What's the difference between mobile and nosy?

Mobile


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable.
  • (a.) Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom; as, benzine and mercury are mobile liquids; -- opposed to viscous, viscoidal, or oily.
  • (a.) Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
  • (a.) Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features.
  • (a.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
  • (a.) The mob; the populace.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was found that linear extrapolations of log k' versus ET(30) plots to the polarity of unmodified aqueous mobile phase gave a more reliable value of log k'w than linear regressions of log k' versus volume percent.
  • (2) The mobility on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis is anomalous since the undenatured, cross-linked proteins have the same Stokes radius as the native, uncross-linked alpha beta gamma heterotrimer.
  • (3) It is likely that trunk mobility is necessary to maintain integrity of SI joint and that absence of such mobility compromises SI joint structure in many paraplegics.
  • (4) Their particular electrophoretic mobility was retained.
  • (5) This mobilization procedure allowed transfer and expression of pJT1 Ag+ resistance in E. coli C600.
  • (6) A substance with a chromatographic mobility of Rf = 0.8 on TLC plates having an intact phosphorylcholine head group was also formed but has not yet been identified.
  • (7) The following model is suggested: exogenous ATP interacts with a membrane receptor in the presence of Ca2+, a cascade of events occurs which mobilizes intracellular calcium, thereby increasing the cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration which consequently opens the calcium-activated K+ channels, which then leads to a change in membrane potential.
  • (8) Sequence specific binding of protein extracts from 13 different yeast species to three oligonucleotide probes and two points mutants derived from Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA binding proteins were tested using mobility shift assays.
  • (9) The molecule may already in its native form have an extended conformation containing either free sulfhydryl groups or small S-S loops not affecting mobility in SDS-PAGE.
  • (10) Furthermore, carcinoembryonic antigen from the carcinoma tissue was found to have the same electrophoretical mobility as the UEA-I binding glycoproteins.
  • (11) There was immediate resolution of paresthesia following mobilization of the impinging vessel from the nerve.
  • (12) The last stems from trends such as declining birth rate, an increasingly mobile society, diminished importance of the nuclear family, and the diminishing attractiveness of professions involved with providing maintenance care.
  • (13) In order to obtain the most suitable mobile phase, we studied the influence of pH and acetonitrile content on the capacity factor (k').
  • (14) Here is the reality of social mobility in modern Britain.
  • (15) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.
  • (16) The toxins preferentially attenuate a slow phase of KCl-evoked glutamate release which may be associated with synaptic vesicle mobilization.
  • (17) Heparitinase I (EC 4.2.2.8), an enzyme with specificity restricted to the heparan sulfate portion of the polysaccharide, releases fragments with the electrophoretic mobility and the structure of heparin.
  • (18) The transference by conjugation of protease genetic information between Proteus mirabilis strains only occurs upon mobilization by a conjugative plasmid such as RP4 (Inc P group).
  • (19) Lady Gaga is not the first big music star to make a new album available early to mobile customers.
  • (20) Moreover, it is the recombinant p70 polypeptides of slowest mobility that coelute with S6 kinase activity on anion-exchange chromatography.

Nosy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Since 1977, the Pasteur Institute of Madagascar has been studying, during six surveys, the arboviruses of Nosy-Be area, in the north-west of Madagascar.
  • (2) In that study, assessments of the subjects were carried out with two psychiatric rating scales, Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale and Nurses' Observation Scale for Inpatient Evaluation (BPRS and NOSIE), and two clinical evaluations (psychiatrist and nurse).
  • (3) In a double-blind trial of chlorpromazine and thiothixene conducted with 79 acutely ill, newly hospitalized schizophrenic patients, chlorpromazine and thiothixene were shown to be equally effective in producing meaningful symptomatic improvment over an average period of approximately 3 weeks, as measured by Global Assessments (CGI), BPRS, and NOSIE.
  • (4) We don’t want to just be a nice video player for kids: it’s an incentive for us to really invest in the curriculum in the games, and new features like offline viewing, which we added earlier this year.” Hopster is part of a flurry of British startups exploring digital entertainment for children: there is also digital books store Me Books ; the creativity-focused Night Zookeeper ; and apps and books publisher Nosy Crow to name just three.
  • (5) HVA levels correlated positively with social interest and total positive scores on the Nurses Observation Scale for Inpatient Evaluation (NOSIE-30) and negatively with lassitude and slowness of movements on the Comprehensive Psychopathological Rating Scale (CPRS).
  • (6) And so I set off to do a little detective work of my own, to discover whether Maigret’s Paris, full of squalid, storied hotels with communal bathrooms, apartment buildings with nosy concierges and, most importantly, characterful regional bistros and hyper-provincial bars, could still be found.
  • (7) The predictive value of the NOSIE, a ward behaviour rating scale, was investigated in a group of long-stay patients.
  • (8) Psychometric data were obtained by use of three external-assessment schemes (HAMD, BPRS, and NOSIE) and two self-assessment procedures (TSD, POMS).
  • (9) The factor structure and its invariance of the Nurses' Observation Scale for Inpatient evaluation (NOSIE) were investigated in a Dutch psycho-geriatric population (N = 247) and compared with those of a short stay psychiatric population (N = 177).
  • (10) Forty schizophrenic patients were rated both by nurses (using the NOSIE) and by themselves on days soon after they had completed a period of activity.
  • (11) Read this interview for more on Nosy Crow’s strategy.
  • (12) Like previous Nosy Crow apps, Jack and the Beanstalk swerves some of the elements of the story: the giant doesn't get killed on-screen, just as the first two little pigs didn't die in the company's first fairytale app – they ran to shelter in the third little pig's house of bricks instead.
  • (13) "I wasn't covered up because I was just basically following the crowd to be nosy … there was all different kinds like: black girls, white boys, vice versa, they was just of all ages, from 14, 15 to big adults … You're in shock really, because … everyone was just starting to smash out the windows of every shop around them.
  • (14) One case of clinical AIDS was diagnosed in 1988 in a Franco-Malagasy subject living in NOSY BE.
  • (15) Clinical examinations were performed by the doctor, using the EACG rating scale (a French version of the Sandoz Clinical Assessment Geriatric scale), and by the nurse, using the NOSIE scale, when patients entered the trial and repeated after 2, 4 and 6 months.
  • (16) Global therapeutic effect was confirmed and illustrated by effects on specific variables (List of Cerebral Symptoms, function test, NOSIE) evaluated by analysis of covariance.
  • (17) GAS, NOSIE, and BPRS scores all showed significant improvement.
  • (18) A stepwise regression analysis showed BPRS Activation and NOSIE Manifest Psychosis to be of significance, the BPRS subscale displaying a positive and the NOSIE subtest a negative partial correlation to SF frequency.
  • (19) It was concluded that most of the NOSIE was cross-culturally robust and relevant to its declared purpose.
  • (20) TRH 600 mug or placebo was administered intravenously on 4 consecutive days in a double-blind cross-over design and the schizophrenic symptoms were scored daily by use of two rating scales (CPRS and NOSIE).