What's the difference between determining and karma?

Determining


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Determine

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This study was undertaken to determine whether the survival of Hispanic patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck was different from that of Anglo-American patients.
  • (2) It is supposed that delta-sleep peptide along with other oligopeptides is one of the factors determining individual animal resistance to emotional stress, which is supported by significant delta-sleep peptide increase in hypothalamus in stable rats.
  • (3) Disease stabilisation was associated with prolonged periods of comparatively high plasma levels of drug, which appeared to be determined primarily by reduced drug clearance.
  • (4) The prenatal risk determined by smoking pregnant woman was studied by a fetal electrocardiogram at different gestational ages.
  • (5) These results indicated that the PG determination was the most accurate predictor of fetal lung well-being prior to birth among the clinical tests so far reported.
  • (6) The nucleotide sequence of a 2.2-kb DNA fragment which contains the complete RAD7 gene was determined.
  • (7) We have determined the genomic structure of the fosB gene and shown that it consists of 4 exons and 3 introns at positions also found in the c-fos gene.
  • (8) We conclude that first-transit and blood-pool techniques are equally accurate methods for determining EF when the time-activity method of analysis is employed.
  • (9) It is quite interesting to analyse which gene of the virus determines the characteristics of the virus.
  • (10) Spectrophotometric determination of the sulfhydryl content in the animal tissue before (control) and after using 6,6'-Dithiodinicotinic acid is applied.
  • (11) We determined whether serological investigations can assist to distinguish between chronic idiopathic autoimmune thrombocytopenia (cAITP) and immune-mediated thrombocytopenia in patients at risk to develop systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE); 82 patients were seen in this institution for the evaluation of immune thrombocytopenia.
  • (12) Quantitative determinations indicate that the amount of PBG-D mRNA is modulated both by the erythroid nature of the tissue and by cell proliferation, probably at the transcriptional level.
  • (13) We report a series of experiments designed to determine if agents and conditions that have been reported to alter sodium reabsorption, Na-K-ATPase activity or cellular structure in the rat distal nephron might also regulate the density or affinity of binding of 3H-metolazone to the putative thiazide receptor in the distal nephron.
  • (14) Complementarity determining regions (CDR) are conserved to different extents, with the first CDR region in all family members being among the most conserved segments of the molecule.
  • (15) Acquired drug resistance to INH, RMP, and EMB can be demonstrated in M. kansasii, and SMX in combination with other agents chosen on the basis of MIC determinations are effective in the treatment of disease caused by RMP-resistant M. kansasii.
  • (16) In animal experiments pharmacological properties of the low molecular weight heparin derivative CY 216 were determined.
  • (17) Using the oocyte system to express size-fractionated mRNA, we have also determined that the mRNA coding for this protein is between 1.9-2.4 kilobases in length.
  • (18) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
  • (19) The procedure used in our laboratory was not able to provide accurate determination of the concentrations of these binding forms.
  • (20) The serum concentration of hyaluronan (HYA) was determined in 59 patients with various myeloproliferative disorders, including 33 patients with idiopathic myelofibrosis.

Karma


Definition:

  • (n.) One's acts considered as fixing one's lot in the future existence. (Theos.) The doctrine of fate as the inflexible result of cause and effect; the theory of inevitable consequence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I happen to know that he’s hanging out with somebody that’s a purely poisonous predator now — and that’s karma,” said the Croz.
  • (2) A few monks came down, and gave a class on karma and why bad things happen to good people, and I found answers I had been looking for.
  • (3) [Belief in] karma makes people submissive; that’s how the country is run.” For Weerasethakul, this issue is no longer simply aesthetic: after the 2014 military coup , it’s one of political urgency.
  • (4) He's a firm believer in karma, and says that after plenty of rough times he's never been happier.
  • (5) It was only quite late in the day that I realised that somebody on my own team had been killed.” That someone was a 34-year-old Sherpa called Pasang Karma Sherpa.
  • (6) Hugh Lanning ( Chair, Palestine Solidarity Campaign), Maxine Peake, Brian Eno, Miriam Margolyes, Ken Loach, Benjamin Zephaniah, Paul Laverty, Ahdaf Soueif, Dr Karma Nabulsi
  • (7) If you are a “dead beat” dad then karma is a cruel mistress.
  • (8) In this case one can expect a greater emphasis on meditation, breathing and cleansing techniques, along with devotional practices such as mantra chanting, tuition in philosophy, and karma yoga (community service).
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Kandi Sherpa, widow of Pasang Karma Sherpa, who was killed in the 2014 avalanche on Everest, beneath portraits of her husband in her home in Nepal.
  • (10) We are treating it as if it’s cultural – we don’t want to offend people – and that is wrong.” Pointing out that numbers of teenage girls disappear every summer from British schools, Sanghera said that Karma Nirvana had recently written to every school in West Yorkshire inviting them to a free educational event, but that only two schools turned up.
  • (11) I wonder, however, how karma will play to a million children, orphaned by Aids?
  • (12) This year they renamed it the Pasang Karma trek and pledged to donate the profits to his widow, Kandi Sherpa and her three children.
  • (13) Karma Nirvana, a charity that supports victims, said its helpline dealt with more than 6,700 calls about forced marriage and honour-based violence last year, with its busiest months during the school holidays.
  • (14) For example: "I hope she has an unfortunate death like Stephen Gately as karma that she deserves for her 'sleazy lifestyle'."
  • (15) It would be just awful karma to throw a party and have somebody die there.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Grace Jones at New York’s Studio 54 nightclub in 1978.
  • (16) I really believe that will happen, I believe in karma and I believe in hard work and I don't believe in like, I don't know."
  • (17) The book's title isn't supposed to suggest feminism ever went away – groups as disparate as Justice for Women, The Fawcett Society, Southall Black Sisters and Karma Nirvana have been working for women's rights for decades now.
  • (18) These are: action (karma), direct perception, emptiness, and dependent arising.
  • (19) Patients currently presenting for treatment of mental disorder may describe their illness with reference to these concepts, but they also rely on other indigenous traditional concepts such as astrology, karma, the effects of other humoral relationships, such as semen loss and so forth; or they may rely on ideas derived from cosmopolitan medicine or both.
  • (20) If the prime minister lasts another two years, it will only be because both men are happy for her to absorb the toxic karma of Brexit negotiations before they make their move.