What's the difference between erd and nerd?

Erd


Definition:

  • (n.) The earth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By assuming that repopulation of late-responding tissues is insignificant during normal treatment regimes it is possible to use the method to assess the broader implications for treatment strategies in terms of the behaviour of the Extrapolated Response Dose (ERD).
  • (2) Preceding or during movement, maximum ERD was observed in most cases in central-vertex regions.
  • (3) In the prostate, however, hCG treatment neither changed AHH and 7-ERDE activities nor the concentration of the microsomal cytochrome P-450.
  • (4) In comparisons with earlier studies on adult liver and placental microsomes, the present results with fetal liver suggest that there are differences in cytochrome P-450-associated ERDE and AHH activities between these tissues, which might be due to different tissue-specific isoenzyme patterns.
  • (5) Both prestimulus level of alpha power and relative ERD were asymmetrically distributed over the left and right hemispheres.
  • (6) The first, with large VEP amplitude, having at the same time large ERD, and the second, with small VEP amplitude and small ERD.
  • (7) Statistical comparison of ERD maps for accurate and inaccurate movement (Wilcoxon test) resulted in significant differences for the right parietal region prior to movement onset, with a larger ERD before accurate movement.
  • (8) The addition of NDGA to epidermal microsomes prepared from control and 3-methylcholanthrene (3-MC)-pretreated rats and hepatic microsomal preparations from control, 3-MC-pretreated, and phenobarbital (PB)-pretreated rats resulted in a concentration-dependent inhibition of aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase (AHH) and 7-ethoxyresorufin O-deethylase (ERD) activities.
  • (9) The contribution of induction by cigarette smoking to the variability of ERDE inhibition by MAb 1-7-1 remained unclear.
  • (10) It also seems that isozymes for alcohol induction or debrisoquine hydroxylation do not contribute significantly to hepatic or placental AHH or ERDE.
  • (11) Treatment results in terms of survival, local disease-free survival and complication rates were compared with cumulative radiation effect (CRE) and extrapolated response dose (ERD) values for point A (CRETA and ERDTA respectively) and for rectum (CRETr and ERDTr respectively).
  • (12) The outer circumpulpal dentin layer of the enamel-related dentin (ERD) was considerably harder and denser than the comparable layer of the cementum-related dentin (CRD).
  • (13) 7-Ethoxycoumarin O-deethylase (7-ECD), 7-ethoxyresorufin O-deethylase (7-ERD), and 7-pentoxyresorufin O-deethylase (7-PRD) activities were monitored by fluorescent detection of their products.
  • (14) For the sake of Rolling Stone’s reputation, Sabrina Rubin Erdely had better be the country’s greatest judge of character,” the Washington Post’s media critic, Erik Wemple, wrote on Tuesday .
  • (15) Along with this 10 Hz ERD a localized and short-lasting (about 0.5 s) burst of 40 Hz oscillations was embedded around movement onset.
  • (16) Biochemical data are also presented that establish that erd, unlike rcd1 and rcd2, is not associated with abnormal metabolism of retinal cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cyclic GMP).
  • (17) Irish setters affected with rod-cone dysplasia type 1 (rcd1) were bred to Norwegian elkhounds affected with early retinal degeneration (erd).
  • (18) The EEG was analysed in the 10 Hz band (10-12 Hz) and in four 40 Hz bands (34-36, 36-38, 38-40, 40-42) by calculation of ERD time courses and ERD maps, whereby a ERD is characterized by a movement-related band power decrease.
  • (19) Indicators on chest X ray of high risk of ERD were the presence of more than 10 opacities, extensive opacification of lung fields, size of metastases, and hazy background obscuring the vascular pattern.
  • (20) Furthermore, while the type of inhibition of the hepatic ERDE was competitive or mixed, that of the placental enzyme cannot be described in ordinary terms of inhibition kinetics.

Nerd


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The nerd may have been more in evidence early on - not least when he was doing his doctorate and ignored the advice of his Nobel prize-winning supervisor, Nikolaas Tinbergen, and opted for a stats fest, "a classic piece of Popperian science", instead of a fluffier study of animal behaviour - but it's still around.
  • (2) Last, and this is just a hunch as a career-long only-digital nerd: perhaps after more than a decade of digital influx, people are yearning a bit more for the physical, the tangible object, the easy-to-understand.
  • (3) On 5th Gear, from 2007, he talked about internet nerds reinventing themselves through social media, and offered an intentionally redneck perspective on the battle of the sexes in the deliberately gauche I'm Still a Guy.
  • (4) But isn't there a bit of him that wants to gloat; to tell all the kids who thought he was a nerd that he's now this babe magnet, this sex god, this… And now he really is flushed and flustered.
  • (5) This target audience includes not just those young people taking part in state-sponsored sports and defence training or patriotic youth groups, but also nerds who love western videogames and superheroes.
  • (6) "I'm a nerd who likes to keep his private life private," he said.
  • (7) Whereas Crow tended to rely on his rhetoric and his street-fighter smarts, Whelan is more of a data nerd – part barrow boy, part actuary.
  • (8) By the time kids are filling out Ucas forms or heading off to find a living, "computer stuff" has usually been relegated to the otherworldly realm of nerds.
  • (9) There was already a perception that Ed Miliband was too geeky, too much of an unworldly politics nerd, to have a realistic chance of power.
  • (10) Worldly-wise but digi-ignorant, the Vaughn-Wilson jock explosion throw in their lot with the socially maladjusted nerdly-wise virgins and soon enough, with the help of code-writing lessons for the oldies and lap dances for the virgin-geeks, they all learn to get along.
  • (11) And it would be nothing short of condescending for screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and director David Fincher to have concocted some fictional spunky-girl nerd character or a wise female comp sci professor in an attempt to make their film more female-friendly.
  • (12) "Adam had this typical nerd look: belts, tucked-in shirt.
  • (13) There are duelling nerds in sports jackets and a panicky associate producer (inevitably and infuriatingly female) who is smarter than her ditzy persona would have you believe.
  • (14) 2.16pm BST Moyes music I'm something of a music nerd, so do keep the suggestions for Dave's iPod coming.
  • (15) "Really in those early days the web was just for nerds like me, if you wanted some tech advice or needed to find out how to do something.
  • (16) And for those who think interplanetary exploration is just nonsense for space nerds, the same lessons could surely be applied closer to home.
  • (17) So then I grew up and I stopped taking nerd-drugs, and about the same time, Starbucks opened in the UK, whereupon I took to getting double espressos, except they were never big enough.
  • (18) The open source community are geeks and nerds and they created the current inequality in technology.'
  • (19) June 18, 2014 2.13pm BST Paul Doyle has spent the last few hours in a dark corner of the office, nerding it up on Mexico goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa.
  • (20) His conclusion is a call to arms: "We need some angry nerds" – people capable of breaking out of the walled gardens.

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