What's the difference between lux and luz?

Lux


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To put out of joint; to luxate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Adenosine deaminase (ADA) activity was localized at the surface membrane of the mouse C-1300 neuroblastoma by incubation of a confluent tissue culture monolayer grown on Lux-Permanox cultureware with 6-chloropurine ribonucleoside (CPR).
  • (2) Strains with transposon-generated lux::lacZ gene fusions were used to analyze control of the transcription of these regions.
  • (3) For 1-4 weeks after surgery they were exposed to either 1000 lux for 24 hr or 80 lux for 48 hr.
  • (4) Flash stimuli with the maximum illuminance, 30,000 lux, were given at increasing levels of illuminance in 0.6 log U steps for 13 levels of intensity.
  • (5) The lux genes required for expression of luminescence have been cloned from a terrestrial bacterium, Xenorhabdus luminescens, and the nucleotide sequences of the luxA and luxB genes coding for the alpha and beta subunits of luciferase determined.
  • (6) To assess whether developmental state, as opposed to species, was a factor determining the differences in vulnerability to injury, hearts from immature rats and adult rabbits were perfused with various concentrations of rose bengal (250-2500 nmol.litre-1) with the intensity of illumination (1400-6600 Lux) adjusted to account for the size of the heart.
  • (7) A simple method based upon the use of a Tn5 derivative, Tn5-Lux, has been devised for the introduction and stable expression of the character of bioluminescence in a variety of gram-negative bacteria.
  • (8) In humans, the light intensity must probably exceed 2000 lux to be optimal.
  • (9) Ethylenediamine-di(o-hydroxyphenyl acetic acid) did not affect luciferase induction in E. coli strains with wild-type iron assimilation (ED8654) or impaired iron assimilation (RW193) bearing pJE202 (a plasmid with functional V. fischeri lux genes), suggesting that the genes responsible for the iron effect are missing or substituted in these clones.
  • (10) Bromohydrins (12, 13, and 14), which were oxidatively damaged products of thymidine nucleotides, were repaired by the action of sunlight (2700 lux) or heat via a radical mechanism to regenerate the original nucleotides (8,9, and 10).
  • (11) In humans only bright light (2500 lux) appears to be an effective circadian zeitgeber.
  • (12) In the second part, caries was simulated by grooves of increasing depth in aluminum blocks of a thickness equivalent in radiopacity to enamel and the detectability assessed beneath differing thicknesses of three representative composite resins, P-30, Brilliant Lux and Occlusin.
  • (13) The rightward operon contains luxI, which together with luxR and the 218 base pairs separating the two operons comprises the primary regulatory circuit, and the five structural genes, luxC, luxD, luxA, luxB and luxE, which are required for the bioluminescence activity.
  • (14) The genes required for bioluminescence (the lux genes) are organized in two divergently transcribed operons (luxR-luxICDABEG).
  • (15) The tests were performed between 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., with light (700-1400 lux) and in the dark (1.4-2.8 lux) and behavior was recorded by the time sampling technique.
  • (16) The protocol consisted of a baseline control night (customary sleep schedule) followed by three shortened nights with a rising at 05.00 and a 2 h exposure to either dim light (50 lux; one week) or bright light (2000 lux; other week).
  • (17) Up to 12-14 weeks of age, the .11 lux intensity was superior to the other treatments.
  • (18) Under LD 20:4, the intensity of L was decreased to 1 lux for 1 hr (D pulse).
  • (19) At low levels of illumination (30 lux), this effect was similar to that seen in anesthetized animals but was diminished under higher ambient lighting conditions.
  • (20) The transcription of the V. fischeri lux genes also requires a regulatory protein, (luxR), cAMP and CRP.

Luz


Definition:

  • (n.) A bone of the human body which was supposed by certain Rabbinical writers to be indestructible. Its location was a matter of dispute.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The team is trying to identify a number of fair-haired men, possibly Dutch or German nationals, who were seen lurking around the apartment where the little girl was last seen in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in 2007.
  • (2) The size of the fee feels startling given that Matic had been considered little more than a £3m makeweight in the £23.5m deal that brought David Luiz from the Estádio da Luz three years ago.
  • (3) Photograph: Pablo Lopez Luz In recent years, pixadores have targeted icons of São Paulo’s modernism, including the Wilton Paes de Almeida building and Niemeyer’s famous pavilion located inside Ibirapuera Park .
  • (4) We are going to need him.” The Estádio da Luz is usually recognised as the place of Eusébio.
  • (5) Madeleine, who was then nearly four, disappeared from her family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in the Algarve on 3 May 2007 as her parents dined at a nearby restaurant with friends.
  • (6) But the tiny village of Praia da Luz is trying to move on.
  • (7) The man was described by the two witnesses as being inside the Ocean Club complex in Praia da Luz area on the evening that Madeleine went missing from the apartment.
  • (8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Eliana Sabogal, 18, (from left), her grandmother Luz Sanabria, 63, and her friend Natacha Castillo, 19, sit on the porch of Sabogal’s family home in Southampton, New York.
  • (9) Then – in one 343km leap – I was in Bayonne, a shuttered, half-timbered, riverfront town within easy hitching distance along the coast of the swish resorts of Biarritz and St-Jean-de-Luz.
  • (10) Conversely, two non-haemolytic variants (G6PD Luz Saint Sauveur and Lozère) were found to be linked in another remote cluster.
  • (11) Cesar leads the lads out Times change, and there'll be nothing quite like all that innocent gallivanting this evening, as Lisbon (this time at Benfica's shiny new Estádio da Luz) hosts the biggest match in European club football for the second time.
  • (12) "I don't think it has in any way changed the image of Luz.
  • (13) He was seen in the vicinity of the Praia da Luz resort in Portugal six years ago at the time that the three-year-old went missing.
  • (14) The show, Aktenzeichen XY … ungelöst ( File Reference XY … unsolved), due to be broadcast on Wednesday, will include the 22-minute reconstruction of the day the then three-year-old went missing during a family holiday in Praia da Luz, southern Portugal, on 3 May 2007.
  • (15) Detectives from the Met now believe that a man with dark collar-length hair seen carrying a pyjama-clad child almost outside the McCann family's apartment in Praia da Luz, southern Portugal, at about 9.15pm on 3 May 2007 was in fact an innocent British holidaymaker returning his own child from a night creche.
  • (16) Jorge Viale (@jorgeviale) Así empezó su día @delpotrojuan : encerrado 40 minutos en un ascensor de la villa olímpica por un corte de luz.
  • (17) When my photographer friend Pablo Lopez Luz came to visit, it was the first thing that caught his eye: “What’s with all the graffiti?” he asked.
  • (18) Luz told the world’s assembled media, who were packed into every inch of space in the makeshift conference room, that he had no fear after drawing the picture of Muhammad on the front cover of the magazine.
  • (19) Bought as a youngster from Kosice for £1.5m, his sale had been sanctioned to Benfica as part of the deal that brought David Luiz – a visitor to Stamford Bridge with PSG on Wednesday – from the Estádio da Luz a little over four years ago.
  • (20) The cover cartoon was drawn by the weekly’s cartoonist Luz, who survived the massacre because he was late arriving at the office.

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