What's the difference between blanking and brightness?

Blanking


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blank

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In contrast, the most frequent haplotype of HLA-DR2 in normal Japanese, A24-C blank-Bw52-C4A*2 B*Q0-BF *S-C2*C-DR2-DQw1, had a decreased frequency to one-third of the normal controls.
  • (2) In case of extractions from blank plasma samples interfering peaks are not observed.
  • (3) Some of the patients with a blank audiogram are better off with exploratory tympanotomy and stapedotomy.
  • (4) Gibson has held the role of chairman since 4 May 2006, when he took over from Sir Victor Blank, who vacated the role to become chairman at Lloyds TSB.
  • (5) Its better sensitivity allowed a lower reagent consumption and a larger sample dilution (contrary to the conventional immunonephelometry, sample pretreatment and sample blank measurement were unnecessary).
  • (6) This blank effect owes its regressive nature to the consumption of the active reagent ingredient by the protein reactive species, variably and sometimes, with certain reactants, nonlinearly in the presence of increasing protein concentrations.
  • (7) Goren, Sarty, and Wu (1975) claimed that newborn infants will follow a slowly moving schematic face stimulus with their head and eyes further than they will follow scrambled faces or blank stimuli.
  • (8) The signals were digitized and subjected to three methods of heart sound cancellation: 75-Hz high-pass filtering (75 HF), ECG-triggered blanking (BL) and adaptive filtering (AF).
  • (9) We aggressively push new uranium deals to countries like India , whose nuclear industry has been called unsafe by its own auditor general , and which point blank refuses to sign the global nuclear non-proliferation treaty .
  • (10) A column chromatographic purification of milk prior to radioimmunoassay decreased the blank and improved sensitivity.
  • (11) Would their parents point-blank refuse to take home yet another Barbie, or would they really be able to stand back and let free choice ensue?
  • (12) Performance was at chance on blank trials, and cats with complete cord transection failed to discriminate.
  • (13) Significant increases were noted in the frequencies of HLA-A 26, B 39 and DR blank antigens.
  • (14) Marked reduction of exogenous cyt c was observed only in sample S: the small reduction of cyt c by sample R was independent of the light wavelength and was equal to the blank level.
  • (15) It would also authorise the use of US forces in situations where ground combat operations are not expected or intended, such as intelligence collection and sharing, missions to enable kinetic strikes, or the provision of operational planning and other forms of advice and assistance to partner forces.” The White House insists the AUMF does not confer authority for “long-term, large-scale ground combat operations”, but the language has already raised concerns among Democrats that it gives the White House another “blank cheque” for open-ended war wherever it chooses.
  • (16) Each matrix was prepared at 3 sulfite levels--the regulatory level, half the regulatory level, twice the regulatory level--and as a blank.
  • (17) Extraterrestrials Decades of searching for signs of alien life have so far turned up a blank, yet the question of whether life on Earth is a one-off is among the most compelling in science.
  • (18) Asked point blank if Mueller should recuse himself from the Russia investigation, Trump said: “Well, he’s very, very good friends with Comey, which is very bothersome.
  • (19) Black cases had significantly higher gene frequencies than black controls for Bw65, Cw2, and DRw14, while white cases had higher gene frequencies than white controls for A3 and Cw2 and blanks at the DR and DQ loci.
  • (20) Hydrogen peroxide was formed when cysteine was exposed to oxygen in the dilution blank solution, and the reaction was inhibited by metal ion-chelating agents.

Brightness


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being bright; splendor; luster; brilliancy; clearness.
  • (n.) Acuteness (of the faculties); sharpness 9wit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is concluded that in the mouse model the ability of buspirone to reduce the aversive response to a brightly illuminated area may reflect an anxiolytic action, that the dorsal raphe nucleus may be an important locus of action, and that the effects of buspirone may reflect an interaction at 5-hydroxytryptamine receptors.
  • (2) They retained the ability to make this discrimination when the coloured stimuli were placed against a background bright enough to saturate the rods.3.
  • (3) There was good agreement between the survival of normally oxygenated cells in culture and bright cells from tumors and between hypoxic cells in culture and dim cells from tumors over a radiation dosage range of 2-5 Gray.
  • (4) Vital staining of neuroblastoma cells with acridine orange produces a bright intracellular red-orange fluorescence most probably due to the occurrence of RNA.
  • (5) Thereafter, donor type cells expressed an intermediate Thy 1.2 brightness; this population then persisted and surpassed the other subsets.
  • (6) It’s a bright, simple space with wooden tables and high stalls and offers tastings and beer-making workshops.
  • (7) The brightly lit ice palaces themselves are stunning, inside and out, and the sporting facilities have been rightly praised by almost all the athletes.
  • (8) The bright lines in the difference image represent the paths along which the filaments have moved and are measured using a crosshair cursor controlled by the mouse.
  • (9) Rats exposed to the bright-light condition suffered a pronounced loss of photoreceptor cells by 10 weeks, and an even greater cell loss by 17 weeks.
  • (10) Even Paul Bright had to get a private charity to fund half his work.
  • (11) There was a uniform decrease in brightness discrimination to either side of the foveal peak.
  • (12) Bright artificial light has been found effective in reducing winter depressive symptoms of Seasonal Affective Disorder, although conclusions about the true magnitude of treatment effect and importance of time of day of light exposure have been limited by methodologic problems.
  • (13) The frequencies of the various anaphase patterns of bright and dim centromere regions were binomially distributed, indicating random distribution of chromatids with respect to the age of their DNA templates.
  • (14) (2) Sequences of brightness steps of like polarity (either increments or decrements) elicit positive and negative motion-dependent response components when mimicking motion in the cell's preferred and null direction, respectively.
  • (15) "Most technologies have their bright and dark side," he replies, buoyantly.
  • (16) Ultrastructural cytochemistry with XRMA is limited by the need to use high-brightness electron sources.
  • (17) Kobani impressed on the Kurds that Erdoğan could not be trusted and that anti-Kurdish feeling continued to burn brightly in the Turkish state.
  • (18) The administration of the drug in Stage 1 improved the acquisition of the initial brightness discrimination and facilitated reversal learning independently of the drug administered in Stage 2.
  • (19) The highest expression was noted in a recurrent plexiform ameloblastoma in which almost 100% of the tumor cells were brightly reactive.
  • (20) Mercaptoacetate, injected in the middle of the bright phase, reduced the latency to eat but did not affect the duration of the subsequent IMI or cumulative food intake in LF rats.