What's the difference between coordinate and locus?

Coordinate


Definition:

  • (a.) Equal in rank or order; not subordinate.
  • (v. t.) To make coordinate; to put in the same order or rank; as, to coordinate ideas in classification.
  • (v. t.) To give a common action, movement, or condition to; to regulate and combine so as to produce harmonious action; to adjust; to harmonize; as, to coordinate muscular movements.
  • (n.) A thing of the same rank with another thing; one two or more persons or things of equal rank, authority, or importance.
  • (n.) Lines, or other elements of reference, by means of which the position of any point, as of a curve, is defined with respect to certain fixed lines, or planes, called coordinate axes and coordinate planes. See Abscissa.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An efficient numerical algorithm based on the cyclic coordinate search method to solve the latter is explained.
  • (2) The Test of Motor Impairment (TOMI) was used to select 12 children with a Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) and 12 age-matched controls.
  • (3) By using these methods, it was clearly indicated that these factors such as TDF of rectum, Z-coordinate of weighted geometric center (WGC-Z), the dose of whole pelvic irradiation, history of chemotherapy and Treponema pallidum hemoagglutination test (TPHA) were important for occurrence of rectal complication.
  • (4) The surge the prime minister talks about can only be achieved by coordinating assets across 43 forces.
  • (5) Guidelines are presented for pharmacist coordination of the importation for use by institutionalized patients of drugs not currently approved by the FDA.
  • (6) Furthermore, non-coordinate expression of DR and DQW1 was present in 8 out of 40 carcinomas, with the proportion of DQW1 positive epithelium always being less than that of DR. Carcinomas exhibiting non-coordinate expression were never well differentiated; there was no relationship with the extent of the inflammatory infiltrate.
  • (7) During well-coordinated neurological and psychiatric treatment the laughing seizures (spontaneous, event-related, psychogenic) decreased and a considerable improvement in psychiatric and psychosocial problems was attained.
  • (8) This process may be achieved by co-ordinated synthesis and translation of new mRNA or gradual accumulation of constitutively synthesized mRNA, followed by coordinated translational activation.
  • (9) Since PDE alpha was not reduced, this suggests that synthesis of PDE alpha and PDE beta may not be coordinately controlled.
  • (10) According to the resolution of the national coordinative conference, 1098 cases with extrahepatic biliary cancer, from 1977, January to 1989, April were collected by over 40 hospitals and coordinative groups throughout the country.
  • (11) Transfer of nonprofessional tasks out of nursing and reduction of tension arising from reduced responsibility of nurses for coordinating activities with ancillary departments are possible explanations for the positive relation between the presence of SUM and professional nurses' satisfaction.
  • (12) A nearly identical mapping pattern is obtained with the coordinately regulated GAL7 promoter.
  • (13) A sound source is commonly spherical, therefore solutions are found for the wave equation in spherical coordinates, giving a precise meaning to the 'azimuthal' and 'magnetic quantum number' analogy.
  • (14) Office procedures include selecting an office coordinator, ensuring a smoke-free office, establishing a mechanism to identify and monitor patients who smoke, and involving the office staff in intervention and follow-up.
  • (15) Stereo cineradiography in the late postoperative period (mean, 52 days after surgery) allowed computer-aided measurements of the three-dimensional coordinates of multiple sites in anterior, inferior, lateral, and septal LV regions at 16.7-msec intervals throughout the cardiac cycle.
  • (16) Based on the refined atomic coordinates of the tRNAphe in the orthorhombic crystal, on the recent advances in the distance dependence of the ring-current magnetic field effects and on the adopted values for the isolated hydrogen-bonded NH resonances, a computed spectrum consisting of 23 protons was constructed.
  • (17) This mechanism, which is activated by changes in culture density, coordinately regulates the activities of HMG-CoA reductase and acyl-CoA:cholesterol acyltransferase (ACAT).
  • (18) A number of the complexes showed potent cytotoxic activity in vitro and antitumor activity in vivo, with the phosphine-coordinated gold(I) thiosugar complexes demonstrating the greatest in vitro and in vivo activity.
  • (19) Many of the limitations of conventional diagnostic arthroscopy of the knee have been largely overcome through the development of techniques that permit manipulation of intra-articular structures through paired, coordinated entry sites.
  • (20) Utilizing the known atomic coordinates of the chromophores (Schirmer, T., Bode, W. and Huber, R. (1987) J. Mol.

Locus


Definition:

  • (n.) A place; a locality.
  • (n.) The line traced by a point which varies its position according to some determinate law; the surface described by a point or line that moves according to a given law.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The fine structure of neurofibrillary tangles in the hippocampal gyrus, substantia nigra, pontine nuclei and locus coeruleus of the brain was postmortem studied in a case of progressive supranuclear palsy.
  • (2) Large gender differences were found in the correlations between the RAS, CR, run frequency, and run duration with the personality, mood, and locus of control scores.
  • (3) 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.
  • (4) The Notch locus in Drosophila encodes a transmembrane protein required for the determination of cell fate in ectodermal cells.
  • (5) The second protein could represent either an allozymic form of the enzyme or the product of a distinct locus.
  • (6) The availability of locus-specific probes should significantly expand the role of minisatellite markers in population biology.
  • (7) The effects of clozapine on the spontaneous firing rate of noradrenergic (NE, locus coeruleus), dopaminergic (DA, zona compacta, ventral tegmental area) and non-dopaminergic (zona reticulata) neurons was studied in chloral hydrate anesthetized rats.
  • (8) Twenty-nine deletion breakpoints were mapped in 220 kb of the DXS164 locus relative to potential exons of the Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy gene.
  • (9) Mice homozygous for mutations at either locus exhibit several phenotypic abnormalities including a virtual absence of mast cells.
  • (10) These data suggest that increased TNF production may be responsible for endotoxin hypersensitivity in TCDD-treated mice and that the Ah locus mediates this response.
  • (11) (3) Two RFLP defined patterns of the DQA1 locus, DQA1.5 (DQA1*0501) and DQA1.8 (DQA1*0401, *0601) are strongly associated with the disease.
  • (12) Interspecific hybridization between sexual species carrying different b-alleles and producing different B subunits may be responsible for the heterozygosity at the lactate dehydrogenase b-locus in diploid parthenogenetic Cnemidophours.
  • (13) These findings are consistent with reports that implicate the PYK locus in yeast cell cycle control and suggest that it may be challenging to model relations between fitness and activity for multifunctional proteins.
  • (14) Evidence for a third locus, ENO3, is supplied by the electrophoretic pattern of muscle extracts.
  • (15) The data indicate that the locus for the alpha chain of the T-cell receptor is split by the chromosomal breakpoint between the V alpha and the C alpha gene segments, and that the V alpha segments are proximal to the C alpha segment within chromosome band 14q11.2.
  • (16) The new scale appears to be a more sensitive measure of locus of control than Rotter's scale.
  • (17) Incomplete penetrance of the simpler pattern suggests that this genetic locus interacts in a probabilistic manner with epigenetic mechanisms involved in morphogenesis of the cerebellum.
  • (18) Proposed models for the inheritance of locus-specific methylation phenotypes in somatic cells include those in which there is stable inheritance of a methylation pattern such that all cells contain a similarly methylated locus, as well as models in which the inheritance of methylation can be variable.
  • (19) Extensive LSR data were obtained as a by-product of specific-locus experiments.
  • (20) The deficits noted in the granule cells of the dentate gyrus in this study were more severe than those found in our previous studies on the effect of the low protein diet in these same rats on visual cortical pyramidal cells and on the 3 cell types in the nucleus raphe dorsalis and nucleus locus coeruleus.