneurysm formation, or graft kinking facilitated correction and thus salvage of the grafts.
  • (15) Proton and deuterium order parameters measured for the liquid crystalline phase of unsonicated lipid bilayer membranes are interpreted in terms of two motions: (i) chain reorientation and (ii) chain isomerization via kink diffusion.
  • (16) Twenty-three patients had slight stenosis, and bending and kinking were observed in 17.
  • (17) As we go along all these kinks will be ironed out.” Under Ghanaian law, farmers are only allowed to sell their beans to purchasing clerks who act as intermediaries between them and Cocobod.
  • (18) Failure to release this structure from the proximal ulna caused kinking and tethering of the nerve when transposition was attempted.
  • (19) During neo-pulmonary reconstruction, distal pulmonary orifice was shifted towards right to avoid kinking and compression on the coronary arteries.
  • (20) The large hyperchroism of the complex is consistent with loss of base stacking, as required by a kinked structure.

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