In all the above procedures, when the intermediate sera were diluted to 1: 10 or 1: 100 with 0.85% saline, the specific and nonspecific fluorescence were not appreciably reduced, whereas, a dilution of the intermediate sera to 1: 500 or diluting the Af to 1: 5 greatly reduced specific fluorescence.

Old Mr. Pocket's frantic response to life imprisonment with a useless, social-climbing wife is to `` put his two hands into his disturbed hair '' and `` make an extraordinary effort to lift himself up by it '', whereas Joe Gargery endures the shrewish onslaughts of Mrs. Joe by apologetically drawing `` the back of his hand across and across his nose ''.

People with empathic concern help others in distress even when exposure to the situation could be easily avoided, whereas those lacking in empathic concern avoid helping unless it is difficult or impossible to avoid exposure to another's suffering.

Amoeboids with pseudopods supported by regular arrays of microtubules were called actinopods, whereas those that weren't were called rhizopods, which were further subdivided into lobose, filose, and reticulose amoebae.

It projects it with the tip foremost whereas other frogs flick out the rear part first, their tongues being hinged at the front.

The Danish and Norwegian alphabets end with æ — ø — å, whereas the Swedish, Finnish and Estonian ones conventionally put å — ä — ö at the end.

It is generally contrasted with vagueness, in that specific and distinct interpretations are permitted ( although some may not be immediately apparent ), whereas with information that is vague it is difficult to form any interpretation at the desired level of specificity.

Its domain is the powerset of A ( with the empty set removed ), and so makes sense for any set A, whereas with the definition used elsewhere in this article, the domain of a choice function on a collection of sets is that collection, and so only makes sense for sets of sets.

By the 2005 series Australia's wins had increased to 115 whereas England's had increased to only 93 ( with 82 draws ).

In British English, according to Hart's Rules, the general rule is that abbreviations ( in the narrow sense that includes only words with the ending, and not the middle, dropped ) terminate with a full stop ( period ), whereas contractions ( in the sense of words missing a middle part ) do not.

The tempo of their arrangement was slowed to allow for the bagpipes, but it was based on Collins ': it began with a bagpipe solo introduction similar to her lone voice, then it was accompanied by the band of bagpipes and horns, whereas in her version she is backed up by a chorus.

Hence, from the point of view of the reader, numerals in Western texts are written with the highest power of the base first whereas numerals in Arabic texts are written with the lowest power of the base first.

An immunogen is able to induce an immune response, whereas an antigen is able to combine with the products of an immune response once they are made.

On returning, Fleming noticed that one culture was contaminated with a fungus, and that the colonies of staphylococci that had immediately surrounded it had been destroyed, whereas other colonies farther away were normal.

Conversely, British English favours fitted as the past tense of fit generally, whereas the preference of American English is more complex: AmEng prefers fitted for the metaphorical sense of having made an object " fit " ( i. e., suited ) for a purpose ; in spatial transitive contexts, AmEng uses fitted for the sense of having made an object conform to an unchanged object that it surrounds ( e. g., " fitted X around Y ") but fit for the sense of having made an object conform to an unchanged object that surrounds it ( e. g., " fit X into Y "); and for the spatial senses ( both intransitive and transitive ) of having been matching with respect to contour, with no alteration of either object implied, AmEng prefers fit (" The clothes fit.

BrE usage varies, with some authoritative sources such as The Economist and The Times recommending the same usage as in the US, whereas other authoritative sources, such as The King's English, recommend single quotation marks.

According to Aristotle, he expanded the number of characters in plays to allow for conflict amongst them, whereas previously characters had interacted only with the chorus.

Amdahl's law is often conflated with the law of diminishing returns, whereas only a special case of applying Amdahl's law demonstrates ' law of diminishing returns '.

The north consists largely of poor subsoils and is covered with large areas of extensive Atlantic blanket-bog, whereas the south is largely a limestone landscape.

Arithmetic coding achieves compression rates close to the best possible for a particular statistical model, which is given by the information entropy, whereas Huffman compression is simpler and faster but produces poor results for models that deal with symbol probabilities close to 1.

* Oxidiser tanks are very lightweight when empty, approximately 1 % of their contents, so the reduction in orbital weight by airbreathing is small, whereas air-breathing engines have a poor thrust / weight ratio which tends to increase the orbital mass.

* Lift to drag ratios of vehicles at hypersonic speeds are poor whereas since acceleration is a vector, the effective lift to drag ratios of rocket vehicles at high g is not dissimilar.

