He earned ill will, employees said, by demanding that employees pass basic retail math tests -- an exercise one former staff member described as "degrading".
That is why air strikes are often described as "degrading" Isis capabilities, which is not the same thing as destroying it.
Under these optimized conditions, the maximum THF degradation rate increased to 137.60 mg THF h−1 g dry weight in Rhodococcus sp. YYL, which was nearly five times of that by the previously described THF degrading Rhodococcus strain.
Genetic differences affecting metalloproteinase expression (e.g. collagenases, gelatinases, stromelysins and matrilysin) may also be important, as these have been described as degrading all components of the extracellular matrix and can therefore also impact plaque disruption [49].
The Mediterranean world sustained agricultural lifeways across some 8000 years, yet its environment has repeatedly been described as degraded, suggesting conceptual confusion between transformation and destruction.
The substrate specificity of MMP-3 is broad and MMP-3 has been described to degrade many ECM proteins such as fibronectin, denatured collagens (gelatin), laminin and proteoglycans.
Additionally, we reported that MT-MMP, first described to degrade LRP-1 in small fragments [ 76], was able to generate sLRP-1 in medium conditioned by HT1080 cells in culture [ 75].
MMP-9 may be an important factor in COPD development, since MMP-9 activity not only causes ECM destruction but has also been described to degrade α1-protease inhibitor leading to increased activity of neutrophil elastase and cathepsin G (Chakrabarti and Patel 2005; Liu et al. 2000).
These three groups of bacteria were described in insects degrading wood microflora.
The inspector can only inspect them at request of the police station which after doing so in 2013, he described some as degrading.
