What's the difference between navigable and steerable?
Navigable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being navigated; deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to vessels; as, a navigable river.
Example Sentences:
(1) BigDog Facebook Twitter Pinterest BigDog is a autonomous packhorse Funded by Darpa and the US army, BigDog is Boston Dynamics’ most famous robot, a large mule-like quadruped that walks around like a dog, self balancing and navigating a range of terrain.
(2) An error and covariances analysis shows that the method is robust and accurate enough for autonomous navigation.
(3) "GNH is an aspiration, a set of guiding principles through which we are navigating our path towards a sustainable and equitable society.
(4) Since the introduction of universal credit we’ve made sure staff know how to support customers navigating the new claim system.
(5) It is clear that different subsets of navigational cues guide sensory afferents to muscle and to cutaneous destinations.
(6) But US security experts criticised the administration for appearing to time its intervention to suit conflicting agendas of the Asean and Paris summits rather than more boldly assert the principle of freedom of navigation.
(7) Instead it said that the changing of the settings – which previously required users to navigate through up to 150 different settings to control who could see their data, to a simpler four-tiered version plus a "customise" option – was "merely a red herring".
(8) Further, the results identify the hippocampus as a structure critical for the regulation of navigational behavior that manifests itself in a natural setting.
(9) Right parietal lesions resulted in deficits in both tasks, but especially landmark navigation.
(10) Daballen navigates the jeep between thorn bushes and over furrows, guided by a rising moon and his intimate knowledge of the terrain.
(11) Lord Freud revealed his futuristic vision of how people could soon claim benefits, suggesting ultimately claimants might take advantage of the development of internet eye-glasses by Google – which allows users to surf the internet on the lens of a pair of glasses, using eye movement to navigate the web and make benefits claims.
(12) The thinktank added: “It will be interesting to watch next week how Mr Osborne navigates these treacherous waters and avoids the obstacles he constructed for himself.
(13) It's only when you try to navigate the system for an elderly relative that you realise how an older person's wellbeing and resilience matter less than the place in the NHS hierarchy of the hospital consultant, GP and social worker.
(14) From its earliest days, Facebook has navigated – even pioneered – the territory around privacy, and how we express our personal identities online.
(15) We are considering how to demonstrate freedom of navigation in an area that is critical to world trade,” a US official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
(16) Our findings are consistent with the hypothesis that navigating axons may respond to multiple guidance cues during development.
(17) Despite Trump’s enthusiasm for Kushner, he will have to navigate a US anti-nepotism law that states a public official “may not appoint, employ, promote, advance, or advocate for appointment … any individual who is a relative of the public official”.
(18) But I also know, from my own family’s navigation of a shocking event, that there can be the inverse response as well.
(19) The rats also showed good acquisition of escape response in a water maze task carried out 13 weeks after ischemia, but showed slight impairment of spatial navigation in the transfer test.
(20) This mode of navigation can be modeled as an input control process that selectively retains favorable and rejects unfavorable consequences of the random responses.
Steerable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being steered; dirigible.
Example Sentences:
(1) The steerable guide wire enabled the angioscopic catheter to be accurately and safely inserted into the target lesion in all cases.
(2) This was accomplished by use of a new coaxial infusion catheter-steerable guidewire system passed through the superior mesenteric artery and posterior pancreatic arcade.
(3) The transducertip is connected with a handle by a flexible yet steerable shaft.
(4) A steerable brush was described several years ago, but it was somewhat difficult to accurately maneuver, and long-term results were never reported.
(5) The most significant technical problems were lack of steerability and insufficient irrigation, which resulted in poor angiographic images.
(6) However, the introduction of the steerable or guidewire-directed dilation catheter has altered the learning curve.
(7) After identification of the earliest retrograde atrial activation site, a steerable 7F catheter (with a 4-mm-long electrode at the distal tip) was placed within the ventricular cavity ipsilateral to the accessory connection and positioned at the atrioventricular valve annulus directly opposite the earliest point of retrograde atrial activation.
(8) In the remaining four dogs a steerable guide wire was advanced across the thrombus and a catheter was passed over the guide wire and exchanged for a 200 micron core optical fiber.
(9) We present our experience with open-ended guidewire (OEGW) associated with steerable guidewires (SGW) as superselective catheters for intraarterial chemotherapeutic infusion and embolization.
(10) The development of a steerable hysteroscope should enhance the potential for the transcervical approach and the types of devices that can be implanted.
(11) Incomplete studies in approximately 14% of patients were related to failure to achieve these technical details and lack of scope steerability.
(12) A 7 F steerable large tip catheter was used for energy delivery.
(13) Thus: 1) the 3F Doppler coronary catheter is nonobstructing, steerable and safe; 2) there is an excellent correlation of blood flow velocity with volume collections; and 3) the catheter provides a reliable method of determining coronary blood flow velocity and coronary vasodilator reserve.
(14) These 20 consecutive steerable coronary angioplasty procedures included eight single left anterior descending lesions, two double (lesions located in series) left anterior descending lesions, six single right coronary lesions, one double (lesions located in series) right coronary lesion, and three single circumflex lesions.
(15) Of the 90 attempts with the exclusive use of the steerable system, 75 were successful (83%).
(16) With modern materials such as steerable guide wires and low-profile balloon catheters, dilation of crural arteries has become safe.
(17) However, on occasion steerable guidewire placement remains extremely difficult, despite significantly improved means of intracoronary manipulations.
(18) The steerable guiding catheter described here may prove useful for PTCA in cases where a conventional catheter cannot be placed accurately or in cases with multi-vessel coronary disease.
(19) A steerable system was used in 29 patients whereas a fixed guide wire system was used in 38.
(20) We used a guiding catheter, a coronary infusion catheter, and a relatively stiff steerable guide wire to perforate the occlusion.