What's the difference between observance and unobservance?

Observance


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or practice of observing or noticing with attention; a heeding or keeping with care; performance; -- usually with a sense of strictness and fidelity; as, the observance of the Sabbath is general; the strict observance of duties.
  • (n.) An act, ceremony, or rite, as of worship or respect; especially, a customary act or service of attention; a form; a practice; a rite; a custom.
  • (n.) Servile attention; sycophancy.

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).

Unobservance


Definition:

  • (n.) Want or neglect of observance; inobservance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The analysis is flexible, allowing a variety of assumptions to account for experimental errors and difficulties, such as unobserved fragments.
  • (2) Current-generation CT scanners enable the visualization in vivo of structures and substructures that were previously unobservable.
  • (3) This drop results from small changes in the probabilities of unobserved events.
  • (4) In their thoughts and in their personal environments and communications, all humans have the right to remain unobserved and unmolested.
  • (5) Some recent trends towards models which invoke complex and unobservable mechanisms to explain affect may provide a temporarily convenient framework for talking about highly complex phenomena.
  • (6) Previously unobserved signals were located in the 470-MHz 1H NMR spectra of oxidized and reduced rubredoxin (Rd) from Clostridium pasteurianum.
  • (7) We report on unobserved, sudden, and unexpected deaths that occurred in a randomized multicenter trial.
  • (8) It was found that this kind of audiometry may help detect early symptoms of hearing impairment on a neurosensory basis which remain unobservable in conventional audiography.
  • (9) Ecologic estimates can be more sensitive to these sources of bias than individual-level estimates, primarily because ecologic estimates are based on extrapolations to an unobserved conditional (individual-level) distribution.
  • (10) "False positive" tests, possibly indicating an unobserved or latent type of allergy, were found more often with higher serum IgE concentrations.
  • (11) Instead, for measuring the unobserved effectiveness of health providers and health expenditures, infant mortality rate has been chosen as the indicator.
  • (12) This previously unobserved signal, which is also observed on reaction of metmyoglobin with a number of other powerful oxidants (peracetic acid, 3-chloroperoxybenzoic acid, monoperoxyphthalic acid, iodosyl benzene, tBuOOH and cumene hydroperoxide) is assigned to a slowly-tumbling, metmyoglobin-derived, spin adduct.
  • (13) A case of sinus pericranii is reported because of a previously unobserved clinical feature.
  • (14) By examining how physiological states and the behaviour of individuals changed according to trap type, we are able to make inferences about the timing and importance of a number of unobserved activities.
  • (15) Myogenesis was reduced in stage-15 somites and unobservable in stage-12 somites; however, recombination of stage-12 somites with epithelium or neural tube increased the incidence of myogenesis at this stage.
  • (16) Specific antibodies were detected in piglets that had presumably not ingested colostrum, but the possibility of unobserved ingestion of colostrum could not be excluded.
  • (17) Implementation of the stochastic compartment techniques in this case depends on the selection of certain mathematical expressions from theories of carcinogenesis, epidemiologic studies and animal studies which allow the calculation of transition probabilities to unobserved states by making them explicit functions of time or age.
  • (18) An until now unobserved consistent antigenic structure, tentatively named "common epitope 1," was detected on molecules of human recombinant (rHu) IFN-alpha 2 and natural HuIFN-beta by testing with monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies.
  • (19) This heretofore unobserved equilibrium and kinetic behavior of model IC in solution may be reflected in the behavior of more complex, naturally occurring IC.
  • (20) SPM4+ appears to increase the amplitude of an unobserved fast phase(s) for refolding of the native enzyme.

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