The phrase "are less discrete" is not correct in the intended context and should be "are less discreet." You can use "are less discreet" when discussing someone's behavior or actions that are not subtle or are more open than expected.
Example: "In a crowded room, some people are less discreet about their conversations, making it hard to ignore their discussions."
Alternatives: "are less subtle" or "are more open."
In fact, most recessions will have some combination of these factors, which are less discrete than Mr Cowen indicates temporary declines can become permanent, and so on.
These three cusps are less discrete in Afrotarsius.
These data therefore further support our finding that the compartments on the Hox clusters are less discrete in ES cells than in terminally repressed forebrain cells.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.02557.006 10.7554/eLiFigure57.007 Figure 1 figure supplement 4. 3D compartments in the HoxC and HoxA cluster are less discrete in ES cells than in embryonic brain cells.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.02557.003 10.7554/eLiFigure57.004 Figure 1 figure supplement 1. 3D compartments in the HoxD cluster are less discrete in ES cells than in embryonic brain cells.
The necessity to actively prevent the most posterior genes from premature activation is supported by their basal transcriptional activity in ES cells, where Hox clusters are less discrete than in subsequent negative tissues such as fetal brain cells.
Moreover, the background was more prominent, suggesting that the complexes were less discrete or less stable than those on P3.
H3K27me3 was less discrete, spreading variably into flanking regions of the human BAC, but Suz12, a component of the PRC2 complex that deposits the H3K27me3 mark, was tightly localised to the CGI-like sequence in each case.
In prc1-1 Rop signal is also found in some cells to be localized towards the basal region of the trichoblasts but it was noted that the signal was less discrete than in the wild-type and was often localised to a more extreme basal position (Fig. 3B, F).
While genetic variation is inherently discrete at the nucleotide level, qPCR measurements are less discretely distributed because of measurement noise[35].
