What's the difference between fluence and force?

Fluence


Definition:

  • (n.) Fluency.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is due to changes with energy in the relative backscattered electron fluence between chamber support and phantom materials.
  • (2) We obtained a complete fluence-response curve for the laser pulses, which agreed with data for irradiations in the second to minute range.
  • (3) Quantitative agreement between the latter two sets of relative biological effectiveness values was obtained only when they were referred to the actual light energy fluence in tissue, rather than to the incident fluence.
  • (4) radiation, the radiation quality of tritium beta-rays is considerably different from those of 60Co gamma-rays and 7 MeV electrons, and has specific features such as a high average l.e.t., a small total electron fluence per unit absorbed dose, and a different microdosimetric distribution, fj, for nanometer-size targets.
  • (5) At higher fluences the overall mutant frequency response could be resolved into one-hit and two-hit components.
  • (6) The fluence perturbation due to electrons emitted through the side walls are thoroughly investigated by measurements using film and extrapolation chambers and by calculations.
  • (7) Photohemolysis dependency on the light fluence had a characteristic sigmoidal shape.
  • (8) Optimisation of conditions for patient irradiations is discussed and it is shown that acceptable uniformity of fluence can be achieved with little or no premoderation of the incident neutrons.
  • (9) The interaction of normal human skin with low-fluence CO2 laser irradiation was studied using a three-phase approach.
  • (10) To calculate dose in the presence of tissue and applicator heterogeneities, a computer code has been developed that describes scatter dose as a 3-D spatial integral which convolves primary photon fluence with a dose-spread array.
  • (11) The maximal number of cells in mitosis after treatment (approximately 20%) is dependent on the fluence but is similar for all three photosensitizers.
  • (12) The same DNA irradiated in Escherichia coli host cells showed about the same number of breaks in alkaline gradients for equal fluence, but only 0.5 alkali-labile bond per true break.
  • (13) Other periodic light treatment regimens, consisting of 3-, 6-, or 24-hr dark intervals, delayed tumor growth but not significantly more than continuous irradiation at the same fluence.
  • (14) This threshold is given by the product of photon fluence, photosensitizer concentration and specific absorption coefficient.
  • (15) The threshold for the excitation of the GTPase activity in vitro is less than 10(-1) mumol.m-2 of blue light, consistent with participation in the blue low-fluence system identified in the same tissue.
  • (16) The exposure rate constant was determined by converting the count rate from a scintillation spectrometer into the photon-fluence rate incident upon the detector, then calculating the exposure rate from the photon-fluence rate.
  • (17) No discernible difference could be detected between the fluence-response curves of pyrimidine dimers for untreated and MMC-treated repair-deficient xeroderma pigmentosum cells of group A.
  • (18) The fluence-response curves for photoinduction in the cold and at 26 degrees C were identical, indicating that there are no enzymatic transduction processes during irradiation.
  • (19) The neutron fluence imparted to the irradiated subjects needs to be measured accurately in order to obtain meaningful results from diagnostic irradiations.
  • (20) Dose distributions were obtained using FFT convolutions of the kernels for each energy with the spectrally weighted fluence distributions for that energy.

