"All things being equal, if a child is born with a slightly diminished propensity to take pleasure in social interactions, this might lead to drastic consequences for the development of social skills down the line," Chevallier said.
Genetic mutations or epigenetic factors that diminish the propensity of a cell to undergo apoptosis may therefore confer on that cell a growth advantage.
These findings suggest that therapies targeting the cyclooxygenase pathway may diminish the propensity for tumour metastasis in HNSCC by blocking the PGE2-mediated induction of E-cadherin transcriptional repressors.
Here, we used in vitro protein assays to demonstrate that a W32S substitution in SOD1-fALS mutants significantly diminishes their propensity to aggregate whilst paradoxically decreasing protein stability.
After accounting for land-cover changes and climate, our model under-estimates observed fire frequency during ca. 1990 2002 and over-estimates it thereafter, suggesting that a multi-decadal shift to industrial forest conversion and forest landscapes may have diminished the propensity for high-frequency fires in much of this globally significant tropical region since ca. 2000.
Similarly, the mean score for safer sex communication between couples was lower among female respondents than among male respondents (RR = 0.59, CI = 0.42 0.84), but statistical significance was diminished after propensity score adjustment (RR = 0.77, CI = 0.51 1.10).
But with the growth of wealth and the diminishing marginal propensity to consume, it has tended to become increasingly internecine.
In line with these findings, in vitro experiments revealed diminished aggregation propensities of Thr3-, Ser13-, and Ser16-phosphorylated protein.
This study suggested that the friction material should be designed to produce small contact plateaus on the sliding surface to diminish its noise propensity during brake applications.
The pressure dependence of sooting propensity diminished at pressures above 2.0 MPa.
In the pressure range of 20 to 40 atm both the model and experiment show a diminishing sensitivity of sooting propensity to pressure with a greater decrease in the predicted sensitivity of soot propensity to pressure than the experimental results.
