What's the difference between coupled and coupler?
Coupled
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Couple
Example Sentences:
(1) Spermine clearly activated 45Ca uptake by coupled mitochondria, but had no effect on Ca2+ egress from mitochondria previously loaded with 45Ca.
(2) After transfection in CH4C1 cells the two isoforms are coupled with adenylate cyclase while only the shortest isoform appears negatively coupled to phospholipase C. Functional D2 dopamine receptors are present in human prolactinomas.
(3) Ferrocene derivatives, in general, show a degree of versatility, coupling the electron-transfer reactions of many enzymes.
(4) Since intracellular Ca2+ seems to play a role in stimulus-secretion coupling and ion movements, several aspects of Ca2+ homeostasis have been investigated in CF.
(5) Couples in need of help will be "encouraged" to come to a private agreement.
(6) To get a better understanding of the different cell interactions during the immune response to a hapten-carrier complex, the effects of immunogenic or tolerogenic injections of various hapten-containing compounds on the responses induced by immunization with the same hapten coupled to protein carriers were studied.
(7) Such a science puts men in a couple of scientific laws and suppresses the moment of active doing (accepting or refusing) as a sufficient preassumption of reality.
(8) In contrast, strains carrying the substitutions Ile-30----Phe, Gly-33----Leu, Gly-58----Leu, and Lys-34----Val and the Lys-34----Val, Glu-37----Gln double substitution were found to possess a coupled phenotype similar to that of the wild type.
(9) Couples applying to in vitro fertilization were admitted into this project when the sperm concentration was greater than 20 million per mL and motility greater than 30 per cent.
(10) Large emission intensity fluctuations are observed from analyte species in inductively coupled plasmas.
(11) At the weekend the couple’s daughter, Holly Graham, 29, expressed frustration at the lack of information coming from the Foreign Office and the tour operator that her parents travelled with.
(12) These results coupled with previous studies support activation of benz[j]aceanthrylene via both 2 and cyclopenta ring epoxidation.
(13) Homologous insemination in 52 couples during a period of one year yields a conception rate of 38.5%.
(14) Following the hypothesis that infertile patients may present emotional conflicts with regard to the wish of having a child, psychodynamic interviews were carried out with 116 infertile couples concomitantly with their first consultation at the Sterility Department.
(15) The objective of this work was to determine the efficacy of an endoscopic approach coupled to a Nd:YAG laser fiber in performing arytenoidectomy.
(16) During the couple's 30-year marriage she had twice reported him to the police for grabbing her by the throat, before they divorced in 2005.
(17) The rate of indole production is increased about 4-fold when the aminoacrylate produced is converted to S-(hydroxyethyl)-L-cysteine by a coupled beta-replacement reaction with beta-mercaptoethanol.
(18) Single injections never produced more than one coupled pair in P20 or older rats.
(19) The extensive conversion of anti-BPDE to B[a]PT-10-sulfonate under conditions where sulfite enhances diolepoxide mutagenicity, when coupled with this enhancement of diolepoxide mutagenicity by B[a]PT-10-sulfonate in the reverse mutation assay, supports this novel B[a]P derivative as a mediator of the sulfite-dependent enhancement of B[a]P genotoxicity.
(20) Bobbing in warming waters, this ancient ice fossil will be gone in a couple of weeks.
Coupler
Definition:
(n.) One who couples; that which couples, as a link, ring, or shackle, to connect cars.
Example Sentences:
(1) Each measurement was repeated on subsequent days and the hearing aid gain was also determined in several couplers and on KEMAR.
(2) The purpose of this study was to compare the acoustic output of three commonly available couplers and to study the intra- and inter-examiner reliability with which those measurements may be performed.
(3) Full-on coupler gain curves were similar across all nine hearing aids.
(4) An estimate of ear-canal volume did not appear to be a clinically useful predictor of real ear to coupler differences.
(5) A correction for custom in-the-ear nondirectional hearing aids is obtained for converting a frequency response measured using a 2 cm3 coupler to an insertion response, approximating that measured using a manikin and ear simulator.
(6) The mean data from the five studies are typically within 1 dB of the provisional reference threshold SPLs given by the ER-3A manufacturer for calibration in a (HA-1) 2-cc coupler.
(7) Large interindividual differences were found between functional gain and the 2-cc coupler measurements.
(8) Measurements of mechanical coupler performance have been made over the temperature range 13 degrees C to 33 degrees C to investigate the change of force sensitivity level and mechanical impedance level with temperature for frequencies in the range 125 Hz to 5000 Hz.
(9) The results are expressed as mean sound pressure levels measured on a 2 cm3 coupler according to IEC 126 as well as on an ear simulator according to IEC 711.
(10) Biomechanical advances have centered on an understanding of the load-sharing properties afforded by the multiple spinal purchase sites (segmental spinal instrumentation) and the value of two-rod systems linked by couplers.
(11) Further development of the coupler resulted in considerable increase of its fragmentation capability with no increase in side-effects.
(12) Therefore it is desirable that any departure from coupler response be known.
(13) Most of the aids showed a distinct correlation between coupler-related overall gain, and mould compliance.
(14) Acoustic reflex thresholds were clearly present in all testable infants at coupler sound pressure levels similar to adult data, suggesting that the relations between reflex thresholds and hearing sensitivity demonstrated in adult subjects are similarly applicable to infant subjects.
(15) When the temperature of the bone vibrators was 17 and 29 degrees C and the mechanical couplers were maintained at a constant temperature, there were little or no differences in the output of the mechanical couplers.
(16) Changes in the strength-duration curve could be accounted for by an increase in the time constant for build-up of a hypothetical coupler in the e.-c. coupling process.
(17) The relationship between these measures in the real ear canal and the changes observed in 2-cm3 and Zwislocki couplers under similar circumstances or earmold modification was also measured.
(18) We measured TRAcP-activity fluorometrically after extraction of the product naphthol-AS-BI, using the same staining solution as in cytochemical method, but without the coupler.
(19) Five frequency responses were used, two of them were defined by their response in a 2-cm3 coupler: 1) uniform coupler gain (UCG), and 2) 6 dB per rise (6 dB).
(20) The effect of hyperosmolarity was shown only in cells stimulated by lipolytic hormones, and the effects were still evident in the presence of high concentrations of theophylline, indicating the effect of hyperosmolarity is to facilitate hormone action on the receptor-coupler system of the adipocyte membrane.