What's the difference between favourable and optimal?

Favourable


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Example Sentences:

  • (1) But RWE admitted it had often only been able to retain customers with expired contracts by offering them new deals with more favourable conditions.
  • (2) In patients with less favourable disease status the 2-year overall and DFS were 73% and 50% respectively.
  • (3) Breast reconstruction should not be limited to the requiring patients, but should represent, in selected cases with favourable prognosis, an integrative and complementary procedure of the treatment.
  • (4) In the 12 prognostically most favourable ears the cavity was repneumatized.
  • (5) The favourable properties of one of these agents - n-butyl 2-cyanoacrylate are presented by authors.
  • (6) In a poll before the debate, 48% predicted that Merkel, who will become Europe's longest serving leader if re-elected on 22 September, would emerge as the winner of the US-style debate, while 26% favoured Steinbruck, a former finance minister who is known for his quick-wit and rhetorical skills, but sometimes comes across as arrogant.
  • (7) The data obtained give evidence in favour of reflexometry to be used for early prognostic assessment of post-operative hypothyrosis.
  • (8) It’s gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, social background, and – most important of all, as far as I’m concerned – diversity of thought.” Diversity needs action beyond the Oscars | Letters Read more He may have provided the Richard Littlejohn wishlist from hell – you know the one, about the one-legged black lesbian in a hijab favoured by the politically correct – but as a Hollywood A-lister, the joke’s no longer on him.
  • (9) This may be a reason of favourable results in experimental chemotherapy with CGP 9000.
  • (10) The fetal monitoring (electronical and gasanalytical) is able to acknowledge in due time a hypoxic situation and procures favourable to the perinatal morbidity.
  • (11) The effect of the combined therapy within 4 months was favourable in 75% of the cases versus 100% in the group treated with larger doses of 13-cis-retinoic acid.
  • (12) In conclusion, although the dietary pattern in our area favours a good iron bioavailability, in our population the nutritional intake was shown to have a limited relationship with the parameters of biochemical iron status parameters.
  • (13) "I have to say that I have been a Chelsea player since 2004 and I have never had six minutes in my favour when I was losing.
  • (14) A relationship with Mentrier's disease had been suggested but not confirmed because of the rapid favourable outcome after a simple low protein diet.
  • (15) The sluggish flow which results from this vasoconstriction and high venous pressure leads to a haemoconcentration which reduces oedema formation but favours leucocyte and platelet sequestration within the microcirculation.
  • (16) Nevertheless the difference was too little to suggest abandoning one treatment in favour of the others.
  • (17) But Berlusconi and Sarkozy, seeking to curry favour with the strong far-right constituencies in both countries, sought to bury their differences by urging the rest of Europe to buy into their anti-immigration agenda.
  • (18) These results favour the idea that the factor present in peak II fraction might behave as an ouabain-like substance.
  • (19) Thus, the dental health and dietary habits of the Greek immigrant and the Swedish children were generally very similar, while the Greek rural children showed a less favourable cariological status.
  • (20) It is suggested that during increased levels of extracellular adenosine the response of LGND relay neurones to activating brainstem influences will be depressed, and a pattern of Ca(2+)-mediated burst firing will be favoured.

Optimal


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The optimal size for stimulation was between 5 degrees and 12 degrees (visual angle).
  • (2) In addition, intravenous injection of complexes into rabbits showed optimal myocardial images with agents of intermediate lipophilicity.
  • (3) More research and a national policy to provide optimal nutrition for all pregnant women, including the adolescent, are needed.
  • (4) A beta-adrenergic receptor cDNA cloned into a eukaryotic expression vector reliably induces high levels of beta-adrenergic receptor expression in 2-12% of COS cell colonies transfected with this plasmid after experimental conditions are optimized.
  • (5) Enhanced sensitivity to ITDs should translate to better-defined azimuthal receptive fields, and therefore may be a step toward achieving an optimal representation of azimuth within the auditory pathway.
  • (6) T cell costimulation by molecules on the antigen presenting cell (APC) is required for optimal T cell proliferation.
  • (7) This optimization resulted in products which are now studied in-vivo.
  • (8) This promotion of repetitive activity by the introduction of additional potassium channels occurred up to an "optimal" value beyond which a further increase in paranodal potassium permeability narrowed the range of currents with a repetitive response.
  • (9) In general, optimal DAGAT activity in vitro was observed when long-chain unsaturated acyl-CoAs and diacylglycerols (DAGs) containing long acyl chains were used as substrates for in vitro TAG synthesis (although 1,2-didecanoin was also very effective).
  • (10) In conclusion, autoimmune thyroiditis in an animal model can be prevented by reducing thyroidal iodine or its metabolism and optimal effects require intervention at the embryonic stage.
  • (11) Research must continue to determine the optimal regimen that suppresses testosterone activity with the least amount of toxicity.
  • (12) We present the analysis both formally and in geometric terms and show how it leads to a general algorithm for the optimization of NMR excitation schemes.
  • (13) The effect of exclusion versus inclusion of the fiducial timing point optimizing routine in the signal averaging program was examined in 21 patients.
  • (14) The nurse is in an optimal position to plan and deliver a program and determine its effectiveness.
  • (15) elution patterns of the adducts formed by DBF metabolites with DNA and obtained in vivo at the optimal exposure time of 42-48 h were qualitatively very similar to the patterns obtained in vitro, but their amplitude was quantitatively reduced.
  • (16) Incubation of the blocked filters with radiolabeled DNA under optimal binding conditions and subsequent autoradiography reveals high-affinity DNA-protein interactions.
  • (17) A technique is therefore described using 3-D images and reconstruction of high-resolution films, which allows rapid examination of the menisci in optimal planes.
  • (18) The data of first 1000 first-born, non-malformed, mature (greater than or equal to 2500 g) offspring of participants in the Hungarian "Optimal" Family Planning Programme were evaluated.
  • (19) Molecular mass of the native enzyme is 560,000 and optimal reaction temperature is 70 degrees C. Km value for ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate is 0.27 mM.
  • (20) Optimal yields of 7-ketolithocholic acid and 7-ketodeoxycholic acid were obtained after 78 h of incubation.