What's the difference between motion and reptation?

Motion


Definition:

  • (n.) The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or involuntary; -- opposed to rest.
  • (n.) Power of, or capacity for, motion.
  • (n.) Direction of movement; course; tendency; as, the motion of the planets is from west to east.
  • (n.) Change in the relative position of the parts of anything; action of a machine with respect to the relative movement of its parts.
  • (n.) Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
  • (n.) A proposal or suggestion looking to action or progress; esp., a formal proposal made in a deliberative assembly; as, a motion to adjourn.
  • (n.) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant.
  • (n.) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts.
  • (n.) A puppet show or puppet.
  • (v. i.) To make a significant movement or gesture, as with the hand; as, to motion to one to take a seat.
  • (v. i.) To make proposal; to offer plans.
  • (v. t.) To direct or invite by a motion, as of the hand or head; as, to motion one to a seat.
  • (v. t.) To propose; to move.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In attacking the motion to freeze the licence fee during today's Parliamentary debate the culture secretary, Andy Burnham, criticised the Tory leader.
  • (2) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
  • (3) Based on our results, we propose the following hypotheses for the neurochemical mechanisms of motion sickness: (1) the histaminergic neuron system is involved in the signs and symptoms of motion sickness, including vomiting; (2) the acetylcholinergic neuron system is involved in the processes of habituation to motion sickness, including neural store mechanisms; and (3) the catecholaminergic neuron system in the brain stem is not related to the development of motion sickness.
  • (4) Full consideration should be given to the dynamics of motion when assessing risk factors in working tasks.
  • (5) It is proposed that microoscillations of the eye increase the threshold for detection of retinal target displacements, leading to less efficient lateral sway stabilization than expected, and that the threshold for detection of self motion in the A-P direction is lower than the threshold for object motion detection used in the calculations, leading to more efficient stabilization of A-P sway.
  • (6) Local minima of hand speed evident within segments of continuous motion were associated with turn toward the target.
  • (7) To evaluate the relationship between the motion pattern and degree of organic change of the anterior mitral leaflet (AML) and the features of the mitral component of the first heart sound (M1) or the opening snap (OS), 37 patients with mitral stenosis (MS) were studied by auscultation, phonocardiography and echocardiography.
  • (8) An unusually high degree of motional freedom is found for both these spin-labels, even in gel phase bilayers.
  • (9) A more accurate fit of T1 data using a modified Lipari and Szabo approach indicates that internal fast motions dominate the T1 relaxation in glycogen.
  • (10) 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.
  • (11) Clinical evaluation of passive range of motion, antero-posterior laxity and the appearance of the joint space showed little or no difference between the reconstruction methods.
  • (12) We present a paradigm to estimate local affine motion parallax structure from a varying image irradiance pattern.
  • (13) Echocardiographic findings included an abrupt midsystolic, posterior motion (greater than 3 mm beyond the CD line) in five patients, multiple sequence echoes in six, and posterior coaptation of the mitral valve near the left atrial wall in six.
  • (14) Results show that responses to motion of cortical cells are particularly sensitive to these manipulations.
  • (15) Interexaminer reliability studies indicate that a standard method of motion palpation is quite feasible and accurate.
  • (16) Rapid right ventricular pacing increased the extent and degree of dyskinesia of the left ventricle, but premedication with nicorandil improved the wall motion.
  • (17) A method using selective saturation pulses and gated spin-echo MRI automatically corrects for this motion and thus eliminates misregistration artifact from regional function analysis.
  • (18) The relative importance of these properties depends critically on the presence and mode of motion of the tectorial plate.
  • (19) Left ventricular asynchrony was quantified by the phase difference of the first Fourier harmonic between postero-basal and antero-apical wall motion.
  • (20) The Weinstein Company, which Harvey owns with his brother Bob, lost rights to the title on Tuesday following a ruling by the Motion Picture Association of America's arbitration board.

Reptation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of creeping.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Using fundamental concepts of hydrodynamics in porous media, we have rederived the Lumpkin-DèJardin-Zimm (LDZ) model for the gel electrophoresis of reptating, infinitely long, worm-like chains, such as DNA.
  • (2) Reptation theory predicts that channel gating will occur on the millisecond time scale and this is consistent with experimental results from single-channel recording.
  • (3) In polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, the retardation of DNA molecules containing regions of intrinsic curvature can be explained by a novel reptation model that includes the elastic free energy of the DNA chain.
  • (4) These observations cannot be explained either by sieving or by reptation mechanisms; transport was apparently controlled by spatial variations of chain configurational entropy.
  • (5) The biased reptation model provides a good framework for interpreting the results of continuous field DNA electrophoresis experiments performed in agarose gels.
  • (6) The dependence of effective radius on PE and the proximity of 2.PcE to the length of the rod are explained by (a) random orientation of rods at PE values in the region of the plateau, and (b) increasingly preferential end-first orientation (reptation) of the rod as PE decreases below PcE.
  • (7) The other process, slow, is characterized by a reptation time and a mean orientation factor in good agreement with the biased reptation model without overstretching.
  • (8) The electrophoretic differences were interpreted within the reptation theory to be mainly due to the molecular stiffness differences.
  • (9) It is shown that both the Ogston sieving and reptation migration mechanisms are operative.
  • (10) This apparent elongation indicates that end-on migration, or reptation is a likely mechanism for the electrophoresis of large DNA molecules in agarose gels.
  • (11) We apply a modified version of reptation dynamics to develop an actual physical model of ion channel gating.
  • (12) Calculations are presented showing that, when longer sequences are required, the maximum electrical field strength will be limited by the influence of biased reptation on the separation selectivity.
  • (13) In the case of a charged helix undergoing reptation in the presence of a transmembrane potential we show that the tail of the pdf will be exponential.
  • (14) Many of the concepts of polymer science can be applied successfully in a qualitative way to these cements, including the ideas of entanglements and reptation.
  • (15) The relaxation times of the stretched DNA molecules scale with molecular weight (or contour length) as N2.8, in reasonable agreement with reptation theories.
  • (16) The process was considered as dsDNA reptation through the phage tail.
  • (17) The kinetics of reptation process of dsDNA leaving the phage head is analysed theoretically.
  • (18) We apply the concepts of tube and reptation to the pulsed electrophoresis of DNA, considering both biased reptation and "breathing" modes (internal modes of the chain).
  • (19) We study the effect of electric field intensity and agarose gel concentration on the anomalous electrophoretic mobility recently predicted by the biased reptation model and experimentally observed for linear DNA fragments electrophoresed in continuous electric fields.
  • (20) As previously suggested, the transition from the linear to the concave segment corresponds to that from the randomly oriented DNA to the anisotropically stretched, "reptating" DNA.

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