What's the difference between emittent and remittent?
Emittent
Definition:
(a.) Sending forth; emissive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Given Australia’s number one position as the worst carbon emitter per capita among major western nations it seems hardly surprising that islanders from Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and other small island developing states have been turning to Australia with growing exasperation demanding the country demonstrate an appropriate response and responsibility.
(2) Although it is the world's biggest CO2 emitter and notorious for building the equivalent of a 400MW coal-fired power station every three days, it is also erecting 36 wind turbines a day and building a robust new electricity grid to send this power thousands of miles across the country from the deserts of the west to the cities of the east.
(3) But the task remains to move the country's remaining fossil fuel-dependent sectors to clean technology: Iceland's fishing fleet, cars and buses, which run on oil and petrol, ironically make the country one of the highest per head greenhouse gas emitters in Europe .
(4) The feasibility of measuring carbon-14 and tritium in vivo has been demonstrated in the rat; thin scintillation detectors were used for the measurement of bremsstrahlung produced by these soft beta emitters.
(5) Speaker after speaker this week – Chinese academics and international environmentalists alike – have highlighted the concrete steps that the world's biggest emitter is taking to reduce its footprint.
(6) The problem of determining RBE values for Auger emitters incorporated into proliferating mammalian cells is examined.
(7) Monoclonal antibody CO17-1A, which has specificity for colorectal and pancreatic carcinomas, was radiolabeled with the pure beta emitter, 90Y, by either the cyclic diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA) anhydride technique or by a site-specific bifunctional chelate technique using 1-(p-aminobenzyl)DTPA (p-NH2-Bz-DTPA).
(8) A Monte Carlo method has been used to calculate the dose distribution around point gamma-ray emitters in water.
(9) Because of the high stability constant of gallium transferrin, the formation of a protein that will be stable in vivo and labeled with gallium-68 (a positron emitter) requires preliminary coupling of a strong chelating group to the protein.
(10) Other studies show that the occurrence of osteosarcoma in the human long bones correlates well with trabecular surface area and also that, unlike the case of beta-particles from 90Sr+90Y, leukaemia is not a significant consequence of the alpha-particle doses from 226Ra in human bone or from 226Ra, 239Pu and other alpha emitters in beagle bone.
(11) The isotopes 99Tc, the decay product of 99Tcm, and 3H are soft beta-emitter radionuclides and the use of unsealed sources can frequently produce contamination and excessive internal dosing for workers.
(12) The work concerns a feasibility study of a multi-detector system for a prompt evaluation of the 90Sr activity or, at least, a prompt determination of its order of magnitude in the presence of other pure beta and beta-gamma emitters; their interferences are examined on the basis of the Chernobyl releases and their decay properties.
(13) In 1974 the USSR carried out a rat experiment aboard the biosatellite Cosmos-690 equipped with a gamma-emitter.
(14) It is very important for a deal to have the biggest emitter there with a concrete figure which should be legally binding," said Anders Torrson, the Swedish chief negotiator.
(15) Two different, commercially available detection devices are compared, one utilizing an array of infrared light emitters and detectors (infrared device), the other requiring contact with sheets of conductive film (mylar device) but both specifying a location as a set of X-Y coordinates.
(16) Using this method, optimal lead and tungsten collimators for positron emitters were devised; at an object distance of B = 100 mm, these yielded a point-spread function with an FWHMtot = 9.1 mm using an intrinsic resolution of FWHMintr = 8.0 mm.
(17) G7 countries made a similar call at their summit in Germany this year, but the support from China – as a developing country and the world’s biggest emitter – would send an important signal ahead of November’s Paris climate meeting that global economies were moving away from fossil fuels, the campaigners said.
(18) The US government, one of the largest emitters in the country, now has an emissions reduction target of 41.8% from 2008 levels by 2025.
(19) Both respiratory functional morbidity at 18 mo and mortality from radiation pneumonitis within 18 mo after exposure were examined for rats exposed to the beta-emitter 147Pm, the alpha-emitter 238Pu, or both combined.
(20) Feasibility of TS-16N solid state nuclear track detectors for an imaging medium of rapid autoradiography of alpha-emitters is described.
Remittent
Definition:
(a.) Remitting; characterized by remission; having remissions.
Example Sentences:
(1) Complete remissions were relatively short, and 11 of 14 remitters relapsed after 2 to 11 months (median 4 months).
(2) In the postoperative period, he was complicated by remittent fever of 1 month's duration, which was finally controlled by antibiotics.
(3) With global remittances tripling over the past decade and now outstripping official aid, diaspora groups and international NGOs urgently need to find ways of working together more effectively.
(4) High levels of IC in CSF were detected only in the subgroup consisting of the relapsing-remittent patients in disease exacerbation when IC were determined by the C1q-binding test.
(5) More meetings between government officials, banks, remittance companies and NGOs are planned over the coming weeks.
(6) Hormone therapy is indicated in acute forms of disseminated sclerosis and in a remittent development in the stage of exacerbation in the II and III phases.
(7) As the locus of many migrants' investments, the village of Los Pinos has experienced a modest growth in the number of full-time jobs paying somewhat above the minimum urban wage and in a variety of petty entrepreneurial activities depending heavily on the patronage of migrant households, themselves heavily subsidized by remittances.
(8) Their history was not suggestive of a cyclic or remittent pattern of symptoms.
(9) Nearly a third had a remittent (32.8%) or relapsing cumulative (34%) course and 9% had a progressive course from the start.
(10) Remittances by African migrants provide many benefits to African households and governments.
(11) So we also need to be thinking internationally.” He said that included marshalling “everything the private sector has to give”, including overseas remittances by migrant workers, which the World Bank estimates reached $436bn in 2014 , and supporting plans by the Brics countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) to launch a development bank to finance infrastructure projects.
(12) One patient had suffered from severe postpartal hyperbilirubinemia, the other one presented with chronic hemolysis and remittent hyperbilirubinemia.
(13) As gold compounds are effective in treating spontaneous RA in dogs, these proposed actions may not be responsible for the remittive effects of chrysotherapy in this disease.
(14) These unchanging features were not found among the remitters.
(15) High rates of diffuse remittance were found for classical laser wavelengths such as the argon or the Nd:YAG II laser indicating only low rates of absorption.
(16) The government said it was committed to supporting a healthy and legitimate remittance sector while also ensuring a robust anti-money laundering regime.
(17) A drying up of remittance money to Somalia is the last thing the British government needs as it has invested much political effort in putting the country back on its feet.
(18) The opposition had warned, with each stage of the “normalization” – the release on both sides of political prisoners; a deal to allow telecom companies to strengthen the internet on the island and for US banks to do business there; a US agreement to expand remittances and ease travel restrictions – that too many opponents of the Castro regime remain in prisons, or remain sentenced to silence under threat of retribution.
(19) Remittance by mail of blood samples and subsequent time of permanency in mail boxes are not supposed to be best thermic conditions for dried blood samples in paper used for neonatal screening.
(20) Patients with TdT-positive AML had similar median survival (12 versus 10.5 months) and complete remission (CR) rates (53 versus 59%), but a greater frequency of long-term complete responders (60 of complete remitters versus 20%, p = 0.08) than TdT-negative patients.