What's the difference between emissivity and propensity?

Emissivity


Definition:

  • (n.) Tendency to emission; comparative facility of emission, or rate at which emission takes place, as of heat from the surface of a heated body.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The assembly reaction is accompanied by characteristic changes in fluorescence emission and dichroic absorption.
  • (2) In London, diesel emissions are now so bad that on several days earlier this summer, children, older people and vulnerable adults were warned not to venture outside .
  • (3) "It has done so much to educate people about low emissions cars.
  • (4) Large emission intensity fluctuations are observed from analyte species in inductively coupled plasmas.
  • (5) They argue that the US, the world's largest producer of greenhouse gases per capita (China recently surpassed us in sheer volume), needs to lead the fight to limit carbon emissions, rather continuing to block global treaties as it has done in the past.
  • (6) The spatial resolution of a NaI(T1), 25 mm thick bar detector designed for use in positron emission tomography has been studied.
  • (7) The optical efficiencies are similar and depend on the match of the excitation characteristics of the stain with the emission spectra of the light source.
  • (8) At our current rate, which is 10 gigatons of carbon a year, we have 27 years left, after which time carbon emissions would need to cease.
  • (9) The behavior and effects of atmospheric emissions in soils and plants are discussed.
  • (10) Several images of cerebral blood flow were recorded during inhalation of carbon-15-labelled carbon dioxide by positron emission tomography in four patients with essential tremor and four normal controls.
  • (11) The statistics underline the significant strides being taken by the industry to meet a government drive to reduce Britain's carbon emissions, although the scale of renewable energy subsidies remains controversial.
  • (12) The present analysis concentrates on the utilization of low-energy proton accelerators of several hundred kilovolts for particle-induced X-ray emission microanalysis.
  • (13) A fortnight ago the two countries signed a US$27 million deal to tackle deforestation on the island of Sumatra - a key problem in Indonesia where 80 per cent of emissions come from deforestation, both by legal and illegal loggers.
  • (14) The agreement, hailed as a "landmark" deal and a breakthrough by politicians and the green lobby alike, came before a crucial EU summit opening in Brussels tomorrow at which 27 prime ministers and presidents are supposed to finalise an ambitious package to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020.
  • (15) Fluorescence (excitation 360 nm, emission 454 nm) generation in glycated albumin was investigated.
  • (16) Results obtained from a such study are here compared with levels obtained from a comparative determination of the metals in the mosses by three other techniques: Differential pulse anodic stripping voltammetry (DPASV), Direct current plasma (atomic emission) spectroscopy (DCPS) and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectroscopy.
  • (17) Speaking at The Carbon Show in London today, Philippe Chauvancy, director at climate exchange BlueNext, said that the announcement last week that it is to develop China's first standard for voluntary emission reduction projects alongside the government-backed China Beijing Environmental Exchange, could lay the foundations for a voluntary cap-and-trade scheme.
  • (18) 94 subjects, 64 with cerebral ischemia of varying severity and outcome, and 30 controls were studied with technetium-99m hexamethyl propylenamino oxime single photon emission computed tomography in order to evaluate the suitability of this technique in the assessment of cerebral ischemia.
  • (19) Pyridinoline was isolated from the cross-linked peptide by preparative amino acid analysis and reversed-phase HPLC and identified by its ultraviolet absorption spectra, its fluorescence excitation and emission spectra and, for the first time, its time-of-flight secondary ion-mass spectrum.
  • (20) In the US, electricity accounts for 39% of emissions – and 75% of that is contributed by coal.

Propensity


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being propense; natural inclination; disposition to do good or evil; bias; bent; tendency.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fractures which occur near the base of the dens have a low propensity to unite spontaneously.
  • (2) There was also no significant correlation when prognostic factors were compared to uptake in the individual organ systems except that T cell disease was associated with a significantly greater propensity for lymph node uptake.
  • (3) Three strains of C. burnetii were studied because of the purported propensity of each strain to cause acute or chronic disease and to be resistant or susceptible to antibiotics.
  • (4) Thus, an abnormality of neutrophil oxidative metabolism cannot explain the propensity to bacterial infections in sickle cell disease.
  • (5) The stroma has a propensity to accumulate fluid and to create macroscopic cystic spaces.
  • (6) Myelography and cytology studies are necessary in the evaluation of all newly diagnosed patients with medulloblastoma and may also be indicated for patients with other brain tumors with a known propensity for dissemination.
  • (7) Where UV radiation is restricted, individual propensity to rickets within a given Asian community is mainly determined by dietary factors.
  • (8) The polymorphisms seen could provide useful linkage markers in locating the chromosomal sites of the genetic loci responsible for raised blood pressure in the SHR and the propensity to strokes in the SHRSP.
  • (9) A propensity for elevated shear in the deep cartilage layer near the contact periphery, observed in nearly all computed stress distributions, is consistent with previous experimental findings of fissuring at that level in the impulsively loaded rabbit knee.
  • (10) The propensity for narcolepsy, a clinical sleep disorder of unknown etiology, is virtually totally included within the HLA-DR2,DQw1 (DRw15,DQw6) phenotype.
  • (11) Patients with well-differentiated adenosquamous carcinoma persisted in having a worse prognosis (58.3% ten-year survival rate), compared with adenocarcinoma (84.3% ten-year survival rate), which was explained by the propensity of adenosquamous carcinoma to deeply invade the myometrium.
  • (12) College students completed a 17-item scale measuring the "propensity to argue controversial topics" and 7 other nominal-scale independent variables.
  • (13) Mating propensity in eight all-female laboratory lines was measured.
  • (14) In assortative mating systems modifiers favoring reduced assortment propensities tend to increase.
  • (15) However, CGS 19755 did not show a unique propensity for learning and memory disruption compared to other anticonvulsants.
  • (16) The results of ecological studies appear to be more consistent that those dealing with "specific" psychosomatic disorders and suggest that man has a general psychophysical propensity to disease.
  • (17) The propensity for specific fragmentation of peptide D seems to be correlated to the repetitive sequence, (Gly-Ser)2.
  • (18) This work clearly demonstrates the greater propensity of trans-dichlorodiammineplatinum(II) to form histone-histone and histone-DNA crosslinks compared with the antitumor active cis isomer, which binds first to the DNA and only forms crosslinks to the histones when the nucleosome core is heavily loaded with platinum.
  • (19) The rapid progression of disease, the high incidence of micrometastases (over 80%) at diagnosis, and the propensity of hematogenous spread to the bone marrow and the central nervous system (CNS) as well as the clinico-pathologic 'clusters' associated with particular presenting sites distinguish the pediatric forms of disease.
  • (20) Slower ventricular rates during atrial fibrillation would suggest an increased propensity for concealed conduction in the enhanced AV node conduction group than in the group with an accessory pathway.

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