What's the difference between minima and minimums?

Minima


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Minimum

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Local minima of hand speed evident within segments of continuous motion were associated with turn toward the target.
  • (2) These maxima were followed by periods of decreased thickness, although the minima were always greater than the untreated controls.
  • (3) The action spectrum for wild type has maxima near 383, 413, 452, and 490 nm and minima near 397, 425, and 469 nm.
  • (4) Multiple energy minima are derived from sampled conformations by minimizing their energy.
  • (5) A Monte Carlo-minimization method has been developed to overcome the multiple-minima problem.
  • (6) Spatio-temporal source modeling (simultaneously fitting a set of sources to all consecutive topographies) correctly localized all three sources, provided that the parameter optimization method could escape sub-optimal local minima of the error function.
  • (7) In the presence of increasing concentrations of the latter electrolytes, the CMC values frequently went through minima and approached the CMC of the surfactant in the absence of additives.
  • (8) For the normal ears, the psychometric functions were nonmonotonic, showing minima for gap durations corresponding to integer multiples of the signal period (n ms, where n is a positive integer) and maxima for durations corresponding to (n - 0.5) ms. For the impaired ears, the psychometric functions showed only small (nonsignificant) nonmonotonicities.
  • (9) 81% of these marks indicated minima parts, 10% of the marks indicated maxima parts, and 9% of the marks were at other positions.
  • (10) The lowest energy minima of the component disaccharide fragments were obtained from conformational energy mapping.
  • (11) Occurrence of nicking is best correlated with the predicted minima of the melting temperature and delta G profiles, as well as with A and T dinucleotide sequences at the nicked site, in both the supercoiled and the relaxed sequence-directed bent DNA substrates.
  • (12) Conversely, maxima and minima of lymphoproliferative responses to all the three mitogens occurred in April-June and January-February, respectively.
  • (13) Lehmann has demonstrated that EEG topography can be used to segment EEG map series into a sequence of spatially stationary segments characterized by location of potential maxima and minima.
  • (14) Using silver-impregnated nerve endings and bile canaliculi stained for thiamine pyrophosphatase, binary images like those prepared manually from thick specimens using a camera lucida can be obtained using the minima equalization procedure.
  • (15) They were significant different from the minima at noon (2P less than 0.005).
  • (16) These results are consistent with the hypothesis that phloretin decreases the intrinsic positive internal membrane potential but does not modify to a great extent the potential energy minima at the membrane interfaces.
  • (17) To estimate the sound pressure at the medial end of the ear canal, the Fourier transform of this impulse response is corrected by an all-pole function in which the poles are estimated from the minima in this Fourier transform.
  • (18) We believe we have found a better solution which comes closer to tackling the real problem by using a minima corticotherapy, delayed until a height 1 or 2 cm short of the desired height is reached and bridging the time later required for the conjugation cartilages to fuse, under the influence of physiological puberty which is allowed to occur naturally under this method.
  • (19) We postulate that this longitudinal separation, together with the single positive maximum and the three negative minima perceptible at 3.0 A, constitute a distance pharmacophore responsible for the recognition and proper alignment of the ligand.
  • (20) We have explored a strategy (the "antlion" method) for hypersurface modification that suppresses all minima but that of the native structure.

Minimums


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Propranolol resulted in a significantly lower mean hourly, mean 24 h and minimum heart rate.
  • (2) The move would require some secondary legislation; higher fines for employers paying less than the minimum wage would require new primary legislation.
  • (3) These results suggest that a certain minimum level of expression of c-myc is required for the maintenance of ras transformation in NIH 3T3 cells.
  • (4) Due to continued disease relapse in this group (four of eight patients), long-term survivors should not be identified for a minimum of 3.5 years from the time of initial therapy.
  • (5) At concentrations several hundredfold higher than the equivalents present in the minimum concentration of rat skin soluble collagen required for platelet aggregation, neither Hyl-Gal (at 29 muM) nor Hyl-Gal-Glc (at 18 muM) caused platelet aggregation or inhibited platelet aggregation by native collagen.
  • (6) The morbidity is well known and if properly anticipated can be reduced to a minimum by judicious use of antibacterial agents and early surgical intervention when appropriate.
  • (7) Analysis was performed on all patients who received any amount of therapy (VSG) and on the Adequately Treated Group (ATG), who had received 5000 or more rads radiotherapy, two or more courses of chemotherapy, and had a minimum survival of 8 or more weeks (the interval that would have been required to have received either the radiotherapy or chemotherapy).
  • (8) However, the effect of prior jaw motion and the effect of the recording site on the EMG amplitudes and on the vertical dimension of minimum EMG activity have not been documented.
  • (9) Leaders of Tory local government are preparing radical proposals for minimum 10% cuts in public spending in the search for savings.
  • (10) It was shown that the levels of ATP and ADP in the mycelium depended on the carbon source: the maximum and minimum ATP concentrations were found on the glucose and acetate media respectively, the maximum and minimum ADP concentrations showed inverse dependence.
  • (11) On the tangential views the inclinations of the future implants were estimated and the part of the alveolar ridge having a width less than 5 mm, which is the minimum width for housing an implant, was compiled.
  • (12) The activity was maximum at the 16-32-cell stage and then decreased to a minimum at the mesenchyme blastula stage.
  • (13) Minimum investment is £200, and the share prospectus states that interest of 6% will be paid from year three of trading.
  • (14) The 30-fold chromosomally mediated and 15-fold R-plasmid NT resistance were 3- and 5-fold respectively reduced by a minimum inhibitory combination of Tp + NT.
  • (15) Minimum inhibitory concentrations for these four antibiotics have been determined against 393 bacterial strains (13 species from eight genera) isolated from clinical materialKanamycin was the least active, 89% of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains being resistant.
  • (16) The number of seats has been reduced from 72,000 to 68,000, with another 12,000 to be added after the Games to meet the 80,000 minimum required in case Japan launches a bid to host the football World Cup.
  • (17) A minimum of 4 sheeps' heads, obtained weekly over 24 months from the Pretoria Municipal Abattoir, was examined for infestation.
  • (18) Variations in bioavailability and intestinal absorption are important factors in the determination of dosage and should be reduced to a minimum by improved pharmaceutical formulations.
  • (19) With a minimum review period of 6 months complete remission of synovitis was obtained in 20%, while 63% gained symptomatic relief, with some reduction of synovitis.
  • (20) The minimum contraction produced by the threshold current involved usually three or four, sometimes two, sarcomers on both sides of the injecting pipette but contraction involving only one sarcomere was not observered.

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