What's the difference between disagreement and variant?

Disagreement


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of disagreeing; a being at variance; dissimilitude; diversity.
  • (n.) Unsuitableness; unadaptedness.
  • (n.) Difference of opinion or sentiment.
  • (n.) A falling out, or controversy; difference.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Although individual IRB chairpersons and oncology investigators may have important differences of opinion concerning the ethics of phase I trials, these disagreements do not represent a widespread area of ethical conflict in clinical research.
  • (2) In spite of this fundamental disagreement, they were both relieved that President Obama has suspended his plan to launch missiles against Syria .
  • (3) Disagreements over the language of the text continued throughout Friday.
  • (4) He had been moved from a civilian prison to the country's intelligence HQ, leading Mansfield to question whether there was a disagreement among Syrian authorities about the fate of Khan.
  • (5) We report the use of a technique for developing guidelines which explicitly seeks to identify areas of agreement and disagreement, and focuses on the reasons that particular decisions were made and the causes of disagreement.
  • (6) Rating disagreements were resolved by a skilled dermatologist who acted as adjudicator.
  • (7) Disagreement in differentiation between simple and complex partial seizures (CPS) probably reflects the limitations of the clinical method rather than of the questionnaire itself.
  • (8) But over the Christmas period the Cahuzac story has continued to dominate headlines as some newspapers suggested Hollande might have a cabinet reshuffle both to detract from the Mediapart allegations and to draw a line under government disagreements over the handling of France's crisis-hit steel industry.
  • (9) The difference in actual withdrawal scores and amount of shared variance between the observer and self-ratings were used as indices of disagreement for each individual subject.
  • (10) Unexpected reactions in disagreement with H-2 genetics were detected in both tumours but not in fibroblast line.
  • (11) Disagreement between observers concerning 11 (11%) of the patients resulted from differences of opinion about whether minor changes in sellar outline represented an abnormality or merely a normal variation.
  • (12) Yes, we can assign more or less responsibility – I blame Austria-Hungary and Germany for their mad determination to destroy Serbia knowing that a general war might result – but there is still plenty of room for disagreement.
  • (13) Consequently, discussion and disagreement about the disease is common and some of these aspects are outlined here.
  • (14) The use of phenylpropanolamine (PPA) as an anorectic has provoked commentary and disagreement.
  • (15) There were 23 disagreements between paired readers resulting in an overall interobserver reliability of 95.7 per cent.
  • (16) Although much more information is being disclosed to cancer patients than in the past, there is still considerable disagreement about how much information should be conveyed.
  • (17) Presently a serious disagreement is brewing between the contested president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , and the speaker of parliament, Ali Larijani, over government subsidies.
  • (18) Disagreements among staff about the appropriateness of clinical decisions can lower staff morale and negatively affect the work environment.
  • (19) The shutdown of oil production over a disagreement on how much South Sudan would pay Sudan for using Khartoum's pipelines threatens to exacerbate conditions in South Sudan, which has some of the worst development indicators in the world, particularly in health and education.
  • (20) Disagreements that did occur tended to involve organisms that were drug susceptible by the Autobac 1 system but intermediate or resistant by the other two methods.

Variant


Definition:

  • (a.) Varying in from, character, or the like; variable; different; diverse.
  • (a.) Changeable; changing; fickle.
  • (n.) Something which differs in form from another thing, though really the same; as, a variant from a type in natural history; a variant of a story or a word.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This particular variant of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by the presence of subcutaneous rheumatoid nodules, scanty or absent systemic manifestations and a clinically benign course.
  • (2) These variants may serve as useful gene markers in alcohol research involving animal model studies with inbred strains in mice.
  • (3) Patients with papillary carcinoma with a good cell-mediated immune response occurred with much lower infiltration of the tumor boundary with lymphocyte whereas the follicular carcinoma less cell-mediated immunity was associated with dense lymphocytic infiltration, suggesting the biological relevance of lymphocytic infiltration may be different for the two histologic variants.
  • (4) Insensitive variants die more slowly than wild type cells, with 10-20% cell death observed within 24 h after addition of dexamethasone.
  • (5) In this study, the role of psychological make-up was assessed as a risk factor in the etiology of vasospasm in variant angina (VA) using the Cornell Medical Index (CMI).
  • (6) Moreover, homozygous deletion of the FMS gene may be an important event in the genesis of the MDS variant 5q- syndrome.
  • (7) The diagnosis of variant- or Prizmetal-angina is difficult because if insufficient specificity of the tests.
  • (8) A variant t-PA (G K1 K2 P), which contained only one of the two fibrin binding sites, i.e.
  • (9) In the DAUDI cell system, the acquired capability of tumor cell variants to grow in the presence of a relatively high concentration of vinblastine (VBL) is associated with a marked increase to NK and LAK susceptibility.
  • (10) An infant with a Sturge-Weber variant syndrome developed progressive megalencephaly and eventual hydrocephalus, which required shunting.
  • (11) Three distinct antigenic regions of bovine somatotropin (bST) were identified on the basis of the ability of a set of monoclonal antibodies to bind to proteolytic fragments and deletion variants of recombinant bST (rbST) in Western blot analyses.
  • (12) Furthermore, they seem to suggest that most cases of cycloid psychosis are not variants of either schizophrenia or major affective disorders.
  • (13) Structurally altered polymorphic variants with reduced activity, such as tetrameric interface mutant Ile-58 to Thr, may produce not only an early selective advantage, through enhanced cytotoxicity of tumor necrosis factor for virus-infected cells, but also detrimental effects from increased mitochondrial oxidative damage, contributing to degenerative conditions, including diabetes, aging, and Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases.
  • (14) A variant of the FitzHugh-Nagumo model is proposed in order to fully make use of the computational properties of intraneuronal dynamics.
  • (15) All four human MBP variants were identical except for the insertion of deletion of two peptide fragments corresponding to those encoded by exons 2 and 5 of the MBP gene.
  • (16) Proliferation of untransformed FDC-PI cells and the emergence of variants with improved adaptation to in vivo conditions appear to be important and possibly necessary steps in the pathogenesis of the disease.
  • (17) The results are discussed with respect to Q phase variants and receptor binding properties.
  • (18) In small cell line NCI-H69 the growth inhibitory effect of VRP alone is greater in the resistant variant than in the parent line.
  • (19) A deficient G-6PD variant was discovered in 4 males of one family from northwestern Germany.
  • (20) Methods of analysis for some deterministic and stochastic variants of the integrate-to-threshold neural coding scheme are presented.