What's the difference between session and symposium?

Session


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.
  • (n.) The actual sitting of a court, council, legislature, etc., or the actual assembly of the members of such a body, for the transaction of business.
  • (n.) Hence, also, the time, period, or term during which a court, council, legislature, etc., meets daily for business; or, the space of time between the first meeting and the prorogation or adjournment; thus, a session of Parliaments is opened with a speech from the throne, and closed by prorogation. The session of a judicial court is called a term.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
  • (2) Accuracy of discrimination of letters at various preselected distances was determined each session while Ortho-rater examinations were given periodically throughout training.
  • (3) Twenty volunteers were used for the measurement of pedal pressures for 15 trials during three separate sessions.
  • (4) In common with other studies, we found that the injury occurred in competitive runners, especially females, and was likely to develop during competitive races or intensive training sessions.
  • (5) With feedback, the rate of decrease in error over sessions was similiar for both levels of IQ.
  • (6) lengths with the subjects equally divided into these four groups: distributed trials, distributed sessions; distributed trials, massed sessions; massed trials, distributed sessions; and massed trials, massed sessions.
  • (7) In a second set of test sessions, volunteers chewed sugarless gum for 10 minutes, starting 15 minutes after they ate the snack food.
  • (8) Successful extraction occurred during a single session in 125 of 219 patients (57%); 60 of 219 patients required two extraction sessions.
  • (9) This paper describes a teaching process in which two 4th year medical students learn a family approach to problem solving during a short clerkship of twelve hours spread over four weekly sessions.
  • (10) Superior memory for the word list was found when the odor present during the relearning session was the same one that had been present at the time of initial learning, thereby demonstrating context-dependent memory.
  • (11) On the reaction time task no main effects were found but the time X drinker category interaction was significant; in session 1 LSD's RT were shorter than those of HSD.
  • (12) Therefore, a study using 2-dimensional and M-mode backscatter imaging was performed in 20 normal male subjects by 2 observers at an initial session and by 1 of the observers after 1 week.
  • (13) The effects of learning history were evident on sessions 4 and 5 when the same consequence was contingent upon the performance of all groups.
  • (14) Chapter three Administration of the camps The preparatory camp is the first home and school of the mujahid in which his military and jihadi training sessions take place and he undergoes sufficient education in matters of his religion, life and jihad.
  • (15) Twenty-four hours later, a stimulus generalization test was conducted in the absence of drug; during this session, tones that varied in frequency around 4.5 KHz were presented while the animals were responding under the VI schedule.
  • (16) When S+ followed cocaine, stereotyped bar-pressing developed with markedly increased responding during the remainder of the session.
  • (17) In the other component, the discriminative stimuli were the same each session (performance).
  • (18) Efferent units with spontaneous activity were uncommon at the start of the recording sessions but were more frequently encountered later in the experiments.
  • (19) Seventy male subjects participated in a six session study of feedback-mediated heart rate modification.
  • (20) In 92 percent of the patients the thoraco-abdominal aorta and its branches were well documented on 2 orthogonal projections performed in one single session.

Symposium


Definition:

  • (n.) A drinking together; a merry feast.
  • (n.) A collection of short essays by different authors on a common topic; -- so called from the appellation given to the philosophical dialogue by the Greeks.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This article, a review of factors controlling vasopressin (AVP) release in pregnancy, extends our contribution to a symposium in this journal published in 1987 (vol X, pp 270-275).
  • (2) During the 1985 annual meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons in Honolulu, neurosurgical training and practice in India, Korea, Japan, and Australasia were discussed at the International Committee symposium.
  • (3) This explains why this symposium is devoted to NSAIDs and elderly.
  • (4) A symposium entitled "Foetal and Neonatal Cell Transplantation and Retroviral Gene Therapy" recently organized under the aegis of the Mérieux Foundation in Annecy, France, brought together 100 scientists and clinicians from European countries and the United States.
  • (5) This paper reviews the most important issues discussed in a 2-day symposium on corporate exposure limits which was sponsored by the AIHA Workplace Environment Exposure Limits Committee (WEEL).
  • (6) The virtues of transvaginal scanning both in gynecology and obstetrics are well described in subsequent articles in this symposium.
  • (7) This sounds very much like the reaction of most participants of the Edinburgh symposium to the proposals of Gitelson.
  • (8) The intramuscular imipenem formulation has been proven to be effective for mild to moderate infections of many body sites, as demonstrated by other papers in this symposium.
  • (9) But a novel drug combination unveiled at the Aids 2014 symposium in Melbourne on Monday for the first time allows tuberculosis (TB) to be treated in patients while they are taking their HIV drugs, offering the potential to save millions of lives.
  • (10) We counted the symposiums published in 58 journals of clinical medicine and surveyed the journal editors regarding their policies for symposium issues.
  • (11) The benefits and risks of oral contraceptives, IUD and abortion are appraised at an international symposium in Montreal.
  • (12) Eight research protocols which had previously been approved by Ethical Research Committees (ERCs) were reviewed in simulated review committees set up during a symposium on medical ethics.
  • (13) Progress since the Pennsylvania Symposium has been considerable for questions of 'where' and 'when': localization of symptoms ('where') fields a double gradient (up-down and back-to-front) in monkeys, and a right-left difference in man; analysis of time factors ('when') distinguishes early and late lesions, single and serial removals, or succeeds in recording and stimulating at critical moments during performance.
  • (14) Included in the symposium are descriptions of the biochemistry of free radicals and evidence of their direct toxic effects on the heart, as well as discussions concerning the effect of oxygen free radical scavengers on myocardial infarct size, the stunned myocardium, and cardiac preservation during surgery.
  • (15) This symposium paper is a digest of three full-length manuscripts currently in press with J Membrane Biology (see reference list).
  • (16) Several contributions of this senna symposium bring complementary information of utmost interest.
  • (17) According to materials of the symposium at the XVI All-Union Congress of Microbiologists and Epidemiologists the author presents some trends in the improvement of teaching epidemiology, including renovation of the programs and teaching plans at the sanitary-hygienic faculty, development of practical habits and rationalization in the organization of practical work at the therapeutic and pediatric faculties.
  • (18) Many of these have been discussed elsewhere in this symposium.
  • (19) An attempt is made to lead into a more detailed discussion about the specific compromised hosts that are discussed in the rest of the symposium.
  • (20) The Oxford International Symposium on myocardial preservation provided an appropriate milestone and impetus to survey one aspect of operative myocardial preservation, namely blood cardioplegia, and to contrast it with the more popular crystalloid cardioplegia.