What's the difference between informant and relay?

Informant


Definition:

  • (v. t.) One who, or that which, informs, animates, or vivifies.
  • (v. t.) One who imparts information or instruction.
  • (v. t.) One who offers an accusation; an informer. See Informer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A former Labour minister, Nicholas Brown, said the public were frightened they "were going to be spied on" and that "illegally obtained" information would find its way to the public domain.
  • (2) The pattern of the stressor that causes a change in the pitch can be often identified only tentatively, if there is no additional information.
  • (3) Parents of subjects at the experimental school were visited at home by a community health worker who provided individualized information on dental services and preventive strategies.
  • (4) Past imaging techniques shown in the courtroom have made the conventional rules of evidence more difficult because of the different informational content and format required for presentation of these data.
  • (5) Suggested is a carefully prepared system of cycling videocassettes, to effect the dissemination of current medical information from leading medical centers to medical and paramedical people in the "bush".
  • (6) As the requirements to store and display these images increase, the following questions become important: (a) What methods can be used to ensure that information given to the physician represents the originally acquired data?
  • (7) As important providers of health care education, nurses need to be fully informed of the research findings relevant to effective interventions designed to motivate health-related behavior change.
  • (8) The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential for integrating surveillance techniques in reproductive epidemiology with geographic information system technology in order to identify populations at risk around hazardous waste sites.
  • (9) They suggest that an endogenous retinoid could contribute to positional information in the early Xenopus embryo.
  • (10) The control group received the same information in lecture form.
  • (11) Ofcom will conduct research, such as mystery shopping, to assess the transparency of contractual information given to customers by providers at the point of sale".
  • (12) Much of the current information concerning this issue is from short-term studies.
  • (13) In addition, despite the fact that the differences constitutes an information bias, the bias occurs in the same direction and magnitude in all the various subgroups and thus is nondifferential.
  • (14) Current information suggests that arachidonic acid metabolites are involved in the development of cholecystitis.
  • (15) The presence of CR-related activity suggests that SpoV may participate in the CR motor output pathway, and may also provide CR-related information to cerebellum.
  • (16) Employed method of observation gave quantitative information about the influence of odours on ratios of basic predeterminate activities, insect distribution pattern and their tendency to choose zones with an odour.
  • (17) Much information has accumulated on the isolation and characterization of a heterogeneous group of molecules that inhibit one or more of the bioactivities of interleukin 1.
  • (18) This can be achieved by sincere, periodic information through the mass media.
  • (19) Then, the informed permission of parents should be obtained.
  • (20) This technology will provide better information to the surgeon for preoperative diagnosis and planning and for the design of customized implants.

Relay


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To lay again; to lay a second time; as, to relay a pavement.
  • (n.) A supply of anything arranged beforehand for affording relief from time to time, or at successive stages; provision for successive relief.
  • (n.) A supply of horses placced at stations to be in readiness to relieve others, so that a trveler may proceed without delay.
  • (n.) A supply of hunting dogs or horses kept in readiness at certain places to relive the tired dogs or horses, and to continue the pursuit of the game if it comes that way.
  • (n.) A number of men who relieve others in carrying on some work.
  • (n.) In various forms of telegraphic apparatus, a magnet which receives the circuit current, and is caused by it to bring into into action the power of a local battery for performing the work of making the record; also, a similar device by which the current in one circuit is made to open or close another circuit in which a current is passing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If this is what 70s stoners were laughing at, it feels like they’ve already become acquiescent, passive parts of media-relayed consumer society; precursors of the cathode-ray-frazzled pop-culture exegetists of Tarantino and Kevin Smith in the 90s.
  • (2) 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.
  • (3) The biggest problem is to make generational relays as because of the violence many LGBTI activists are migrating and one of the fears I live up to is being a victim of the violence for the work I do.” Uganda The number of LGBT refugees a country produces is another indicator of how dangerous a country is for LGBT people.
  • (4) But the fact remains the information Michel was relaying was usually a fair precis of what Smith told him by text or email, often just a few minutes previously.
  • (5) The results of the present study suggest that the majority, if not all, of SOM-LI fibres in the Vp are probably of primary afferent origin and may be involved in relaying trigeminal sensation to neuron located in this brain area.
  • (6) These results indicate that the afferent pathway of the milk ejection reflex in the rat runs through the medial portion of the hypothalamus posterior to the paraventricular nucleus and that this region contains neurons which relay the input to the oxytocin neurons projecting in the neurohypophysis.
  • (7) This spatial facilitation indicated that the excitatory inputs from the cerebral cortex to DNNs are at least partly relayed via the PN and the NRTP.
  • (8) It was found that: the two cell types have the same basal adenylate cyclase activity; prespore cells and prestalk cells are able to relay the extracellular cAMP signal equally well; intact prestalk cells show a threefold higher cAMP phosphodiesterase activity on the cell surface than prespore cells, whereas their cytosolic activity is the same; intact prestalk cells bind three to four times more cAMP than prespore cells; no large differences in cAMP metabolism and detection were observed between cells derived from migrating slugs and culminating aggregates.
  • (9) The recent demonstration that the expression of the neuropeptide cholecystokinin is activationally regulated by estrogen at the mRNA level, within a sexually dimorphic population of neurons in the medial amygdala, suggests a possible cellular mechanism for the hormonal modulation of olfactory information relayed along the vomeronasal pathway to the hypothalamus.
  • (10) A hypothesis on the existence of functional units responsible for the effects of electroacupuncture analgesia with participation of inhibitory, relay neurons and interneurons is made.
  • (11) Moreover, only a small portion of thalamocortical neurons are capable of relaying STT-derived nociceptive and thermal information to the primary somatosensory cortex.
  • (12) Thus, electrophysiological alterations within the first synaptic relay of the hippocampal trisynaptic circuit, the dentate gyrus, cannot explain the long duration of the kindling effect.
  • (13) Thus, LV cells, by their duration of firing, trasmit information related to stimulus intensity, and by their patterned responses, have the potential to relay other information, possibly related to their nociceptive role.
  • (14) Their time courses were similar to those of the facilitation in the LGd relay neurons.
  • (15) Taken together, these data suggest that these enzymes play an important role in relaying the mitogenic signal by phosphorylating down-stream kinases and specific transcriptional factors, as well as having possible feedback function in the process of signal transduction.
  • (16) The active-site "charge-relay" residues (His-57, Asp-102, and Ser-195 of the chymotrypsin numbering system) are conserved, as well as the trypsin-specific Asp (position 189 in trypsin).
  • (17) I relayed all this depressing news to Prof Ashton, who replied with spirited sarcasm, "I've put forward my idea!
  • (18) The information was not relayed to the Independent Police Complaints Commission either, though police have a statutory obligation to inform the watchdog when there is evidence of a person dying after contact with officers.
  • (19) The following functions have been demonstrated: (a) transmission and distribution of preganglionic impulse activity to the targets in a relay-like fashion; (b) mediation of peripheral intestinointestinal reflexes between different sections of the GI tract; (c) integration of activity from the spinal cord and from various peripheral sources.
  • (20) We applied multiple relayed COSY and 2D homonuclear Hartman-Hahn spectroscopy to globoside, a glycolipid purified from human red blood cells.