What's the difference between production and slowdown?

Production


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness.
  • (n.) That which is produced, yielded, or made, whether naturally, or by the application of intelligence and labor; as, the productions of the earth; the productions of handicraft; the productions of intellect or genius.
  • (n.) The act of lengthening out or prolonging.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The accumulation of lipids and enzymes such as simple estarase, lipase, beta-HDH, alpha-GDH and NADPH-reductase in those areas, suggests that lipids are not a simple excretory product.
  • (2) However, when first trimester specimens were analyzed, the direct-product measurements were significantly larger than the corresponding 3H2O assay results.
  • (3) Heart rate (HR), pulmonary ventilation (V), oxygen consumption (VO2), carbon dioxide production (VCO2), and respiratory quotient (RQ) were measured.
  • (4) The second amino acid residue influences not only the rate of reaction but also the extent of formation of the product of the Amadori rearrangement, the ketoamine.
  • (5) 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.
  • (6) No reaction product was observed in the lamellar areas.
  • (7) Marked enhancement of IFN-gamma production by T cells was seen in the presence of as little as 0.3% thymic DC.
  • (8) Collagen production of rapidly thawed ligaments was studied by proline incubation at 1 day, 9 days, or 6 weeks after freezing and was compared with that of contralateral fresh controls.
  • (9) Under blood preservation conditions the difference of the rates of ATP-production and -consumption is the most important factor for a high ATP-level over long periods.
  • (10) This theory was confirmed by product analysis and by measuring the affinity of the substrate for the enzyme by its inhibition of p-nitrophenyl glucoside hydrolysis.
  • (11) We maximize an objective function that includes both total production rate and product concentration.
  • (12) The rate of accumulation of degraded LDL products was lower in collagen gel cultures, but the final levels achieved were the same in the two substrata.
  • (13) Bradykinin also stimulated arachidonic acid release in decidual fibroblasts, an effect which was potentiated in the presence of epidermal growth factor (EGF), but which was not accompanied by an increase in PGF2 alpha production.
  • (14) First, it has diverted grain away from food for fuel, with over a third of US corn now used to produce ethanol and about half of vegetable oils in the EU going towards the production of biodiesel.
  • (15) A possible role for mitochondria in myocardial adenosine production is discussed.
  • (16) The models are applied to estimate the demand for tobacco products in Finland.
  • (17) In the clinical trials in which there was complete substitution of fat-modified ruminant foods for conventional ruminant products the fall in serum cholesterol was approximately 10%.
  • (18) In the present study, respirometric quotients, the ratio of oral air volume expended to total volume expended, were obtained using separate but simultaneous productions of oral and nasal airflow.
  • (19) We report on a patient, with a CT-verified low density lesion in the right parietal area, who exhibited not only deficits in left conceptual space, but also in reading, writing, and the production of speech.
  • (20) The possibility that both IL 2 production and IL 2R expression are autonomously activated early in T cell development, before acquisition of the CD3-TcR complex, led us to study the implication of alternative pathways of activation at this ontogenic stage.

Slowdown


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) China’s stock market rout Shanghai stocks Chinese shares have tumbled in recent weeks against the backdrop of a slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy .
  • (2) A slowdown in foreign markets played a part in Britain's worse than expected trade deficit in July, though manufacturing made gains in line with improvements in Britain's domestic performance.
  • (3) Rather than experiencing a slowdown in its frenetic building sector, however, Kabul is increasingly overrun with precarious apartment blocks.
  • (4) Amna Asa, economist at Capital Economics , said: "The slowdown in global economic growth appears to have hit American manufacturers in April.
  • (5) Governments must defeat a rising tide of protectionism to prevent a further slowdown in global growth, the head of the International Monetary Fund has said.
  • (6) Fears are rising however that external tensions such as Russia's dispute with the west over Ukraine might exacerbate a slowdown in the UK if it starts to weigh on the economy in Europe – Britain's biggest trading partner.
  • (7) Pushing for change at the same time as the harshest ever slowdown in spending on the NHS may be justifiable.
  • (8) Industries such as retail, leisure and travel are also expected to experience a slowdown in their recovery.
  • (9) Chipmaker ARM is the biggest faller in London, as analysts fret about a slowdown in royalty revenues.
  • (10) So while many have claimed Britain was worst placed of any to withstand the global slowdown, the OECD and IMF have both shown that Britain last year had the highest growth of any of the G7 countries.
  • (11) A total of 71,638 loans were approved for house purchase, above the previous six-month average of 65,001 and the highest monthly figure since January 2008 when the credit crisis and economic slowdown started to take hold of the market.
  • (12) The US has released new figures showing shale output growing, while Chinese economic data all points to further factory slowdowns.
  • (13) But if "the slowdown reflects longer-lasting forces bearing down on activity", the implications are more profound.
  • (14) A slowdown in the rate of expansion in the first three months of the year is helpful to Gordon Brown's central message in the election campaign that the UK is too weak to withstand spending cuts this year.
  • (15) City economists expect the first official estimate of growth in the fourth quarter of 2013 to show a slight slowdown from previous month but still put the UK's recovery ahead of that in other western European countries.
  • (16) Oil prices remained below $50 a barrel, down from more than $110 a barrel last summer when the slowdown in China first became apparent.
  • (17) And as Wednesday's news of the biggest monthly drop in retail sales for more than two years indicates, this slowdown has spread along the high street.
  • (18) Commodity prices have slumped in reaction to the slowdown among some of the world’s biggest manufacturing nations.
  • (19) That slowdown would have a knock-on effect on the government’s finances and so borrowing was expected to be significantly higher than at the time of Osborne’s final budget back in March.
  • (20) With a sharp economic slowdown no consumer business is immune," Darroch added.