(n.) Equality of weight or force; an equipoise or a state of rest produced by the mutual counteraction of two or more forces.
(n.) A level position; a just poise or balance in respect to an object, so that it remains firm; equipoise; as, to preserve the equilibrium of the body.
(n.) A balancing of the mind between motives or reasons, with consequent indecision and doubt.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast with oligodendrocytes, [Cl-]i in astrocytes is significantly increased (from 20 to 40 mM) above the equilibrium distribution owing to the activity of an inward directed Cl- pump; this suggests a different mechanism of K+ uptake in these cells.
(2) Although the brain AP50 is prominently phosphorylated by an endogenous protein kinase in isolated coated vesicle preparations, the neuronal AP50 was not detectably phosphorylated in intact cells as assessed by two-dimensional non-equilibrium pH gradient gel electrophoresis of labeled cells dissolved directly in SDS-containing buffers.
(3) Fibroblasts from WHHL rabbits bound little, if any, human LDL, an apo B-containing lipoprotein, in 4 degrees C equilibrium binding experiments.
(4) Analysis of the product by equilibrium density centrifugation and processive hydrolysis with snake venom phosphodiesterase suggested that the noncomplementary nucleotides were present in phosphodiester linkage.
(5) It is shown that, by comparison of a reacting mixture at chemical equilibrium with a non-reacting but equally composed one, the sum of the mean concentrations of the reaction products can immediately be taken from optical absorption or from interferometric measurements.
(6) Equilibrium and kinetic studies of the interaction of gene 32 protein of T4 phage with single-stranded fd DNA were performed monitoring the changes in protein fluorescence.
(7) Equilibrium and kinetic aspects of the binding of several proteins to N-(3-carboxypropionyl)aminodecyl-Sepharose, an amphiphilic ampholytic adsorbent, were studied at 22 degrees C, pH 7.0, I 0.10--0.12.
(8) Ceftriaxone, a cephalosporin, is bound reversibly to defatted human serum albumin from adults, with a first stoichiometric binding constant of 60,000 M-1, as found by equilibrium dialysis at pH 7.4, 37 degrees.
(9) In addition, a redistribution of cellular controls of the host reaction to parasites may act as a complementary mechanism for establishment of the viable equilibrium between host and parasite.
(10) In addition, although aspirin does transfer the acetyl group to hemoglobin both in vitro and in vivo, in our experiments the reaction does not result in any alteration in the oxygen equilibrium of either intact erythrocytes or hemoglobin in solution.
(11) administration the time for distribution in the body amounted to 8 h. The extrapolated initial concentrations in the equilibrium to distribution amounted to 0.68% of the administered dose in the plasma volume, and the theoretical volume of distribution was 5 times the body volume.
(12) This conception of the city as an expression of both regal power and social order, guided by cosmological principles and the pursuit of yin-yang equilibrium, was unlike anything in the western tradition.
(13) A molecular weight of 51,500 was determined from sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, while sedimentation equilibrium ultracentrifugation gave a value of 49,500.
(14) Due to the higher stability constant, of MgCDTA, as compared to MgEDTA, addition of CDTA to a medium containing free Mg2+ and MgEDTA will not only chelate the free Mg2+, but it will also shift the equilibrium from MgEDTA towards MgCDTA, i.e.
(15) At alkaline pH, the Schiff's base equilibrium can be continuously and specifically displaced by reduction in situ with sodium cyanohydridoborate, which on the other hand leaves intact the reacting aldehyde groups of oxidized tRNA.
(16) Scatchard analysis of equilibrium 125I-HA binding to permeabilized hepatocytes in suspension at 4 degrees C indicates a Kd = 1.8 x 10(-7) M and 1.3 x 10(6) molecules of HA (Mr approximately 30,000) bound per cell at saturation.
(17) If the PET measurement is commenced prior to arteriovenous equilibrium, significant errors occur in calculated CBV.
