What's the difference between storage and utility?

Storage


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of depositing in a store or warehouse for safe keeping; also, the safe keeping of goods in a warehouse.
  • (n.) Space for the safe keeping of goods.
  • (n.) The price changed for keeping goods in a store.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some common eye movement deficits, and concepts such as 'the neural integrator' and the 'velocity storage mechanism', for which anatomical substrates are still sought, are introduced.
  • (2) Results demonstrate that the development of biliary strictures is strongly associated with the duration of cold ischemic storage of allografts in both Euro-Collins solution and University of Wisconsin solution.
  • (3) This study was designed to examine the effect of the storage configuration of skin and the ratio of tissue-to-storage medium on the viability of skin stored under refrigeration.
  • (4) Two different approaches were developed within the framework of Relational LABCOM to address both the intermediate and long-term storage of data.
  • (5) During the last 10 years 94% of patients have been normocalcaemic postoperatively, thanks mainly to the re-implantation of autologous parathyroid tissue, preserved by low-temperature storage.
  • (6) An unusual case of myopathy due to lipid storage in Type I muscle fibers is described.
  • (7) The data suggest that inhibition of gain in weight with the addition of pyruvate and dihydroxyacetone to the diet is the result of an increased loss of calories as heat at the expense of storage as lipid.
  • (8) The major protein component in seeds is storage protein.
  • (9) The quality of liver grafts was evaluated using an original, blood-free isolated perfusion model, after 8 h cold storage, or after 15 min warm ischemia performed prior to harvesting.
  • (10) TTM predominantly enhances the removal of Cu from the short-term storage compartment, but effects on the long-term storage compartment may still be of significance.
  • (11) New developments in data storage and retrieval forecast applications that could not have been imagined even a year or two ago.
  • (12) Three triacetinases (A, B and C) were shown to undergo reciprocal conversions under storage and during some purification procedures (effect of pH, ionic strength, ion-exchange chromatography, concentration, lyophilization, etc.).
  • (13) Also, co-storage of a partially homologous regulatory polypeptide called brain natriuretic polypeptide (BNP) occurs, as has been determined by immunohistochemistry and radioimmunoassay.
  • (14) Various forms of inactive data storage and archiving in machine-readable form are available to address this dilemma, yet these solutions can create even more difficult problems.
  • (15) Possible reasons for the previous discrepancies between direct and isotopic methods are discussed, as are the effects of protein binding, sample handling, and storage conditions on oxalate values in plasma.
  • (16) Freezing may be valuable while quality control procedures are performed following radiolabeling as well as if temporary storage or shipment of radioantibodies prior to patient dosing is undertaken.
  • (17) Investigations of long-term storage of liver, fatty tissue and whole blood in the Environmental Specimen Bank (-85 degrees C and -170 degrees C) showed sufficient stability of HCB and other xenobiotics.
  • (18) After 14 days of storage the reduction factors were infinite, 30 and 5, respectively.
  • (19) DG activates a kinase called protein kinase C, whereas IP3 mediates the release of Ca2+ from intracellular storage sites.
  • (20) Changes are interpreted primarily in terms of membrane behavior, and implications for storage monitoring are discussed.

Utility


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being useful; usefulness; production of good; profitableness to some valuable end; as, the utility of manure upon land; the utility of the sciences; the utility of medicines.
  • (n.) Adaptation to satisfy the desires or wants; intrinsic value. See Note under Value, 2.
  • (n.) Happiness; the greatest good, or happiness, of the greatest number, -- the foundation of utilitarianism.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By presenting the case history of a man who successively developed facial and trigeminal neural dysfunction after Mohs chemosurgery of a PCSCC, this paper documents histologically the occurrence of such neural invasion, and illustrates the utility of gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance scanning in patient management.
  • (2) Philip Shaw, chief economist at broker Investec, expects CPI to hit 5.1%, just shy of the 5.2% reached in September 2008, as the utility hikes alone add 0.4% to inflation.
  • (3) Estimates of the risk probability for each dose level and sacrifice time are found utilizing the sample likelihood as the posterior density.
  • (4) Irradiation of stored red blood cells (RBC) is increasingly utilized for patients who are immunosuppressed or on chemotherapeutic regimens.
  • (5) The approach was to determine the relative importance of predisposing, enabling, and medical need factors in explaining utilization rates among younger and older enrollees of an HMO.
  • (6) Utilizing a range of operative Michaelis-Menten parameters that characterize phenytoin elimination via a single capacity-limited pathway, a situation assuming instantaneous absorption (case I) is compared with the situation in which continuous constant-rate absorption occurs (case II).
  • (7) Decreased synthesis rather than increased utilization accounted for the nucleoside effect.
  • (8) The authors present the first results on the utilization of fish infusion (IFP) as a basic medium for the cultivation of bacteria.
  • (9) The durable power of attorney concept, though not free of problems, appears more likely to be of practical utility.
  • (10) Parallel studies in vivo were carried out to determine the contribution of the phosphatidylserine decarboxylase pathway, relative to pathways utilizing ethanolamine directly, to the synthesis of brain ethanolamine glycerophospholipids.
  • (11) Cadavers have a multitude of possible uses--from the harvesting of organs, to medical education, to automotive safety testing--and yet their actual utilization arouses profound aversion no matter how altruistic and beneficial the motivation.
  • (12) Utilization of inert materials like teflon, makrolon, and stainless steel warrants experimental and possibly clinical application of the developed small constrictor.
  • (13) Several aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases are herein shown to catalyze the AMP----ADP and ADP----ATP exchange reactions (in the absence of tRNAs) by utilizing a transfer of the gamma-phosphate of ATP to reactive AMP and ADP intermediates that are probably the mixed anhydrides of the nucleotide and the corresponding amino acid.
  • (14) Superior results have been achieved utilizing alternative regimens that include VP-16, the most effective new agent.
  • (15) Utilization of the immunoglobulin system is based upon the supposition that in lymphoid neoplasms with clonal origin either all or none of the tumor cells should have surface-associated IgM and kappa-reactivities.
  • (16) The total amount of variance explained in the frequency of utilization (47%) exceeded that explained by other studies of utilization of various health services by the elderly.
  • (17) Ketanserin is a specific S2 serotonergic receptor blocker with possible adrenergic blocking activities that has clinical utility in the treatment of hypertension.
  • (18) In this study, protein efficiency ratio and net protein utilization together with the kinetic estimates of protein turnover were used to compare the effect of different protein and fat sources in healthy rats.
  • (19) Although this operational classification does not produce etiologically homogeneous groups, it is believed to have pragmatic utility with respect to planning targeted surveillance and management strategies.
  • (20) The results of our utilization review were conveyed to local hospitals and the blood supplier in an effort to preserved donor blood.