Sentence examples for as a negative element from inspiring English sources

"Horizon," a light-box sculpture by Monica Goetz, interprets line as a negative element, literally cutting through the piece's surface.

Although Johnson recognised that in Bond there "was a social phenomenon of some importance", this was seen as a negative element, as the phenomenon concerned "three basic ingredients in Dr No, all unhealthy, all thoroughly English: the sadism of a schoolboy bully, the mechanical, two-dimensional sex-longings of a frustrated adolescent, and the crude, snob-cravings of a suburban adult".

The activator A increases its own transcription as well as that of the repressor by binding to the corresponding promoters: A thus acts as a positive element in transcription, whereas R is a negative element that sequesters the activator.

In particular, NR3A subunit, that possesses low affinity for glutamate, can act as a dominant negative element in activating NMDA receptors.

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.

The vibrations are the result of the fluid dynamic forces on the tube which behave as a negative damping element.

In this manner, the N1 helix would act as a negative regulatory element; maintaining low activity in the non-targeting, monomeric form of FtsY as observed in the structures presented in this paper.

This regulatory circuit may act as a negative feedback element for the TRF2-ATM-p53 positive feedback loop.

Flanking vector sequence amplified in conjunction with cDNA clone insert sequence was also incorporated as a negative control element.

Transcription is driven by the P1 promoter, while the P2 promoter acts as a negative regulatory element [ 13, 14].

Thus, if anything, the mouse counterpart to site 3 (termed prom 3) appears to function as a negative regulatory element.