What's the difference between collocation and significant?

Collocation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of placing; the state of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In several herpesviruses the genes for the major DNA binding protein (MDBP), a putative assembly protein, the glycoprotein B (gB), and the viral DNA polymerase (pol) collocate.
  • (2) Intrathoracic inoculation with the mosquito spiroplasma, Spiroplasma taïwanense Abalain-Colloc et al., was found to reduce significantly the survival of adult male and female Aedes aegypti (L.) and Anopheles stephensi Liston.
  • (3) Six PM10 Hi-Vol samplers were collocated at an urban site in downtown Durham, North Carolina and operated simultaneously to evaluate 12 h versus 24 h collection periods and filter media choices of glass fiber, Teflon impregnated glass fiber (TIGF), and quartz fiber.
  • (4) Both light and electronmicroscopic examinations of the collocation of surfactant secreted by the alveoli into the bronchi were performed on material obtained from biopsies and autopsies.
  • (5) The model equations have been numerically solved by using the methods of orthogonal and spline collocation.
  • (6) Kidney biopsies from one patient with primary (AL) and three with secondary (AA) amyloidosis were used for an ultrastructural study of the collocalization of basement membrane proteins and the extracellular matrix protein fibronectin within amyloid deposits.
  • (7) Ozone transport in a rigid single-pathway anatomic model of the lung was analyzed by a stable convergent numerical algorithm, the method of orthogonal collocation on finite elements.
  • (8) The spindle is formed by the collocation of individual units which envelope each chromosomal mass.
  • (9) We made the first 4 cholecystectomies by laparoscopy in Mexico, without serious problems; 8 Tenckhoff catheters were collocated without surgical intervention; drainage of amebic abscess were done in 8 cases.
  • (10) They do not collocalize with somata and dendrites identified by simultaneous labeling with the microtubule-associated protein MAP2, suggesting that they are derived from axons.
  • (11) The equations of continuum mechanics from the theory of finite deformation elasticity are formulated in a prolate spheroidal coordinate system and solved using a combination of Galerkin and collocation techniques.
  • (12) Comparing C values for collocated high-volume and cascade-impactor samplers during the Upshot-Knothole series showed similar lognormal distributions, but with a geometric mean C for cascade impactors about half that for the high-volume air samplers.
  • (13) As it could not be excluded that the collocality was coincidental, it could not be ascertained whether the IgA granules were in fact related to the fibrillin immunoreactive fibers in these specimens.
  • (14) Before intervention it is important to collocate a tube in the fistula's course by means of a direct microlaryngoscopy which will serve as guide and allow the injection of methylene blue.
  • (15) Electrical activation of the model is achieved by solving the FitzHugh-Nagumo equations with collocation at fixed material points of the anatomical finite element model.
  • (16) The functional significance of this surfactant portion for bronchial clearance is discussed in relation to the changes in structure of these membranous bodies, and their collocation in the mucus layers in chronic bronchitis, ARDS and IRDS.
  • (17) The frequency equations are obtained by using the Fourier expansion collocation method and are analyzed numerically.
  • (18) A reaction-diffusion model was used to simulate a co-immobilized system utilizing the numerical method of orthogonal collocation.
  • (19) Helical replicative forms, but not the persistent non-replicative forms, of Spiroplasma taiwanense Abalain-Colloc et al.
  • (20) Programming techniques using finite difference simulations for the steady state and transient solutions of the Nernst-Planck and Poisson equations were used and solved by the collocation and corrector methods.

Significant


Definition:

  • (a.) Fitted or designed to signify or make known somethingl having a meaning; standing as a sign or token; expressive or suggestive; as, a significant word or sound; a significant look.
  • (a.) Deserving to be considered; important; momentous; as, a significant event.
  • (n.) That which has significance; a sign; a token; a symbol.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Once treatment began, no significant changes occurred in Group 1, but both PRA and A2 rose significantly in Groups 2 and 3.
  • (2) However, patients with GGBHS were significantly older (P less than .05).
  • (3) In each sheep there was a significant negative correlation between the glucose and corticosteroid concentrations in both maternal and fetal plasma, and there were positive correlations between the maternal and fetal plasma concentrations of glucose, and between the glucose and fructose concentrations of fetal plasma.
  • (4) Such a decrease significantly biased survival (p = 0.001).
  • (5) This may have significant consequences for people’s health.” However, Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, which funded the work, said medical journals could no longer be relied on to be unbiased.
  • (6) It is supposed that delta-sleep peptide along with other oligopeptides is one of the factors determining individual animal resistance to emotional stress, which is supported by significant delta-sleep peptide increase in hypothalamus in stable rats.
  • (7) However, when first trimester specimens were analyzed, the direct-product measurements were significantly larger than the corresponding 3H2O assay results.
  • (8) The Na+ ionophore, gramicidin, had a small but significant inhibitory effect on Na(+)-dependent KG uptake, demonstrating that KG uptake was not the result of an intravesicular positive Na+ diffusion potential.
  • (9) Propranolol resulted in a significantly lower mean hourly, mean 24 h and minimum heart rate.
  • (10) In some other countries the patient-to-nurse ratio was significantly smaller.
  • (11) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
  • (12) The significance of minor increases in the serum creatinine level must be recognized, so that modifications of drug therapy can be made and correction of possibly life-threatening electrolyte imbalances can be undertaken.
  • (13) The process of sequence rearrangement appears to be a significant part of the evolution of the genome and may have a much greater effect on the evolution of the phenotype than sequence alteration by base substitution.
  • (14) The low affinity of several N1-alkylpyrroleethylamines suggests that the benzene portion of the alpha-methyltryptamines is necessary for significant affinity.
  • (15) During control, no significant difference between systolic fluctuation (delta Pa) and pleural swings (delta Ppl) was found.
  • (16) Urinary ANF immunoreactivity was significantly enhanced by candoxatril in both groups (P less than 0.05 and P less than 0.01 in groups 1 and 2, respectively), with a more pronounced effect evident at the higher dose (P less than 0.01).
  • (17) Both lymph flow from cannulated pancreatico-duodenal lymphatics and intralymphatic pressure in the non-transected ones increased significantly.
  • (18) We conclude that the priming effect is not a clinically significant phenomenon during natural pollen exposure in allergic rhinitis patients.
  • (19) This study examined the [3H]5-HT-releasing properties of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) and related agents, all of which cause significant release of [3H]5-HT from rat brain synaptosomes.
  • (20) However, the degree of sedation caused by diphenhydramine was significantly greater than that caused by cimetidine (P = .0001).