If Keightley's theory is right, technology may compensate for many harmful mutations, says Richard Lenski, an evolutionary biologist who studies bacterial mutation rates at Michigan State University in East Lansing.
For example, there is a growing interest in developing useful systems for automatic speech recognition (ASR) in different noisy environments [5, 6], and most of these studies are focused on developing more robust VAD systems in order to compensate for the harmful effect of the noise on the speech signal.
These paralogous genes can, at least partly, compensate for any harmful effect of a protein due to the presence of InDels.
The increased adult weight of insecticide-treated beetles from the favourable temperature regime (Fig. 3) could instead suggest that they were able to compensate for the harmful effects of insecticide stress by increasing feeding or assimilation of food (Campero et al. 2007).
However, presence of paralogs for majority (67 %) of these genes can be a possible explanation as these can help to compensate for the loss-of-function caused by harmful mutations.
Probably the eels, sculpins, and other fish taken by the cormorant make the species beneficial rather than harmful to the salmon, and probably more than compensate for the few valuable fish that it occasionally takes.
Dumbed-down schools are particularly harmful to poor children, who are unlikely to be able to compensate for them at home.America's great universities are increasingly reinforcing rather than reducing these educational inequalities.
"Low yield" cigarettes, which were designed to reduce the amounts of "tar," carbon monoxide, nicotine, and other harmful cigarette smoke constituents inhaled by a smoker, require the addicted smoker to change smoking behavior and compensate for the lower yield by taking more frequent and larger puffs, and inhaling the smoke more deeply into the lungs.
Metaphors help compensate for our natural weaknesses.
A dividend helps compensate for that risk.
