What's the difference between compliant and yielding?

Compliant


Definition:

  • (a.) Yielding; bending; pliant; submissive.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The 8 men and 3 women were clinically stable, were known to be compliant, and had no clinical evidence of aluminum overload; they were not receiving vitamin D supplements; and they had been on dialysis for an average of 65.6 months (range: 13-188 months).
  • (2) The Russians call it [the Crimea operation] ‘fast power’ – there are no democratic encumbrances, executive power is sovereign, the legislature, the military, the media, the judiciary are compliant.
  • (3) New management at Lifeline changed the expenses policy to make it legally compliant and asked Flowers to pay the money back.
  • (4) "While some lenders were MMR-compliant ahead of the official launch at the end of April, using May data to assess the impact of the new rules is perhaps premature," he said.
  • (5) Increasing deterioration of qualitative PPG values of deep-valve assessment was found in both compliant and noncompliant patients at each testing interval.
  • (6) The lungs of the group treated with thyrotropin-releasing hormone plus steroid and the rabbits treated only with steroid were more compliant than the controls without surfactant therapy, and showed significant improvements in protein leak.
  • (7) With increasing age, the airways were found to be less compliant, and the tracheal relaxation time constant was observed to decrease.
  • (8) Stress reduced the quality of problem solving in both compliant and noncompliant parents, but even under high stress, compliant parents demonstrated better problem-solving abilities than noncompliant parents.
  • (9) In relatively stiff lungs, an even distribution of elastance may increase susceptibility to barotrauma, because the more compliant zones are subjected to a greater strain.
  • (10) It measures the biologic action of treatment among compliant persons.
  • (11) They wanted food, beverages and personal products to be sharia-compliant, but showed more flexibility in products and services such as finance, insurance and travel.
  • (12) All customer letters from DG Solicitors were compliant with the OFT debt recovery rules, and made clear that the firm was a trading name of HSBC and that its people were HSBC employees.
  • (13) That process could see Kenya’s national anti-doping agency being declared non-compliant – although insiders were keen to stress the chances of the country being removed from the Olympics were slim because the International Olympic Committee would need to kick Kenya out.
  • (14) However, although NA is correlated with health compliant scales, it is not strongly or consistently related to actual, long-term health status, and thus will act as a general nuisance factor in health research.
  • (15) A ""steal phenomenon'' or passive collapse in compliant coronary lesions during vasodilatation seems unlikely; in fact, patients were free from coronary symptoms, and the electrocardiographic alterations occurred only in seven patients in Group 2, who had a greater left ventricular mass index and required a larger pressure drop to return the diastolic pressure to normal.
  • (16) (Guardian Australia) Government ads could be outside the guidelines The independent advertising watchdog has warned that some of Labor's pre-election advertising campaigns for its disability and education reforms may not be compliant with the government's own advertising guidelines.
  • (17) It said “terminating a sub-contract agreement is the strongest message we can send to those who are found to be non-compliant”.
  • (18) Pressure-volume curves from nine ferrets (including the above six) revealed almost infinitely compliant chest walls so that lung and total respiratory system curves were essentially the same.
  • (19) Initial measurements of the time-varying wall shear rate at two sites in a compliant cast of a human aortic bifurcation are presented.
  • (20) The Cohen CAD Scale, based on Horney's psychoanalytic theory, measured compliant, aggressive and detached interpersonal orientations.

Yielding


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Yield
  • (a.) Inclined to give way, or comply; flexible; compliant; accommodating; as, a yielding temper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Similar experimental manipulation has yielded in vitro lines established from avian B-cell lymphomas expressing elevated levels of c-myc or v-rel.
  • (2) CT appears to yield important diagnostic contribution to preoperative staging.
  • (3) Increased plasmin activity was associated with advancing stage of lactation and older cows after appropriate adjustments were made for the effects of milk yield and SCC.
  • (4) The data from this experience as well as others previously reported can yield prognostic indicators of survival in cases of accidental hypothermia.
  • (5) Manometric studies with resting cells obtained by growth on each of these sulfur sources yielded net oxygen uptake for all substrates except sulfite and dithionate.
  • (6) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.
  • (7) The extreme quenching of the dioxetane chemiluminescence by both microsomes and phosphatidylcholine, as a model phospholipid, implies that despite the low quantum yield (approx.
  • (8) Gel filtration of the 40,000 rpm supernatant fraction of a homogenate of rat cerebral cortex on a Sepharose 6B column yielded two fractions: fraction II with the "Ca(2+) plus Mg(2+)-dependent" phosphodiesterase activity and fraction III containing its modulator.
  • (9) Yields of Thiobacillus dentrificans on different substrates were compared.
  • (10) Phenotypic relationships were examined between final score and 13 type appraisal traits and first lactation milk yield from 2935 Ayrshire, 3154 Brown Swiss, 13,110 Guernsey, 50,422 Jersey, and 924 Milking Shorthorn records.
  • (11) Binding data for both ligands to the enzyme yielded nonlinear Scatchard plots that analyze in terms of four negatively cooperative binding sites per enzyme tetramer.
  • (12) Fluorination with [18F]acetylhypofluorite yields 6-[18F]fluoro-L-dopa with 95% radiochemical purity; fluorination of the same substrate with [18F]F2 yields a mixture of all three structural isomers in a ratio of 70:16:14 for 6-, 5-, and 2-fluoro compounds.
  • (13) Maximal yields of lipid and aflatoxin were obtained with 30% glucose, whereas mold growth, expressed as dry weight, was maximal when the medium contained 10% glucose.
  • (14) Maximal aberration yields were observed for 2,4-diaminotoluene, 2,6-diaminotoluene and cytosine beta-D-arabinofuranoside from 17 to 21 h, eugenol from 15 to 21 h, cadmium sulfate from 15 to 24 h and 2-aminobiphenyl, from 17 to 24 h. For adriamycin at 1 microM, the % aberrant cells remained elevated throughout the period from 9 to 29 h, while small increases at 0.1 microM ADR were found only at 13 and at 25 h. For most chemicals the maximal aberration yield occurred at a different time for each concentration tested.
  • (15) Since the start of this week, markets have been more cautious, with bond yields in Spain reaching their highest levels in four months on Tuesday amid concern about the scale of the austerity measures being imposed by the government and fears that the country might need a bailout.
  • (16) A leg ulcer in a 52-year-old renal transplant patient yielded foamy histiocytes containing acid-fast bacilli subsequently identified as a Runyon group III Mycobacterium.
  • (17) Milk yield and litter weights were similar but backfat thickness (BF) was greater in 22 C sows (P less than .05) compared to 30 C sows.
  • (18) Five derivatives of 2-(3-aminopropionyl)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-beta-carboline (2a-e) were obtained, which yielded, as a result of reduction with LiAlH4, five respective 2-aminopropyl-derivatives (3a-e).
  • (19) Thus there may be four types of LPS in PACI: one contains unsubstituted core polysaccharide and yields L2 on acid hydrolysis, another has short antigenic side-chains of the SR type and yields the LI fraction, while the two high molecular weight fractions are derived from core polysaccharides with different side-chains.
  • (20) Abruptly changing cows from one feeding system to another did not influence milk yield, milk composition, or body weight gain.