What's the difference between notification and observation?

Notification


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of notifying, or giving notice; the act of making known; especially, the act of giving official notice or information to the public or to individuals, corporations, companies, or societies, by words, by writing, or by other means.
  • (n.) Notice given in words or writing, or by signs.
  • (n.) The writing which communicates information; an advertisement, or citation, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These findings indicated that notifications from the clinic were being made in accordance with internationally accepted practice.
  • (2) A survey of all notifications of tuberculosis in children (aged less than 15 years) in England and Wales in 1983 showed a decline of 35% in the estimated annual number of previously untreated children notified since the previous survey in 1978-9.
  • (3) To have a blanket rule of pre-notification really concerns me in terms of the crucial importance for journalists to go out there and investigate wrongdoing," he said.
  • (4) Of these 361 notifications, 59 (16%) patients have had concurrent mycobacterial infection.
  • (5) For these 578 cases there were 884 notifications coming principally from the control services of the Social Security and public hospitals.
  • (6) The EAW is one of 35 measures the government is seeking to opt back into after having opted out of a raft of more than 100 EU policies relating to justice and home affairs last year, when Cameron wrote to the EU council presidency to give formal notification of the government’s intention to exercise the block opt-out.
  • (7) However, she was also clear that she was sticking to the mantra of the EU27 when it came to Brexit – that there would be no negotiation without notification , even on the issue of EU citizens.
  • (8) Accidents were identified using the notification system from accident and emergency departments to health visitors.
  • (9) Cases were selected from notifications of tuberculosis and controls were selected from child health or school health records in 14 English health districts.
  • (10) In 1990, the Norwegian Directorate of Health recommended that victims of rape and violence all over the country--independent of police notification--be offered a medical and a medico-legal examination and follow-up.
  • (11) Accurate notification of the underlying cause of death and associated diseases is required for the precise monitoring of trends in mortality from AIDS and possible identification of unrecognised conditions associated with HIV infection.
  • (12) The Paediatric Association is not in favor of a central registry or any form of notification, and decisions should not be delegated to ethical committees.
  • (13) On Wednesday, the director of the charity said the US military did not give prior notification of the airstrike, in an apparent violation of the Pentagon’s own instructions on the rules of war.
  • (14) Central Command also said at the time Iran had provided only 23 minutes of advance notification of its intention to fire rockets.
  • (15) They have only introduced about half of the national standard … it’s bloody incredible.” Harris and others pushed for Western Australia to copy New South Wales, which has had a mandatory custody notification scheme since 2000.
  • (16) Evaluation of the official notifications from 1971 to 1983 shows that viral disease represented only 2.7% of the diseases with public health impact in Transkei, and that measles and poliomyelitis are prevalent.
  • (17) The Aboriginal Legal Service in New South Wales has a 24-hour custody notification service – a measure recommended by the 1991 royal commission but enacted in no other states or territories.
  • (18) However, cancer screening and risk notification might have adverse psychologic and social consequences as well.
  • (19) The much greater reduction in the rate of decline in the Indian ethnic group is due to the substantial decline between the surveys in the proportion of recent immigrants, the group with the highest annual notification rate, in that population.
  • (20) Extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB) remains a major health problem in Australia, with 24.3% of all new tuberculosis notifications in 1984 of extrapulmonary origin.

Observation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or the faculty of observing or taking notice; the act of seeing, or of fixing the mind upon, anything.
  • (n.) The result of an act, or of acts, of observing; view; reflection; conclusion; judgment.
  • (n.) Hence: An expression of an opinion or judgment upon what one has observed; a remark.
  • (n.) Performance of what is prescribed; adherence in practice; observance.
  • (n.) The act of recognizing and noting some fact or occurrence in nature, as an aurora, a corona, or the structure of an animal.
  • (n.) Specifically, the act of measuring, with suitable instruments, some magnitude, as the time of an occultation, with a clock; the right ascension of a star, with a transit instrument and clock; the sun's altitude, or the distance of the moon from a star, with a sextant; the temperature, with a thermometer, etc.
  • (n.) The information so acquired.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The patterns observed were: clusters of granules related to the cell membrane; positive staining localized to portions of the cell membrane, and, less commonly, the whole cell circumference.
  • (2) However, this deficit was observed only when the sample-place preceded but not when it followed the interpolated visits (second experiment).
  • (3) In conclusion, in S-rats a glucose-stimulated insulin release is accompanied by an increase in IBF, but this is not observed in P-rats.
  • (4) The combined immediate and delayed responses to fleas in the dog are as observed by other investigators in man and guinea pigs.
  • (5) However, when cross-linked to anti-CD4 or anti-CD8 antibodies a markedly enhanced proliferation of the corresponding subpopulation is observed.
  • (6) Using monoclonal antibodies directed against the plasma membrane of Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells, we demonstrated previously that a glycoprotein with an Mr = 23,000 (gp23) had a non-polarized cell surface distribution and was observed on both the apical and basolateral membranes (Ojakian, G. K., Romain, R. E., and Herz, R. E. (1987) Am.
  • (7) Stimulation is also observed with mixtures of APC expressing DPw3 and APC expressing A1, and likewise, DPw3+ APC become stimulatory when preincubated with supernatants from A1-positive cells.
  • (8) For this reason, these observations should not be disregarded.
  • (9) No differences between the two substances were observed with respect to side effects and general tolerability.
  • (10) The testing of other models and their failure to describe the kinetic observations are discussed.
  • (11) The extrusion of granules into the intercellular space via exocytosis is frequently observed.
  • (12) The time of observation varied between 2 and 17 years.
  • (13) Insensitive variants die more slowly than wild type cells, with 10-20% cell death observed within 24 h after addition of dexamethasone.
  • (14) The subcellular distribution of sialyltransferase and its product of action, sialic acid, was investigated in the undifferentiated cells of the rat intestinal crypts and compared with the pattern observed in the differentiated cells present in the surface epithelium.
  • (15) No reaction product was observed in the lamellar areas.
  • (16) Cyanoacrylate and PDS coatings were not detectable after 6 weeks while PHBA and PLLA coatings were still observed after 48 weeks.
  • (17) A total of 13 ascertainments of folate sensitive autosomal fragile sites is observed, of which 10q23 fragility appears to be the most frequent.
  • (18) This new observation offers good possibilities to study the metabolism of tryptophan at the cellular level.
  • (19) These membrane perturbation effects not observed with bleomycin-iron in the presence of a hydroxyl radical scavenger, dimethyl thiourea, or a chelating agent, desferrioxamine, were correlated with the ability of the complex to generate highly reactive oxygen species.
  • (20) The fluctuations in [Ca2+]i measured with fura-2 were synchronized among the population of cells observed and were sensitive to extracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]o).