What's the difference between plateaus and volcanoes?

Plateaus


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Plateau

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Open reduction and internal fixation with anterior compartment fasciotomy for fractures of both tibial plateaus in a 36-year-old woman was complicated by deep-vein thrombosis three days after surgery.
  • (2) With 50mM p-nitrophenyl phosphate as a substrate, enzymes II and III exhibit plateaus of activity over the pH range 3 - 5 and 3.5 - 6, respectively.
  • (3) Despite the freezing curve assayed, both the mini-straws and the bags depicted much shorter freezing point plateaus as compared to the maxi-straws.
  • (4) Sodium inactivation curves, normalized to I(pmax) values obtained at either the first or second plateaus, were significantly different in different [K(o)].
  • (5) Lp(a) levels are low at birth and rise significantly between 0 and 7 days post partum; in this newborn population, a continuous rise of the mean Lp(a) levels was observed until 180 days, in contrast with the apo B concentration that plateaus after 7 days.
  • (6) Nine had bilateral total hip arthroplasty and one had bilateral total knee arthroplasty for osteonecrosis of the tibial plateaus.
  • (7) For the relaxation reaction, maximum enzyme activity plateaus after 2.5 mM Mg2+.
  • (8) Histologically, corticosteroids significantly reduced the severity of OA structural changes of the cartilage on both medial and lateral femoral condyles and tibial plateaus in operated animals, with the exception of the lateral plateaus of those treated orally.
  • (9) Two binding plateaus were observed when increasing amounts of adriamycin were added to mitochondria.
  • (10) As the number of preventable trauma-related deaths plateaus as a result of trauma system development, new directions for quality improvement in trauma care must come from analyzing morbidity with standardized methods to establish thresholds for provider-related and disease-specific complications.
  • (11) Cartilage specimens from medial and lateral tibial plateaus were analyzed for DNA, proteoglycan content, and neutral proteoglycan degrading activity.
  • (12) The observations that the calculated permeation rate of the micelle should be extremely low, the rate of mucosal cell uptake plateaus at a constant value when the critical micelle concentration is reached at the aqueous-lipid interface, and the different components of a mixed micelle are taken up at different rates indicate that uptake of the intact micelle does not occur; rather, bile acid absorption must be explained in terms of monomers in equilibrium with the micelle.
  • (13) Repeated exponentially decreasing infusions have been used to administer theophylline and enprofylline to show whether it would be feasible to create consecutive plasma concentration plateaus within a few hours.
  • (14) Analysis of respiratory gases during maximal treadmill exercise testing has been used in patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) to detect the lactate threshold, presumed to reflect the onset of skeletal muscle underperfusion, and maximal oxygen consumption (VO2), the point at which VO2 plateaus with increasing work due to exhaustion of peripheral oxygen delivery capacity.
  • (15) Intravenous infusion of rh-renin produced dose-dependent progressive increases in MBP during the first 40 min, reaching plateaus and thereafter MBP was maintained up to 120 min.
  • (16) A plot of the maximum percentage increase in the EPSP against the stimulus frequency described three "steps," with plateaus occurring at 0.3-10 Hz, 10-50 Hz, and over 80 Hz.
  • (17) Assuming a correlation between the two plateaus observed upon binding of adriamycin to the mitochondria and the penetration of the drug into the two leaflets of the inner membrane [Cheneval et al.
  • (18) In addition, humeral heads were affected in seven patients and the tibial plateaus, in three.
  • (19) The K+-nitrophenylphosphatase activity associated with mammalian brain (Na+ + K+)-ATPase displays K+ activation curves that have intermediary plateaus and maxima in the presence of less than saturating concentrations of Na+.
  • (20) In dispersed acini from guinea pig pancreas, natural and synthetic exendin-4 stimulate a monophasic increase in cAMP beginning at 100 pM that plateaus at 10 nM.

Volcanoes


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Volcano

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That suggests they are being replenished by sulphur dioxide, most probably from volcanoes.
  • (2) In 1995 8,000 people whose lives were ruined by the Montserrat volcano settled in Britain.
  • (3) Inside the Islamic State ‘capital’: no end in sight to its grim rule Read more The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia and an alliance of rebels known as the “Euphrates Volcano” – backed US-led coalition air strikes – have seized swaths of territory from Isis, including the strategic border town of Tal Abyad .
  • (4) On the edge of Goma, in the shadow of the active Nyiragongo volcano, Mugunga hosts some of the 30,000 people who fled their homes following the upsurge of fighting that began in April.
  • (5) "Previous eruptions there are not well characterised, because it's such a poorly-known volcano.
  • (6) Over the weekend, forecasters fed the dispersion model with data on the amount of ash being churned out by the volcano.
  • (7) The principal investigator, Matthew Watson , a former UK government scientific adviser on emergencies and now a Bristol University lecturer, says the experiment is inspired by volcanoes and the way they can affect the climate after eruptions.
  • (8) She said: "First they suffered greatly in the civil war and now they are forced to flee their homes by a volcano."
  • (9) Astronomers have spotted the most distant galaxy ever seen after a faint ray of light struck a telescope on a volcano in the middle of the Pacific.
  • (10) But he said: ‘Don’t worry, we’ll find him a position.’ So they played him as a centre-half.” Volcano!
  • (11) For our last three days, we do a northern triangle of hot spots – whale watching at Húsavik, swimming at Hofsós infinity pool and the volcanoes of Mývatn .
  • (12) Energyhelpline describes the retail market as being "like a volcano about to blow".
  • (13) That shadow bears a subtle but clear similarity to the silhouette of one of Mexico City’s volcanoes, the Iztaccihuatl – also known as La Mujer Dormida (“The Sleeping Woman”).
  • (14) Perched some 11,000ft up a volcano, the Mauna Loa observatory has been measuring carbon dioxide in the atmosphere since 1958.
  • (15) As the volcano continued to belch smoke above the town, people dusted off the ashes and rebuilt the North Kivu capital.
  • (16) "We have 100 million people living in places that are prone to disasters, including volcanoes, earthquakes and floods," said Dody Ruswandi at the government's national disaster management agency (BNPB).
  • (17) While the experiment may not harm the climate, environmental groups say that the global environmental risks of solar geoengineering have been amply identified through modelling and the study of the impacts of sulphuric dust emitted by volcanoes.
  • (18) This is the state reaping rewards for years of policy … [It may be] that officials are going further than Beijing expects, but that this is working on top of what is already a volcano."
  • (19) Throw Martin Demichelis into an active volcano?” 2.35pm GMT 33 mins A corer to City.
  • (20) So-called mud volcanoes are pretty common along this Makran coast, and elsewhere they are often found to have enigmatic teleconnections with large earthquakes.

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