In asymmetric high- and low-angle GBs, we find that voids become preferential sites for dislocation nucleation when the void size exceeds 4 Å.
The repassivated metastable pitting sites are prone to become preferential sites for following metastable pits to nucleate, resulting in accumulated corrosion damages on the surface.
At larger sizes between 1,000 and 100,000 atoms, the decahedra structure becomes preferential, and for even larger sizes (more than 100,000 atoms), the fcc structure with cubo-octahedron or truncated octahedron shapes is the most common.
Bioinformatics and prediction programs have become preferential methods to explore the function of miRNAs [ 61, 62].
Our results strongly suggest that homeobox genes and other developmental transcription factors become preferential targets of de novo methylation in DCIS.
Homeobox genes and other developmental transcription factors become preferential targets of de novo methylation in DCIS, consistent with previous associations between homeobox gene methylation and recurrence in invasive breast cancers [ 21, 27].
We cannot deduce why homeobox genes become preferential targets of aberrant CpG methylation during breast tumorigenesis and whether this extensive methylation can shift their finely tuned homeostasis, thus triggering tumorigenesis, or is merely associated with the neoplastic event.
Although the Middle and Northern Channel became the preferential turbidite depocentres after this event, the deposition of turbidites has persisted in the Southern channel levee until 14,700 cal a. BP, indicating that the Southern Channel was definitely not abandoned after the upstream northward avulsion.
The results show that all the large-angle GBs (type I) in copper bicrystals always become the preferential sites to initiate fatigue cracks, independent of the interaction angle between the GB plane and the stress axis.