Force


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To stuff; to lard; to farce.
  • (n.) A waterfall; a cascade.
  • (n.) Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigor; might; often, an unusual degree of strength or energy; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect; especially, power to persuade, or convince, or impose obligation; pertinency; validity; special signification; as, the force of an appeal, an argument, a contract, or a term.
  • (n.) Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
  • (n.) Strength or power for war; hence, a body of land or naval combatants, with their appurtenances, ready for action; -- an armament; troops; warlike array; -- often in the plural; hence, a body of men prepared for action in other ways; as, the laboring force of a plantation.
  • (n.) Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things; violence.
  • (n.) Validity; efficacy.
  • (n.) Any action between two bodies which changes, or tends to change, their relative condition as to rest or motion; or, more generally, which changes, or tends to change, any physical relation between them, whether mechanical, thermal, chemical, electrical, magnetic, or of any other kind; as, the force of gravity; cohesive force; centrifugal force.
  • (n.) To constrain to do or to forbear, by the exertion of a power not resistible; to compel by physical, moral, or intellectual means; to coerce; as, masters force slaves to labor.
  • (n.) To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind.
  • (n.) To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one;s will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon.
  • (n.) To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
  • (n.) To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc.
  • (n.) To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
  • (n.) To exert to the utmost; to urge; hence, to strain; to urge to excessive, unnatural, or untimely action; to produce by unnatural effort; as, to force a consient or metaphor; to force a laugh; to force fruits.
  • (n.) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none.
  • (n.) To provide with forces; to reenforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
  • (n.) To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
  • (v. i.) To use violence; to make violent effort; to strive; to endeavor.
  • (v. i.) To make a difficult matter of anything; to labor; to hesitate; hence, to force of, to make much account of; to regard.
  • (v. i.) To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They’re no crack force either; many are rather portly!
  • (2) I want to be clear; the American forces that have been deployed to Iraq do not and will not have a combat mission,” said Obama in a speech to troops at US Central Command headquarters in Florida.
  • (3) In early 2000, during the first months of Vladimir Putin’s presidency, Babitsky was kidnapped by Russian forces and disappeared for many weeks.
  • (4) Historical analysis shows that institutions and special education services spring from common, although not identical, societal and philosophical forces.
  • (5) Further, the maximal increase in force of contraction was measured using papillary muscle strips from some of these patients.
  • (6) "What has made that worse is the disingenuous way the force has defended their actions.
  • (7) Patrice Evra Evra Handed a five-match international ban for his part in the France squad’s mutiny against Raymond Domenech at the 2010 World Cup, it took Evra almost a year to force his way back in.
  • (8) DI James Faulkner of Great Manchester police said: “The men and women working in the factory have told us that they were subjected to physical and verbal assaults at the hands of their employers and forced to work more than 80-hours before ending up with around £25 for their week’s work.
  • (9) There have been numerous documented cases of people being forced to seek hospital treatment after eating meat contaminated with high concentrations of clenbuterol.
  • (10) Peak Expiratory Flow and Forced Expiratory Mean Flows in the ranges 0-25%, 25-50% and 50-75% of Forced Vital Capacity were significantly reduced in animals exposed to gasoline exhaust fumes, whereas the group exposed to ethanol exhaust fumes did not differ from the control group.
  • (11) She knows you can’t force the opposition to submit to your point of view.
  • (12) However in the deciduous teeth from which the successional tooth germs were removed, the processes of tooth resorption was very different in individuals, the difference between tooth resorption in normal occlusal force and in decreased occlusal force was not clear.
  • (13) In a series of compounds with H2-antihistaminic activity, a conformational analysis was performed based on force field calculations.
  • (14) Peptides from this region bind to actin, act as mixed inhibitors of the actin-stimulated S1 Mg2(+)-ATPase, and influence the contractile force developed in skinned fibres, whereas peptides flanking this sequence are without effect in our test systems.
  • (15) In order for the club to grow and sustain its ability to be a competitive force in the Premier League, the board has made a number of decisions which will strengthen the club, support the executive team, manager and his staff and enhance shareholder return.
  • (16) Of great influence on the results of measurements are preparation and registration (warm-up-time, amplification, closeness of pressure-system, unhurt catheters), factors relating to equipment and methods (air-bubbles in pressure-system, damping by filters, continuous infusion of the micro-catheter, level of zero-pressure), factors which occur during intravital measurement (pressure-drop along the arteria pulmonalis, influence of normal breathing, great intrapleural pressure changes, pressure damping in the catheter by thrombosis and external disturbances) and last not least positive and negative acceleration forces, which influence the diastolic and systolic pulmonary artery pressure.
  • (17) These reflexes can function to limit forces applied to a leg and provide compensatory adjustments in other legs.
  • (18) Five investigations into the force are being carried out by the IPCC.
  • (19) The data indicate that with force present for 10% of the time (1:9), there was little or no effect on eruption rate.
  • (20) The mechanical forces involved in neurite extension have begun to be quantified, and interactions between the actin and microtubule systems are being further characterized.

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