Sentence examples for Slight retardation from inspiring English sources

Storage under 18 MPa air (3·8 MPa pO2, partial pressure of O2) showed a slight retardation of germination for seed lot 2Y (time to reach 50%% of maximum germination T50 increased from 28·4 ± 0·4 h for the non-treated seeds to 30·0 ± 0·4 h for the 18 MPa air-stored seeds), but no obvious decline in seedling quality was observed.

Addition of SAP did not significantly affect compressive strength, although a slight retardation of strength development was observed in mortars with higher w/b ratio.

However, single therapy resulted in a slight retardation of tumor growth; there was no difference in tumor growth inhibition between ANT2 shRNA and I-131.

The major DARPin peaks generally eluted with a slight retardation, giving a slightly lower apparent MW than expected (Table 1), calculated using a protein standard consisting of four globular proteins.

It was rarely necessary to adjust the matching manually, for example when several adjacent bands largely overlapped or when the algorithm failed to find obvious matches because of a slight retardation of lanes at the margin of the gel.

Intriguingly, we found that the electrophoretic interferences on plasmid DNA are peculiar to the malten molecular structure and that CDDP, as expected (Bellon et al, 1991), causes just a slight retardation in the mobility of the supercoiled plasmid form.

When the hydrazyl is used, the polymerizations following inhibition are retarded; the retardation is very slight in systems involving a nitroxide.

Really tall, deathly thin guys who look like they're dying, deaf guys, guys who seem like they might have a slight mental retardation – basically anyone who looks like they were bullied at school.

At weaning, pups born to P dams exhibited slight growth retardation as compared with those born to control dams.

With regard to the morphological phenotypes associated with a zTERT knockdown, zTERT-MO-injected embryos appear normal throughout embryogenesis, although a slight growth retardation was observed until 24 hpf (data not shown).

Although they showed slight growth retardation from 10 to 50 days of age, their body weight was similar to that of wild-type mice after 50 days of age (Fig. 1).