What's the difference between elves and selves?

Elves


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Elf

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The ratio of ELV values for BSP and dBSP appeared to be related to overall hepatic function, with ratios greater than 1 in the normal dogs and less than 1 in the patients.
  • (2) In the present study, we have determined whether or not left adrenal products are important to the changes induced by ELV and whether or not reflux of left renal vein content occurs in the ELV rat.
  • (3) Additionally, when 85Sr-labelled microspheres were infused into the left renal vein, they did not appear in either left or right testes of ELV animals.
  • (4) These blood flow and temperature changes also occurred when ELV animals were subjected to simultaneous LAX.
  • (5) Maximally (ED100) and half-maximally (ED50) stimulating doses of LH and LHRH were selected from these studies and administered to sham-operated and ELV rats 30 days after the operation to induce ELV.
  • (6) The amino acid sequences of the VPs of ELV and four other tymoviruses align unequivocally and their relationships, as assessed from the percentage of identical residues, correlate well with previously reported serological tests which have shown ELV to be distant from other tymoviruses.
  • (7) On the other hand the equivalent liver volume (ELV) and storage capacity were lower with dBSP.
  • (8) The Scandinavian obsession with elves and fairy folk at Christmas has become entrenched, with elf training schools and forest grottoes springing up in every patch of woodland.
  • (9) The examinations consisted of clinical and laboratory assessment, resting ECG, 24-hour ECG monitoring, X-ray evaluation of cardiac volume (CV), and evaluation of echocardiographic left ventricular shortening (ELVS) and of isotopic ejection fraction (EF).
  • (10) The Lapland New Forest attraction drew criticism back in 2008, with its brawling elves, sad-looking animals and muddy grotto.
  • (11) We love our elves.” We’d said we’d quite like to try cross-country skiing so Björn simply pulls up by the side of the road, straps us into our skis and we set off.
  • (12) It is possible that the previously determined ELV-associated decrease in intratesticular testosterone concentrations is subsequent to a wash-out phenomenon that follows the increased testicular blood flow that also is known to be associated with ELV.
  • (13) These values were similar for right control testicles and left and right testicles of ELV animals.
  • (14) The nucleotide sequence of the genome of erysimum latent tymovirus (ELV) has been determined.
  • (15) ELV was transmissible by Aphis frangulae gossypii, Brevicoryne brassicae, and Myzus persicae neither in short nor in long feeding times.
  • (16) Although its pressure dependence has been recognized, its temporal relationship to ventricular elastance (Elv(t)) has not been established.
  • (17) Elv(t) was derived using an elastance-resistance model of the left ventricle assuming an ejection fraction of 0.50 and a dead volume (Vd) of 3.0 mL.
  • (18) In the first study, testicular blood flow and temperature were studied in control animals and those with ELV, left adrenalectomy (LAX), or ELV + LAX.
  • (19) The results demonstrate that ELV does not alter the blood-testis barrier (BTB) to 3H-inulin (MW 5000), it being largely excluded from entry into the tubule lumen in both control and ELV animals.
  • (20) Back in the 90s, a group of conservative lawyers called “the elves” secretly worked to keep the Paula Jones case alive.

Selves


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Self
  • (n.) pl. of Self.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The implications of qualitative and quantitative differences among love, sex and commitment are discussed in relation to (1) the concept of "multiple selves," (2) "individual variations in threshold levels," and (3) the misuse of "ideal types."
  • (2) AGIs will indeed be capable of self-awareness – but that is because they will be General: they will be capable of awareness of every kind of deep and subtle thing, including their own selves.
  • (3) "Owning" the ageing process instead of fighting it makes it easier to value our older selves, and reclaim – both individually and together – a sense of the lifecycle.
  • (4) Monet, Courbet, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Millet, that boor Cézanne and the even more boorish Picasso and Marinetti (not to mention our own selves, the local boors)."
  • (5) From Shakespeare to Hemingway, the Jew has been assigned a special place in the psyche of the authors here described, reflecting the ongoing cultural bias as it became internalized in the selves of the authors quoted.
  • (6) We used to dream about doing this in our lifetimes, so our 19-year-old selves would probably have been very relieved that we got here.” He adds, reflectively: “It’s true though, I don’t have much of a normal life.
  • (7) But we need to rediscover our inner transcendental selves in everyday life too.
  • (8) Was it just that we were all older and that we were sentimentally loyal to our younger selves, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away?
  • (9) A basic assumption of this article is that there exist other, non-Western varieties of selves and human subjectivities that provide essential information for understanding human psychological and social behavior.
  • (10) Specifically, we examined the consequences of a chronic conflict between two valued selves.
  • (11) Friends were equally keen to leave but too frightened to apply thanks to the previous decade's frequent reversals: "They say one thing, you do it, then they say, 'You guys are going to jail because you have revealed your true selves.'"
  • (12) Other countries have announced similar or deeper emissions cuts, but none have committed them selves by law.
  • (13) Other analysis showed that symptom expectations for "girls in general" were more severe than for selves, though these 2 sets of responses were highly correlated.
  • (14) How their play becomes criminalized and how they’re socialized to become black adults who internalize that their very breathing selves are criminal.
  • (15) We can forgive much about our younger selves, but that question in particular does seem daft, given that the man before me is about to star in probably the year's greatest blockbuster, The Hobbit , reprising – or is "preprising" yet a word?
  • (16) Inpatients with nonbipolar psychotic major depression (N = 46) had significantly lower Hamilton Rating Scale scores at discharge and a significantly greater number of weeks back to their "normal selves" during a 6-month follow-up than did patients with nonpsychotic major depression (N = 159).
  • (17) Our teenage selves who shopped, if we could, at Young Jaeger 40 years ago were telling us something.
  • (18) A week that began with faith in David Moyes disappearing at an alarming rate has ended with United looking more like their old selves, the inclusion of Juan Mata and Shinji Kagawa allowing them to play with a panache that has rarely been evident this season.
  • (19) The patient with cystoïd macular oedema was treated by Hyperbar oxygenotherapy, basing one of selves on the theory ischemia.
  • (20) At one level, this novel is indeed - as Rushdie defensively claimed - "about migration, metamorphosis, divided selves, love, death, London and Bombay".

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