What's the difference between commingle and flux?

Commingle


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) To mingle together; to mix in one mass, or intimately; to blend.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After the acute bleeding period, all Group P and Group S ewes were commingled and exposed to a ram continuously for 42 d. Samples of serum were collected thrice weekly and analyzed for progesterone to monitor ovulatory response to ram introduction through the 42-d period.
  • (2) The Guardian has asked Facebook to clarify the difference between "share" and "commingle", but has received no reply at press time.
  • (3) The implications of these analytical results in the context of commingling analysis in genetic epidemiology are discussed.
  • (4) Thereafter, it can be viewed as coexistent and commingled with secondary process in dynamic tension, complementarity, and developing complexity.
  • (5) Group I (n = 33) was vaccinated intranasally with an infectious bovine rhinotracheitis virus (IBRV) vaccine on postinoculation day (PID) 0; group II (n = 31) was not vaccinated on PID 0 but was commingled with group I; and group III (n = 33) served as controls housed in the same facility, but was physically separated from groups I and II.
  • (6) In contrast, evidence for commingling does suggest the possibility that a single locus has a major effect on the trait and commingling analysis can provide guidance in the choice of initial parameter estimates for segregation analysis.
  • (7) Commingling analysis was also performed, and our findings imply that there is no evidence for admixture in the distribution of fasting blood glucose in this Israeli population sample.
  • (8) The finding of commingling of distributions for almost all phenotypes is consistent with (but not evidence for) major gene effects.
  • (9) The argument that this was a vote about “economic” issues – since the hated European migrants were not brown or black – is belied by the deliberate commingling of every type of foreigner.
  • (10) For both the Canadian and US samples significant commingling was found in the child's but not the adult's IgE distribution.
  • (11) Based on this commingling analysis, the occurrence of a hyperkinetic state was five-fold as frequent in patients with borderline hypertension than in the normotensive population.
  • (12) In this report, we examine the distributions of these age and sex adjusted variables in a large family study from Québec in terms of evidence for commingling and skewness, and evaluate the inter-relationships among the measures.
  • (13) The microscopic picture of organizing hematoma may be supplemented by the appearance of amorphous polysaccharide masses commingled with iron pigment.
  • (14) A second objective was to determine shrinkage as a result of a 24-h fast immediately after the 21-d study of hogs commingled vs those not commingled for both environmental treatments (CD vs TN).
  • (15) Facebook has clarified alterations to the privacy policy of its newly acquired activity tracker, Moves, explaining the difference between "sharing" and "commingling" of data.
  • (16) While mean IgM levels in females were approximately 25% higher than that in males, the pattern of familial correlations did not follow the expectations under a sex-linked model, and there was no commingling in the distribution of IgM levels as expected when a trait is under the influence of a major gene.
  • (17) Although evidence was not unequivocal, both segregation and commingling analyses provided some support for a major gene influence on TL PST activity, with other variation due to polygenic background.
  • (18) While many users questioned the change in the privacy policy, coming just 11 days after Moves had promised that it had no plans to "commingle data with Facebook", the Facebook spokesman argued that "commingling" data is different from simply "sharing" it.
  • (19) Commingling analysis and segregation analysis were also performed, and our findings imply that in the Israeli population there is no evidence for a major gene for high uric acid levels segregating in families.
  • (20) These ectopic glomerular structures are formed by the commingling of the olfactory axon terminals and the dendrites of brain neurons that lie in their proximity.

Flux


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change.
  • (n.) The setting in of the tide toward the shore, -- the ebb being called the reflux.
  • (n.) The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.
  • (n.) Any substance or mixture used to promote the fusion of metals or minerals, as alkalies, borax, lime, fluorite.
  • (n.) A fluid discharge from the bowels or other part; especially, an excessive and morbid discharge; as, the bloody flux or dysentery. See Bloody flux.
  • (n.) The matter thus discharged.
  • (n.) The quantity of a fluid that crosses a unit area of a given surface in a unit of time.
  • (n.) Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.
  • (v. t.) To affect, or bring to a certain state, by flux.
  • (v. t.) To cause to become fluid; to fuse.
  • (v. t.) To cause a discharge from; to purge.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is concluded that amlodipine reduces myocardial ischemic injury by mechanism(s) that may involve a reduction in myocardial oxygen demand as well as by positively influencing transmembrane Ca2+ fluxes during ischemia and reperfusion.
  • (2) The main finding of this study is that diabetic adolescents with a high erythrocyte Na,Li countertransport rate have an arterial pressure significantly higher than patients with normal Na,Li countertransport fluxes.
  • (3) The role of adrenergic agents in augmenting proximal tubular salt and water flux, was studied in a preparation of freshly isolated rabbit renal proximal tubular cells in suspension.
  • (4) The effect of the peptides on carbachol-induced 22Na+ flux into BC3H-1 cells, which contain nicotinic acetylcholine receptors on their surfaces, was measured.
  • (5) Previous evidence includes changes in Ca2+ fluxes and intracellular activity, membrane potential changes, and effects of ion-channel blockers.
  • (6) The inhibition by DCMU of palmitoylcarnitine oxidation by isolated liver mitochondria was used to calculate a flux control coefficient of the respiratory chain towards gluconeogenesis.
  • (7) Under anaerobic conditions, glycolytic flux was decreased but this did not appear to be the result of inhibition of phosphofructokinase, since the concentrations of both substrates, fructose 6-phosphate and ATP, were decreased.
  • (8) By contrast, there was a rapid exchange of tracer Leu carbon between placenta and fetus resulting in a significant flux of labeled KIC from placenta to fetus.
  • (9) The current work utilizes an empirical relationship between HbO2 saturation measurements and reflected light oximetry, which is consistent with the two-flux theory of Kubelka and Munk (Z.
  • (10) The proportion of L-tryptophan metabolized via the latter flux increased over 10-fold (75% of total tryptophan metabolized) as the concentration of L-tryptophan was raised from 5 x 10(-5) to 5 x 10(-4) M. L-Tryptophan metabolized via the kynureninase flux was less than 5% of total tryptophan metabolized.
  • (11) The momentum flux theory describes such phenomena most appropriately.
  • (12) A state of net secretory fluid flux was induced in isolated jejunal loops in weanling pigs by adding theophylline or cholera toxin to the lumen of the isolated loops.
  • (13) The unidirectional Cl- fluxes may have significant contributions from both the transcellular and paracellular pathways, with the direction of departure from predicted values being consistent with the presence of Cl- exchange diffusion.
  • (14) cAMP decreased the incorporation of choline into phosphatidylcholine, but did not change the flux of metabolites through the step catalyzed by CTP:phosphocholine cytidylyltransferase.
  • (15) This was apparent by standard flux techniques only in low (65 mM) Na solutions, but was readily discernible in normal Na (125 mM) with the "lanthanum-residual" technique.
  • (16) But prealbumin-2, which has lower affinity towards thyroxine, participates mainly in a rapid flux of the free thyroxine pool.
  • (17) In the patients with aplastic anaemia the iron flux was diminished, but never eliminated, demonstrating that the exchangeable compartment was not solely erythroblastic, but included non-erythroid transferrin receptors.
  • (18) Outward Na+ cotransport fluxes significantly rose (p less than 0.05) after acetate hemodialysis and decreased (p less than 0.05) after bicarbonate hemodialysis.
  • (19) This "flux inhibition" was found to depend upon the velocity and the duration of water flow from mucosa to the serosa.
  • (20) In the microsac preparation, the PKC activators (-)-7-octylindolactam V and PMA inhibited the sustained phase of 36Cl- flux without altering the transient phase.