What's the difference between flux and traffic?

Flux


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change.
  • (n.) The setting in of the tide toward the shore, -- the ebb being called the reflux.
  • (n.) The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.
  • (n.) Any substance or mixture used to promote the fusion of metals or minerals, as alkalies, borax, lime, fluorite.
  • (n.) A fluid discharge from the bowels or other part; especially, an excessive and morbid discharge; as, the bloody flux or dysentery. See Bloody flux.
  • (n.) The matter thus discharged.
  • (n.) The quantity of a fluid that crosses a unit area of a given surface in a unit of time.
  • (n.) Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.
  • (v. t.) To affect, or bring to a certain state, by flux.
  • (v. t.) To cause to become fluid; to fuse.
  • (v. t.) To cause a discharge from; to purge.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is concluded that amlodipine reduces myocardial ischemic injury by mechanism(s) that may involve a reduction in myocardial oxygen demand as well as by positively influencing transmembrane Ca2+ fluxes during ischemia and reperfusion.
  • (2) The main finding of this study is that diabetic adolescents with a high erythrocyte Na,Li countertransport rate have an arterial pressure significantly higher than patients with normal Na,Li countertransport fluxes.
  • (3) The role of adrenergic agents in augmenting proximal tubular salt and water flux, was studied in a preparation of freshly isolated rabbit renal proximal tubular cells in suspension.
  • (4) The effect of the peptides on carbachol-induced 22Na+ flux into BC3H-1 cells, which contain nicotinic acetylcholine receptors on their surfaces, was measured.
  • (5) Previous evidence includes changes in Ca2+ fluxes and intracellular activity, membrane potential changes, and effects of ion-channel blockers.
  • (6) The inhibition by DCMU of palmitoylcarnitine oxidation by isolated liver mitochondria was used to calculate a flux control coefficient of the respiratory chain towards gluconeogenesis.
  • (7) Under anaerobic conditions, glycolytic flux was decreased but this did not appear to be the result of inhibition of phosphofructokinase, since the concentrations of both substrates, fructose 6-phosphate and ATP, were decreased.
  • (8) By contrast, there was a rapid exchange of tracer Leu carbon between placenta and fetus resulting in a significant flux of labeled KIC from placenta to fetus.
  • (9) The current work utilizes an empirical relationship between HbO2 saturation measurements and reflected light oximetry, which is consistent with the two-flux theory of Kubelka and Munk (Z.
  • (10) The proportion of L-tryptophan metabolized via the latter flux increased over 10-fold (75% of total tryptophan metabolized) as the concentration of L-tryptophan was raised from 5 x 10(-5) to 5 x 10(-4) M. L-Tryptophan metabolized via the kynureninase flux was less than 5% of total tryptophan metabolized.
  • (11) The momentum flux theory describes such phenomena most appropriately.
  • (12) A state of net secretory fluid flux was induced in isolated jejunal loops in weanling pigs by adding theophylline or cholera toxin to the lumen of the isolated loops.
  • (13) The unidirectional Cl- fluxes may have significant contributions from both the transcellular and paracellular pathways, with the direction of departure from predicted values being consistent with the presence of Cl- exchange diffusion.
  • (14) cAMP decreased the incorporation of choline into phosphatidylcholine, but did not change the flux of metabolites through the step catalyzed by CTP:phosphocholine cytidylyltransferase.
  • (15) This was apparent by standard flux techniques only in low (65 mM) Na solutions, but was readily discernible in normal Na (125 mM) with the "lanthanum-residual" technique.
  • (16) But prealbumin-2, which has lower affinity towards thyroxine, participates mainly in a rapid flux of the free thyroxine pool.
  • (17) In the patients with aplastic anaemia the iron flux was diminished, but never eliminated, demonstrating that the exchangeable compartment was not solely erythroblastic, but included non-erythroid transferrin receptors.
  • (18) Outward Na+ cotransport fluxes significantly rose (p less than 0.05) after acetate hemodialysis and decreased (p less than 0.05) after bicarbonate hemodialysis.
  • (19) This "flux inhibition" was found to depend upon the velocity and the duration of water flow from mucosa to the serosa.
  • (20) In the microsac preparation, the PKC activators (-)-7-octylindolactam V and PMA inhibited the sustained phase of 36Cl- flux without altering the transient phase.

Traffic


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade.
  • (v. i.) To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
  • (v. t.) To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
  • (v.) Commerce, either by barter or by buying and selling; interchange of goods and commodities; trade.
  • (v.) Commodities of the market.
  • (v.) The business done upon a railway, steamboat line, etc., with reference to the number of passengers or the amount of freight carried.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Road traffic accidents (RTAs) comprised 40% and ischaemic heart disease (IHD) 13% of the total.
  • (2) The discussion on topics like post-schooling and rehabilitation of motorists has intensified the contacts between advocates of traffic law and traffic psychologists in the last years.
  • (3) The cause has been innumerable "VIP movements", as journeys undertaken by those considered important enough for all other traffic to be held up, sometimes for hours, are described in South Asian bureaucratic speak.
  • (4) Measurement of traffic through late endosomes, which are closely related to the organelle in which antigen processing occurs, has, to date, required large numbers of cells and therefore has not been possible for dendritic cells.
  • (5) The distinguishing feature of this study is the simultaneous measurement of sympathetic firing and norepinephrine spillover in the same organ, the kidney, under conditions of intact sympathetic impulse traffic.
  • (6) A traumatic factor in the aetiology of the AVM was also discussed, since the patient had had two preceding episodes of traffic accidents with cranial and lumbar injury.
  • (7) Slager, 33, was a patrolman first class for the North Charleston police department when he fatally shot Scott, 50, following a struggle that led from a traffic stop when the officer noticed that one of Scott’s car tail lights was broken.
  • (8) 75% of Bundles site traffic is coming from returning users."
  • (9) He added that 45% of traffic to Local World's extensive portfolio of websites – 76 newspaper sites, 26 This is … sites and 400 hyper local sites – comes from mobile devices.
  • (10) However, most deaths were due to traffic accidents.
  • (11) With an ambulance service staffed by doctors from the anaesthetic and intensive care units of the central hospitals it is possible to provide prehospital treatment in 70% of all severe traffic injuries in the County of Ringkøbing.
  • (12) They didn’t know the dangers that they were putting myself, themselves and passing air traffic in.
  • (13) In Experiment 1 subjects viewed a slide sequence depicting a traffic accident.
  • (14) Two hundred and forty-four motor car occupants involved in road traffic accidents, who sustained injuries sufficiently severe to require admission to hospital, have been investigated in order to assess the value of seat belts.
  • (15) But should a traffic officer go to jail for neglecting a dangerous road, or a doctor who misses a critical symptom, or a judge who lets a murderer go free?
  • (16) The plane lost contact with air traffic control eight minutes after it left the western town of Pokhara on its way to Jomsom on Wednesday morning.
  • (17) To examine the molecular traffic and sites of metabolism of PAF released in the vascular wall, we used a coculture system in which endothelial cells are grown on micropore filters suspended over confluent cultures of vascular smooth muscle cells.
  • (18) Jenny Jones, a Green party member of the London Assembly who has campaigned to make cycling safer, said she had spoken to the deputy head of the Met's traffic unit to express her worries about the operation.
  • (19) Analysis of time-dependent development of various events in man's life (diseases, traumas traffic accidents, normal delivery, death because of diseases) and physiological processes allowed to reveal the presence of intradian cycle in their dynamics with the period about 4-6 hs.
  • (20) In five of the six cases a violent contusion in the trochanter region was involved as a result of a fall on a hard surface or a traffic accident.