The phrase "characterizes itself by" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means that the subject of the sentence has a particular trait or quality that defines or distinguishes it. Example: The city of Venice characterizes itself by its intricate network of canals, which serve as its main mode of transportation and contribute to its unique charm.
Here we used Cytochrome b562 RIL (BRIL), a soluble alpha-helical protein that has been crystallized and structurally characterized by itself to a resolution of 1.8 Å (PDB ID 1M6T, MW 11.9 kDa) and with the A2A adenosine receptor to a resolution of 1.8 Å (PDB ID 4EIY).
But insulin resistance by itself — characterized by the decreased uptake of sugar by muscle and fat cells — can lead to cardiovascular disease, inflammation, polycystic ovary syndrome, fatty liver disease and other health conditions, even in people who do not have Type 2 diabetes.
It should be remembered however that the official religion of the Saudi state, the Wahabi interpretation of Islam, is itself characterized by an intense religious exclusivism and puritanical legalism.
An alternative is to allow that while both Beauty Itself and other items are characterized by beauty, Beauty Itself is simply and solely beautiful.
The granuloma itself is characterized by avascularization and necrosis which have been modeled by the hypoxic and starvation conditions.
Production of these can be pathologically disregulated in disease states, and obesity itself is characterized by low-grade chronic systemic inflammation; this is evidenced by elevated inflammatory markers, such as C-reactive protein and interleukin-6.
The history of the text itself is characterized by similar uncertainty.
The mass production process itself is characterized by high volume, a highly organized flow of materials through various stages of manufacturing, careful supervision of quality standards, and precise division of labour.
If Beauty Itself is characterized by perfect beauty, then Helen has imperfect beauty and she does not have perfect beauty.
The next characteristic is motivated by the fact that, in general, for videokeratoscopic images, the pixels above an eyelid are brighter due to the skin compared to the eyelid, which itself is characterized by a dark region.
This kind of linear spectral filtering can be effective to reliably estimate the dominant eigenPSFs of the PSF field, but it may not be enough to characterize the field by itself, when there are strong spurious fluctuations in the estimated patterns.
