The phrase "a negative element" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a component or factor that has an adverse or undesirable effect in a particular context.
Example: "In the analysis of the project, we identified a negative element that could hinder our progress."
Alternatives: "a detrimental factor" or "an adverse component."
"Horizon," a light-box sculpture by Monica Goetz, interprets line as a negative element, literally cutting through the piece's surface.
Prior to Moore and the work of Archipenko, Boccioni, and Lipchitz, space had been a negative element in figure sculpture; in Moore's string sculptures and Lipchitz' transparencies of the 1920s, it became a prime element of design.
Paying money for a good that is clearly worth the price is still a negative element in the transaction.
On the other hand, a negative element faced in this work was the need to update a pre-existing system.
Notice that in both claims there is a negative element and a positive element: each claim about freedom assumes both that freedom is freedom from something (i.e., preventing conditions) and that it is freedom to do or become something.
不 m 7 is a negative element featuring a syllabic nasal, and the character 不 or its graph variant 伓 or 毌 adopted to represent the word is a semantic loan in Southern Min.
In particular, NR3A subunit, that possesses low affinity for glutamate, can act as a dominant negative element in activating NMDA receptors.
Four cis-acting regulatory regions, SE1 and SE2 (stem elements), a negative regulatory element and a root-specific element, were found to control the tissue-specific expression.
It cannot be picked out as an exclusively negative element, for it actually represents positive distortions, too, of the systems set up, and can introduce elements of dynamism and innovation and translate social transformations into spatial terms also; in a certain sense it corresponds to the vitality of a specific urban condition.
Here, we describe a function for LXRalpha as a cAMP-responsive regulator of renin and c-myc gene transcriptions by the interaction with a specific cis-acting DNA element, CNRE (an overlapping cAMP response element and a negative response element).
(c) Disruption of a negative regulatory element (NRE) or silencer element.