This does not seem to be the case, as the decadent enjoy lives of luxury which insulate them from evil, whereas many of the pious are poor, and are well acquainted with worldly evils.

People refer to the two as ' Third World / South ' and ' First World / North '; because in theory the Global North is supposedly more affluent and developed, whereas the Global South is less developed and oftentimes more poor.

Additional problems for ONdigital were caused by the choice of 64QAM broadcast mode, coupled with far weaker than expected broadcast power, ( meaning that the signal was weak in many areas ), a complex pricing structure ( comprising many menu options ), a poor quality subscriber management system ( badly adapted from Canal +), a paper magazine TV guide whereas BSkyB had provided an electronic programme guide ( EPG ), insufficient technical customer services, and much signal piracy.

It thrives in poor soil and dry conditions whereas in rich soil it tends to produce much leafy growth and few flowers.

Diogenes Laërtius preserves several different accounts of this story ; one of them has Crates giving his money away to the citizens of Thebes, apparently after seeing the beggar king Telephus in a tragedy ; whereas another account has him placing his money in the hands of a banker, with the agreement that he should deliver it to his sons, unless they too became philosophers, in which case he should distribute it among the poor.

Some early episodes are also believed to be damaged or in poor quality, whereas much of the output of other broadcasters – such as many early episodes of The Avengers ( shot in the electronic studio rather than on film ) produced by Associated British Corporation – have been destroyed.

Plastic is now the most commonly used material for lightweight corsets and the majority of poor quality corsets, whereas spring or spiral steel is preferred for stronger corsets and generally the better quality corset too.

This helps scavenging when exhaust / inlet timing overlap is used and a wide speed range required, whereas poor poppet valve exhaust scavenging can dilute the fresh air / fuel mixture intake to a greater degree, being more speed dependent ( relying principally on exhaust / inlet system resonant tuning to separate the two streams ).

Further, since there are no economic criteria in classifying Reservation, poorer sections of reserved class often remain poor whereas the affluent section reap benefits for successive generations.

However, the chroma resolution still remained relatively poor, limited to just under 0. 4 MHz or approximately 30 lines resolution, whereas live broadcast chrominance resolution was over 100 lines.

This is usually a poor approximation, whereas Daubechies wavelets are among the simplest but most important families of wavelets.

* Computationalists believe that internal mental activity consists of manipulation of explicit symbols, whereas connectionists believe that the manipulation of explicit symbols is a poor model of mental activity.

The criticism is that workers in the Third World economy nevertheless remain poor, as any pay raises they may have received over what they made before trade liberalization are said to be offset by inflation, whereas workers in the First World country become unemployed, while the wealthy owners of the multinational grow even more wealthy.

: The richer class have many ways of shielding themselves, and stand less in need of help from the State ; whereas the mass of the poor have no resources of their own to fall back upon, and must chiefly depend upon the assistance of the State.

He concludes that " eliminationist assaults " are preventable, because " the world's non-mass-murdering countries are wealthy and powerful, having prodigious military capabilities ( and they can band together )", whereas the perpetrator countries " are overwhelmingly poor and weak.

In 1946, too poor to buy artists ' pigments, he turned to black and white household enamels to paint a series of large abstractions ; of these works, Light in August ( c. 1946 ) and Black Friday ( 1948 ) are essentially black with white elements, whereas Zurich ( 1947 ) and Mailbox ( 1947 / 48 ) are white with black.

Each solution is marked out of 10 on a 0 + and 10-scale ; that is to say, if an answer is judged incomplete or unfinished, it is awarded a few marks for progress and relevant observations, whereas if it is presented as complete and correct, marks are deducted for faults, poor reasoning, or unproven assumptions.

Secondary education was made free to all pupils, whereas previously it had been closed to the poor, who were unable to afford to pay tuition.

He hypothesized that groups finding themselves in some difficulty due to task complexity, an unclear leadership structure or poor cohesion act as if they feel the need to conduct a " complete " discussion and thus are more likely to pass through all stages as the linear phase model implies, whereas groups feeling confident due to task simplicity, a clear leadership structure and cohesion are more likely to skip stages apparently deemed unnecessary.

The earliest reference given is to Barthélemy de Laffemas, who in 1598 in Les Trésors et richesses pour mettre l ' Estat en Splendeur ( The Treasures and riches to put the State in Splendor ) " denounced the objectors to the use of French silks on the ground that all purchasers of French luxury goods created a livelihood for the poor, whereas the miser caused them to die in distress ," an early form of the paradox of thrift.