What's the difference between strata and superposition?

Strata


Definition:

  • (n.) pl. of Stratum.
  • (pl. ) of Stratum

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These laminae included the dentate hilus and strata oriens, pyramidale and lacunosum-moleculare of CA1.
  • (2) High-density lipoprotein cholesterol was increased by 7 and 9 percent by simvastatin and by 17 and 16 percent by gemfibrozil in strata I and II, respectively.
  • (3) Although their numbers are greatest in the polymorph region of the fascia dentata (FD) and in the principal cell layers stratum pyramidale (SP) and stratum granulosum (SG), GAD immunoreactive (GAD-IR) cells are numerous in other strata that contain mostly dendrites and scattered cells.
  • (4) in the US the last ten years have witnessed an alarming recrudescence involving vast strata of the population and especially children, although this is masked by the paucity of reports, as is the case also in Italy.
  • (5) It was hard to understand why the girls would go back and why they couldn’t be saved.” She said she had been disturbed by what they had uncovered during research, what she called an “institutional neglect of a certain strata of society”.
  • (6) Densities of all synapses in the strata radiatum and lacunosum-moleculare in ethanol-treated group were significantly lower than those of control group on 2, 14, 21 and 70 days.
  • (7) There were 255 women who delivered term infants with birthweights under the 31st percentile (low birthweight), who were each matched to women who delivered heavier term infants, within ethnic and gestational age strata.
  • (8) A projection-less strip appears at the expected retinotopic position in both grisea intersecting radially all the strata of the corresponding neuropiles.
  • (9) This paper emphasizes their practical usefulness in medical sciences and their theoretically close relationship with the problem of simultaneous estimation of parameters, depending on strata.
  • (10) Lesion of the fimbria-fornix resulted in a reduction of cholinergic input to the hippocampal formation as indicated by the loss of acetylcholinesterase (AChE)-positive staining in all ipsilateral hippocampal laminae and a loss of [3H]hemicholinium-3 binding to cholinergic terminals in the strata oriens (82% reduction) and radiatum (77% reduction) of areas CA2 and CA3 and in the molecular layer of the dentate gyrus (83% reduction).
  • (11) Three treatment centers were included in the present study to examine these conclusions with other populations containing adolescents, females, and patients from higher socioeconomic strata.
  • (12) On variables measuring life satisfaction or frequency of contact with relatives, however, the extent of ethnic variation declined across age strata, indicating some support for the "age as leveler" hypothesis.
  • (13) The histological features of the three deepest strata of the Optic Tectum of Barbus meridionalis were studied with several staining and impregnation techniques.
  • (14) magazine strata of society that somehow we just didn’t understand,” he says.
  • (15) Emphasis is given to the influence of heterogeneity in sexual activity and patterns of sexual contact between different strata of the population, and on earlier predictions which suggested that AIDS is capable of reversing the sign of population growth rates over time periods of a few to many decades.
  • (16) By light microscopy, the majority of varicose processes with intense TH-like immunoreactivity (LI) were contained in the hilus of the dentate gyrus (DG) and strata radiatum and lacunosum-moleculare of the CA3 region of the hippocampus.
  • (17) Our evidence demonstrates the presence of gap junctions and suggests that the distribution of gap junctions is not homogeneous among the epithelial strata.
  • (18) Neither did it influence the quantities of major keratinocyte organelles (keratin filaments, desmosomes, ribosomes, mitochondria) in the different epidermal strata.
  • (19) Stratified blocked randomization will create near balance within strata, but imbalance for the total trial may still occur.
  • (20) Synaptic input from bipolar cells was seen exclusively near the border between strata 4 and 5.

Superposition


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of superposing, or the state of being superposed; as, the superposition of rocks; the superposition of one plane figure on another, in geometry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Repair after methyl methanesulfonate and after visible light (in bromodeoxyuridine-substituted cells) may be interpreted as a superposition of the X-ray and UV-like repair systems.
  • (2) In contrast to such artifacts of superposition, however, the observed intercommunicating pores are contained within a pair of culs-de-sac formed by the fused membranes of both cells.
  • (3) We are able to describe our data in terms of a superposition of single and multiple-hit fractions and to show that the latter are greatly increased, in excision-repair-competent strains, by prevention of protein synthesis for 1 h prior to irradiation.
  • (4) In application to the dorsoventral patterning of insects, it is shown that a superposition of two pattern-forming reactions is required.
  • (5) The association of mitral leaflets (composed of excess tissue and opposed to flow by a perpendicular position attributable to a narrow mitroaortic angle) and geometric left ventricular modifications (responsible for the superposition of mitral inflow to ventricular outflow) also qualifies as a mechanism for the induction of LVOTO after mitral surgical repair.
  • (6) The two lobes of the molecule, representing the N-terminal and C-terminal halves, have very similar folding, with a root-mean-square deviation, after superposition, of 1.32 A for 285 out of 330 C alpha atoms; the only major differences being in surface loops.
  • (7) When the mean pressure values of the potentiated beats in a given experiment are multiplied by a single factor, superposition of the two relationships is obtained.
  • (8) In the model, we assumed that molecular motion within a finite resolvable volume element (voxel) is a superposition of flow of randomly oriented small capillaries.
  • (9) Such a superposition in general, resulted in a polar-plot with four peaks 90 degrees apart from each other (four-symmetrical polar-plot).
  • (10) Traditional "stimulus-time-locked signal averaging" of human EEG, as usually practiced in both clinical and basic contexts, assumes the superposition principle of algebraic summation for a linear time series.
  • (11) If an unselected sample includes individuals whose blood pressure is sensitive to their salt intake and individuals whose blood pressure is not sensitive, then the superposition of these two sub-populations in a scatterplot of individuals' blood pressures against their salt intakes could give a triangular distribution.
  • (12) Here we examine a simple one-dimensional caricature of their model which exhibits similar linear behaviour and present a nonlinear analysis which shows the possibility of superposition of modes subject to appropriate parameter values and initial conditions.
  • (13) There is useful information in the deviations from the rigid body superposition.
  • (14) Taking into account the hypothesis of the superposition of the alloreactive and the anti-self plus conventional antigens T sets of cells, we investigated whether immunization with conventional antigens was able to alter alloreactive T levels.
  • (15) The relation between the quality of the optical image and the fineness of the retinal mosaic has been studied in eyes of three different optical types: the simple eyes of spiders, the superposition compound eyes of moths, and the apposition compound eyes of butterflies.
  • (16) A small, but clearly detectable delay of the 'on-field' orientation can be described accurately by the superposition of two exponential processes with opposite amplitudes.
  • (17) It is shown that the ESR spectra of triple-stranded complex formed by the polyribouridylic acid with the trideoxyadenylate spin-labelled on terminal phosphate is a superposition of the signals with strongly different width of HFS-components.
  • (18) The response to an optimally oriented stimulus of both simple and complex cells in the cat's striate visual cortex (area 17) can be suppressed by the superposition of an orthogonally oriented drifting grating.
  • (19) Domain II has the active site, which, by appropriate superposition of both domains, can be located close to the AMP binding site and to the hyperreactive SH group.
  • (20) They are due to phenomena of induction or saturation of enzymatic activities and to the multi-step nature of carcinogenesis: if a carcinogen accelerates more than one step, the superposition of the dose-response curves for the individual steps can result in an exponential relationship.