What's the difference between cooperation and synchronization?

Cooperation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of cooperating, or of operating together to one end; joint operation; concurrent effort or labor.
  • (n.) The association of a number of persons for their benefit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Results indicated a .85 probability that Directive Guidance would be followed by Cooperation; a .67 probability that Permissiveness would lead to Noncooperation; and a .97 likelihood that Coerciveness would lead to either Noncooperation or Resistance.
  • (2) Jonker kept sticking his nose in the corner and not really cooperating, but then came a moment of stillness.
  • (3) 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.
  • (4) Unusually high cooperativity, specificity, and multiplicity in the protein kinase C-phospholipid interaction are demonstrated by examining the lipid dependence of enzymatic activity.
  • (5) Cooper, who was briefly a social worker in Los Angeles, also suggests working hard to build a rapport with colleagues in hotdesking situations.
  • (6) In cooperation with scientists in India and Nigeria, the potential yield of protein-deficient foods.
  • (7) It is understood that Cooper rejected pressure from senior Labour figures last week for both her and Liz Kendall to drop out and leave the way clear for Burnham to contest Corbyn alone.
  • (8) Starting from the hypothesis that a new type of cooperativity, dynamic cooperativity, is present in the elementary cycles of the chemo-mechanical conversion, quantitative and consistent agreement was obtained between the theoretical and experimental data on the temperature dependences of the streaming velocity and the ATPase activity, including the presence of the phase transition.
  • (9) "It is really a time for cooperation and unity," he said, adding that recent events had shown the need for Iraqis – Sunni, Shia and Kurds – to work together.
  • (10) p50B is able to form heteromeric kappa B-binding complexes with RelB, as well as with p65 and p50, the two subunits of NF-kappa B. Transient-transfection experiments in embryonal carcinoma cells demonstrate a functional cooperation between p50B and RelB or p65 in transactivation of a reporter plasmid dependent on a kappa B site.
  • (11) The New York Times also alleged that the Met had not passed full details about how many people were victims of the illegal practice to the CPS because it has a history of cooperation with News International titles.
  • (12) Methods used in tracing and improving cooperation of subjects are described.
  • (13) Moreover, it seems that multiple subdomains of the TR beta interact cooperatively to achieve optimal T3 activity.
  • (14) The observed predominance of trimeric over dimeric oligomers even at short times suggests that the thrombin-catalyzed release of the two A fibrinopeptides from a single molecule of fibrinogen is highly cooperative.
  • (15) After treatment of the old rats blood serum with activated charcoal the steroid-binding transcortin capacity and its affinity to hormone was increased and the negative cooperativity was not observed.
  • (16) In this article we analyze the nature of the correspondence computation and derive a cooperative algorithm that implements it.
  • (17) The sigmoidal shape of the curve of rate constant vs mole percent anionic lipid is consistent with a positively cooperative effect of the negative surface charge.
  • (18) Both a voter and Cooper repeatedly asked him if he stood by his comments in the last Republican presidential debate when he insisted that was the case.
  • (19) Early postoperative mobilisation without risks is possible in cooperative patients.
  • (20) The cooperativity constant was shown to decrease with the increase of incubation temperature and the decrease of Mg2+ concentration.

Synchronization


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of synchronizing; concurrence of events in respect to time.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The fluctuations in [Ca2+]i measured with fura-2 were synchronized among the population of cells observed and were sensitive to extracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]o).
  • (2) Histone mRNA, labeled with 32P or 3H-methionine during the S phase of partially synchronized HeLa cells, was isolated from the polyribosomes and purified as a "9S" component by sucrose gradient sedimentation.
  • (3) An experimental model was established in the ewe allowing one to predict with accuracy an antral follicle that coincidentally would either undergo ovulation (6-8 mm diameter) or atresia (3-4 mm diameter) following synchronization of luteal regression and the onset of the gonadotropin surge.
  • (4) By means of rapid planar Hill type antimony-bismuth thermophiles the initial heat liberated by papillary muscles was measured synchronously with developed tension for control (C), pressure-overload (GOP), and hypothyrotic (PTU) rat myocardium (chronic experiments) and after application of 10(-6) M isoproterenol or 200 10(-6) M UDCG-115.
  • (5) As the frequency of the stimulus bursts was progressively changed, the sinoatrial (SA) nodal pacemaker cells became synchronized with the repetitive bursts of stimuli over a certain range of burst frequencies.
  • (6) The analysis suggests that the wave-peak discharge results from synchronous alternation of depolarization potentials and long periods of postsynaptic inhibition in most of the cortical elements.
  • (7) A synchronization of plasma prorenin with the other hormones was seen both before, as previously reported, and during enalapril treatment.
  • (8) 77 per cent of the synchronous tumors were located in the left colon.
  • (9) The spore germination was synchronized by selection of the spores of the definite size and maintenance at a temperature of 0 degrees.
  • (10) The average vlaues of the correlation coefficients were found to increase from arousal through slow synchronized sleep (S sleep), reaching the highest value in REM sleep.
  • (11) A review of 90 patients presenting in Leeds over the period 1976-80 with synchronous hepatic metastases from colorectal cancer has been undertaken.
  • (12) A system for obtaining synchronous germination of mitospores is described.
  • (13) Treatment with 0.3 microM or 0.7 microM BPDE-I, which are doses that interfere with DNA synthesis in operating replicons in asynchronous cells, also inhibited the growth of nascent DNA strands in synchronized cells by 22 and 64%, respectively.
  • (14) Electrographically, the motor phenomena corresponded with the occurrence of periodic synchronous discharges (PSD) (in one-to-one manner).
  • (15) A synchronic increase and decrease of IgG-1 serum levels and indirect fluorescent antibody titres were observed during the course of the infection.
  • (16) Rabbit morulae and blastocysts were cultured in conventional culture media [Ham's F10 or BSM II supplemented with bovine serum albumin (BSA) or serum] or in Ham's medium supplemented with synchronous or asynchronous uterine flushings, mostly for 2 days, and afterwards investigated by light and electron microscopy and by autoradiography.
  • (17) However, a region containing pixels that are perfectly synchronous on average would still yield a finite distribution of calculated Fourier coefficients due to the propagation of stochastic pixel noise into the calculated values.
  • (18) The uterine osteosarcoma is the seventh case reported in the world, while it is the second case of synchronous triple primary tumors of the upper female genital tract.
  • (19) A consequence of periodic clusters of cellular bursts was the widespread occurrence of periodic synchronized synaptic potentials, as have been observed in hippocampal slices and human temporal neocortical slices.
  • (20) This syncitium-like arrangement is interpreted as the morphological counterpart of a possibly synchronized function of these cells.