Sentence examples for capability to damage from inspiring English sources

On Monday Condoleezza Rice, on her way to Brussels, told reporters that NATO must "deny Russian strategic objectives, which are clearly to undermine Georgia's democracy, to use its military capability to damage and in some cases destroy Georgian infrastructure and to try and weaken the Georgian state".

A well-known pathogenic feature of CCHF virus is its capability to damage endothelium.

An increase of LDH release was found in A549 cells exposed to both MWCNTs demonstrating their capability to damage cell membrane).

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels are immediately increased after a vessel occlusion is cleared, and are considered the main mediators of reperfusion injury [ 97] resulting in the release of cytochrome C [ 98]. Adult cardiomyocites are post-mitotic cells, therefore this tissue has limited response capability to damage.

Furthermore, the importance of NK cells was also related to its in vitro capability to damage A. fumigatus hyphae, but not resting spores, especially when incubated with alveolar macrophages, resulting in 2 8-fold greater killing and a marked induction of CXCL9, CXCL10, and CXCL11 when compared to macrophages alone or macrophages incubated with IFN- γ-deficient NK cells [ 148].

Despite the huge progress made in recent years in analysing the degradation behavior and the reliability of thermal barrier coating systems, there is still some deficit in the capability to predict damage evolution in terms of crack initiation and crack growth, which ultimately leads to macroscopic delamination and spallation of the coating system.

Since then, NASA has held out the emerging space station plan as something that could make spaceflight safer and has used the existence of the plan as part of its justification to return to flight before it has developed a full capability to repair damage to the shuttle's thermal protection system in orbit.

Recent advancements in SHM technology have resulted in significant and promising techniques offering autonomous solutions for detecting and assessing the health condition of composite structures, providing a real-time early warning capability to mitigate damage, and reducing considerably downtime and maintenance costs.

The aim of this numerical strategy is to investigate the global postbuckling behaviour as well as the local damage progression of composite structures using separated FE models with different levels of fidelity: (i) a relatively simple global model of the complete structure, and (ii) more complex local models of certain details that incorporate damage capabilities to simulate damage events.

The occurrence of bladder cancer resulted from many exogenous and endogenous factors, such as cigarette smoking, genetic background, and capability to repair damaged DNAs [ 2- 7].

Indeed, it has already been reported that cells that express in vitro the p53P isoform have a greater capability to repair damages of nuclear DNA and display a reduced production of micronuclei with respect to cells that express the p53R isoform [ 32].