(18) Cells were labeled with [3H]AA for 3 h, followed by a 20-h equilibrium period, then exposed to 10(-8) M PTH for different time periods ranging from 2-60 min.
(19) The equilibrium binding constants for the binary complex formation of eIF-4E-eIF-4A, m7GpppG-eIF-4E, m7GpppG-eIF-4F, globin mRNA-eIF-4E, globin mRNA-eIF-4F, and globin mRNA-eIF-4A were measured by direct fluorescence titration experiments.
(20) To validate the repeated use of radionuclide equilibrium angiography for determining left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction (EF) and end-diastolic and end-systolic volumes (EDV and ESV), 25 patients were studied on an hourly basis an average of 9.1 days after acute myocardial infarction.
Sanity
Definition:
(n.) The condition or quality of being sane; soundness of health of body or mind, especially of the mind; saneness.
Example Sentences:
(1) What the film does, though, is use these incidents to build an idiosyncratic but insightful picture of Lawrence, played indelibly by Peter O'Toole in his debut role: a complicated, egomaniacal and physically masochistic man, at once god-like and all too flawed, with a tenuous grip both on reality and on sanity.
(2) As a result, gaslighting is now used to describe a particular type of mental abuse that makes the victim doubt her – and it is often a her – own sanity, memory and perception.
(3) But the character – compounded of piercing sanity and existential despair, infinite hesitation and impulsive action, self-laceration and observant irony – is so multi-faceted, it is bound to coincide at some point with an actor’s particular gifts.
(4) That has been echoed by the Rally for Sanity's cheerleaders in the media.
(5) We have been in touch for several months now and, right from the start, he has always made it clear he had to do this for his own sanity.
(6) It was concluded that psychiatric cases can commit any form of crime and that where the sanity of a criminal, whatever the type, is doubted, he should be referred for psychiatric evaluation.
(7) They raised the issue of Holmes's sanity , a matter that could be key to avoiding the death penalty.
(8) Tensions have erupted in recent days, after Kentucky senator Rand Paul attributed Trump’s surprise lead in recent opinion polls to a “ temporary loss of sanity ” among Republican primary voters and former Texas governor Rick Perry claimed his impact on the race represented a “ cancer ” on conservatism.
(9) Perhaps this is the best one can hope for, that the voices of sanity prevail.
(10) Monroe, who is also a campaigner on health and poverty issues, said she was taking the decision “for my own sanity and also the safety of my seven-year-old son”.
(11) My colleagues and I do what we can to maintain safety, sanity and self-esteem in an academic environment that is still dominated by old boys’ networks, and we hope that things will improve as more women become established and take on senior roles.
(12) "There are times," Cohn wrote, "when this underworld emerges from the depths and suddenly fascinates, captures and dominates multitudes of usually sane and responsible people who thereupon take leave of sanity and responsibility.
(13) In its leader the Mail calls for a privacy law "fit for the 21st century" and one which will "restore freedom of the press and sanity to the law" .
(14) A factory worker of wobbly sanity (Ryan Reynolds) is implicated in the accidental death of a co-worker.
(15) For my sanity, I felt my only option was also to go "on the run".
(16) Simple but clean and well organised, the 400-bed hospital is a haven of sanity in a sick environment.
(17) The magazine's editorial director, Henry Finder, says drily that Remnick 'has something very scarce in this city: an aura of sanity.
(18) William Langewiesche’s 2014 essay on the crash is one of the best things ever written about automation, and serves as a sanity check of the idea that drivers of autonomous road vehicles could simply intervene in the event of a crash.
(19) Often, when people are creating something new, they end up straddling between sanity and insanity,” said Stefansson.
(20) Many of us are still active on climate, fracking, nuclear and social justice, and all of us know that the battle for sanity hasn’t been won yet.” This article was amended on 26 January 2016 to correct Green party candidate Pippa Pemberton’s election details.