What's the difference between gems and nems?

Gems


Definition:

  • (n.) The chamois.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And that ancient Basque cultural gem – the mysterious language with its odd Xs, Ks and Ts – will be honoured at every turn in a city where it was forbidden by Franco.
  • (2) Christine Langan of BBC Films told Screen Daily: "Compelling, funny and moving, Gold is a gem of a story and BBC Films is proud to be participating in bringing it to an international audience."
  • (3) Of major significance in assessing the environmental risk impact of GEMs is an understanding of their survival and transport in soil and subsurface environments.
  • (4) It’s not just about the many gems he pitched, including a no-hitter in 2008 .
  • (5) Gems has a massive personality, Liz may have fallen down in that regard.” She went on: “If I think Liz Jones has got a face that looks like it’s just walked into a patio door then that’s the line she’s going to get.
  • (6) Camille O'Sullivan In 2007, the sinister, humorous gem Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea spread like wildfire just after its opening, and you had to kill to get a ticket.
  • (7) The island is big enough to cope with this, though, especially in the off season, and still contains some gems.
  • (8) According to several criteria, the microcosm system was stable and healthy throughout the experiment and the addition of the GEM did not affect the total number of extractable CFU (I. Wagner-Döbler, R. Pipke, K. N. Timmis, and D. F. Dwyer, Appl.
  • (9) "He couldn't beat a ten-year old with exactly the same kick," reports Costas Tsioras, who sends in this gem: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close Oh dear.
  • (10) GEMs added at initial densities of 10(6) to 10(7) bacteria per ml of activated sludge declined to stable population densities of 10(4) to 10(5) bacteria per ml.
  • (11) This magnificent quintet of gems was, alas, the sum total of the factual and subjective spoils of which the committee was able to relieve him over two-and-a-half long hours.
  • (12) Potencies for the induction of peroxisomal fatty acyl-CoA oxidase (FACO) and microsomal laurate hydroxylase (LH) were determined for clofibric acid (CPIB), ciprofibrate (Cipro) and gemfibrozil (Gem) in primary cultures of rat hepatocytes based on complete concentration-response analysis and determination of theoretical maximum inductive responses for Cipro.
  • (13) Their second album slumped in the charts, guitarist Gem Archer fractured his skull , and Liam Gallagher split with his wife, Nicole Appleton.
  • (14) FIVE MORE FRENCH COASTAL GEMS Marseille grotto Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A 40-minute walk from Marseille’s Luminy university campus, Calanque de Sugiton, the most picturesque of the city’s rugged, limestone coves has blue-green waters, twisted pine trees and a narrow island-rock to swim out to known as Le Torpilleur.
  • (15) Subgroup 2 fell between subgroups 1 and 3 including serovars dakota, naam, bogvere, birkini, smithi, ndambari, gem, ndahambukuje and mwogolo.
  • (16) So Zhou Enlai’s famous reply was actually quite banal – yet is now universally reinterpreted as a gem of sempiternal Chinese wisdom.
  • (17) The authors study the effects of severe sepsis due to pathogenic gems in large quantity an healing of the suture of the ileum in the rabbit.
  • (18) In this paper, we present the consensus statement from a national conference on research priorities and methodologies for studying geriatric evaluation and management (GEM) programs.
  • (19) There are so many little gems that are clearly mantras of people who have been through meetings.
  • (20) "It is an architectural gem and the artistic heart of Glasgow.

Nems


Definition:

  • (n.) The ichneumon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Addition of cysteine or GSH reversed the inhibition with NEM.
  • (2) Hepatic removal of RBC previously treated in vitro with N-ethyl-maleimide (NEM) or phenylhydrazine-HCl (PHZ) was similarly depressed by pretreatment with cortisone.
  • (3) N-ethylmaleimide (NEM) is a sulfhydryl-reacting agent known to stimulate chloride-dependent K transport in a variety of red cells.
  • (4) Second, admixture of such NEM-treated, enzymatically inactive HMM or myosin to native regulated actomyosin or acto-HMM inhibited relaxation.
  • (5) Neither the modification of ALBP with NEM nor the addition of oleic acid had a significant effect on protein structure, as judged by circular dichroic analysis.
  • (6) Nobody was surprised when the house agreed unanimously, or at least nem con, to get the whole matter investigated by Mr Bryant's committee.
  • (7) In addition, NEM-inactivated binding to 5-HT1A and 5-HT1D sites can be restored by addition of Gi plus Go.
  • (8) NEM increases the affinity of beta 2-adrenoreceptors for the hormone (1.5-12-fold).
  • (9) When the concentration of NEM was increased to 2.75 x 10(-4) M, the directly-elicited twitches were inhibited, and the baseline tension was increased.
  • (10) Modification by NEM results in nearly total loss of enzyme activity, whereas modification by IAA causes a slight increase in activity.
  • (11) The SH-group reagent, N-ethylmaleimide (NEM), also inhibits ATP-driven H+ uptake irreversibly.
  • (12) The treatment of RBCMF with n-ethylmaleimide (NEM) does not interfere with the initial phosphorylation reaction, but blocks the dephosphorylation in the presence of Ca++.
  • (13) In contrast, NEM did not reduce the negative inotropic response to muscarinic (M) receptor stimulation.
  • (14) Data are presented which suggest that both GSH and acetaminophen bind to a subset of N-ethylmaleimide (NEM)-reactive protein thiols.
  • (15) Taste receptors for L-alanine and L-arginine in the channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus, are differentially reactive to N-ethylmaleimide (NEM) and p-chloromercuribenzenesulphonic acid (pCMBS).
  • (16) Reconstitution experiments showed that addition of the purified inhibitor to NEM-treated plasma membranes restored the inhibitions of the (Ca2+-Mg2+)-ATPase by both magnesium and glucagon.
  • (17) In isolated rat pancreatic islets, the effect of diamide and N-ethylmaleimide (NEM) on forskolin- as well as on glucagon-induced elevation of cAMP was studied.
  • (18) We found that 1) acidification of the epithelium by means of 5% CO2 and the protonophores carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone (CCCP) and nigericin inhibited urea influx; 2) alkalinization of the epithelium by means of the disulfonic stilbene DIDS and by removal of serosal chloride increased urea influx; 3) inhibition of the proton-translocating ATPase of the skin by means of 1,3-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (DCCD), N-ethylmaleimide (NEM), and sodium orthovanadate inhibited urea transport; 4) urea influx was unaffected by alkalinizing the external medium to 8.5 or by acidifying to 6.5; it was significantly suppressed by a mucosal pH of 5.5.
  • (19) Only O-Fd, NEM-Fd and native-Fd were capable of sensitizing lymphocytes for a proliferative response in vitro to the test antigens.
  • (20) Finally, the combination of the two treatments, NEM and hypotonic shock, was found to increase the K+ fluxes even further, suggesting additivity of the two stimuli by mutual positive interaction.

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