What's the difference between prevision and scenario?

Prevision


Definition:

  • (n.) Foresight; foreknowledge; prescience.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The standard metabolism of Aotus trivirgatus (Night monkey, Owl monkey) is 22.5 to 46.2 per cent below Kleiber's prevision curve for mammals, which applies to other cebid monkeys like Saimiri sciureus and Alouatta.
  • (2) The level of specific herd immunity towards epidemic strains is an important factor of prevision.
  • (3) The other 32 patients were not submitted to renal biopsy; in sediment and band test, may be of value in the prevision of patients with higher probability of developing more serious renal lesions.
  • (4) Furthermore, it is obvious that it is necessary to use a "multivariable" method for a better prevision of the cutaneous changes after facial osteotomies, specially for the lips.
  • (5) The behaviour pattern which arises from this reaction depends on the species, but varies according to the possibilities of prevision and control of the aggression.
  • (6) 3) The PBA is easy to handle on a large scale, using multiple peptide and several MHC molecules, so that it can be used as a routine method for prevision of possibly epitopic sequences.
  • (7) It is necessary to have these equipment in all hospitals and health centers in the area of a previsible disaster.
  • (8) Choice of sex in children with ambiguous genitalia requires morphological evaluation of external and internal genitalia together with prevision of the kind of pubertal and psychosexual development.
  • (9) The results are compared to the initial situation and to a prevision of growth without treatment.
  • (10) We conclude that data concerning the influence of a drug (in our case, allopurinol) on the metabolism of another drug cannot always authorize general deduction and previsions regarding the metabolic interferences on the pharmacokinetics of other substances.
  • (11) With a few examples the author describes briefly the role of epidemiological models to produce reliable previsions, the principles ruling their construction, their use on computer to simulate known epidemiological situations as well as the impact of interventions on the disease dynamics.
  • (12) As previsously demonstrated for 1'-acetoxysafrole, 1'-acetoxyestragole and 1'-acetoxy-1-allyl-4-methoxynaphthalene reacted nonenzymatically with guanosine and inosine to form adducts.
  • (13) Such modified criteria have improved the accuracy of LVH prevision.
  • (14) The neuropsychological study of three cases of FFI showed: (1) a progressive disturbance of attention and vigilance, (2) a memory deficit with lability of mnesic traces and difficulty in manipulation and ordering of events, suggesting an alteration of working memory and (3) a deficit of frontal abilities with impairment in planning and prevision of events but preservation of general intelligence.
  • (15) The authors believe that it is expedient to study bronchial hyperreactivity in patients with hay fever and rhinitis vasomotorica nonallergica in that it affords possibilities for the prevision of the conceivable unfavourable evolution of the disease towards the atopic or non-atopic bronchial asthma, as well as for the taking of adequate preventive and therapeutic measures.
  • (16) This leads to the prevision of very low barriers and amounts for the CNDO method to the failure in the prevision of some minima.
  • (17) The lung cancer is one of the lesser prevised cancer and the five year relative survival rate is 6.5% for both sexes in 1982-1983.
  • (18) Particularly, punctual time predictability of radon concentration would no longer be possible, but a new prevision strategy would be necessary, considering the chaotic behavior of the phenomenon.
  • (19) The Oslo declaration, he argued, was weighted unfairly towards Israel; the scenario, previsioning an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and Jericho in advance of the other territories and agreement on the final status of Jerusalem, amounted to "an instrument of Palestinian surrender, a Palestinian Versailles".

Scenario


Definition:

  • (n.) A preliminary sketch of the plot, or main incidents, of an opera.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We didn’t take anyone’s votes for granted and we have run a very strong positive campaign.” Asked if she expected Ukip to run have Labour so close, she said: “To be honest with you I have been through more or less every scenario.
  • (2) As Russian companies Polymetal, Polyus Gold and Evraz race to join Eurasian Natural Resources as FTSE100 companies, despite their murky practices, because of London's incredibly lax listing requirements, one future scenario is becoming clearer.
  • (3) According to the International Energy Agency, 147m Indians will remain without electricity into 2030 under a business as usual scenario emphasising coal.
  • (4) In the lowest prevalence scenario (0.02 initial prevalence), initiation of the program resulted in a projected savings of 2.3 life years per HIV-negative drug user, compared with 1.7 and 1.3 years under medium (0.25) and high (0.60) prevalence, respectively.
  • (5) They anticipated the following scenario: a struggling club fires its manager and enjoys an immediate upsurge.
  • (6) Even under the most optimistic scenarios, shale gas is projected to meet just 10% of European gas demand by 2030.
  • (7) The best scenario used in the new YATR strip each Sunday wins a shirt to the value of £50 from Kitbag .
  • (8) Each of the scenarios is divided into graded challenges.
  • (9) While they might technically have been denied a majority in that scenario, making up the two missing seats would have been trivial.
  • (10) This is the doomsday scenario, but according to a leaked report of the Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation – a team of university professors, lawyers and journalists who spent six months investigating Japan's response to the triple meltdown at the plant – it could all too easily have happened.
  • (11) But it is easier to foresee scenarios in which Italian growth and inflation are even weaker than now projected, and debt ratios keep rising.
  • (12) In any scenario, I can give an absolute guarantee that average pay for juniors will not reduce.” All you need to know about '#thehunteffect' Read more On working hours, Hunt wrote: “I can give an absolute guarantee to junior doctors that this contract will not impose longer hours.
  • (13) This review considers the biophysics of penetrating missile wounds, highlights some of the more common misconceptions and seeks to reconcile the conflicting and confusing management doctrines that are promulgated in the literature-differences that arise not only from two scenarios, peace and war, but also from misapprehensions of the wounding process.
  • (14) The testing found that ATEbank would have a Tier 1 capital ratio of 4.36% under the most adverse scenario, leaving it short of €242.6m.
  • (15) Could I see a scenario if he was PM and he asked me to do something?
  • (16) Under one scenario, a caretaker prime minister would take over until the next national election.
  • (17) An additional effect of the scenario is a considerable saving in total expenses for dental health care.
  • (18) Should we worry about the SF scenario – that a network of computers could develop a mind of its own and threaten us all?
  • (19) Six scenarios for human exposure were examined, based primarily on measured air and water concentrations of total hydrocarbons, benzene, xylenes, and toluene.
  • (20) The worst possible scenario, the report said, would be a 10-minute release of ammonia gas that would kill or injure no one.