While the explicit borders of nation-states are being challenged and, in some cases dismantled or diminished, the implicit borders of the digital world are just starting to take shape.
Interestingly, this is inversely related to the severity of their phenotypes, such as fused somite borders, diminished tail pigmentation, neuronal hyperplasia and diminished her4 expression: most severe in mibta52b allele followed by those in mibm132 and mibtfi91 alleles [34].
For this reason, we do not exclude the possibility of diverse genetic phenomena, such as the continuum interchange of genetic material that diminishing the border between bacterial species, as it has been recently described in E. coli bacterial strains, where a small proportion of universal protein families [ 41] and a large proportion of specific families [ 42] have been found.
But privately, some American officials are wincing at a full-scale military operation that is taking a heavy toll on civilians as well as insurgents, and has not diminished the cross-border attacks.
By some key measures, the problems underlying illegal immigration — the economic and demographic pressures that have drawn Mexicans north for decades in search of jobs and a better life, and the challenges for the United States of securing its borders — have diminished over the past six years.
The flow of narcotics across the border never diminished significantly, and, as cartels like Sinaloa and the Zetas vanquished smaller competitors, they consolidated territorial control, growing more powerful and more grotesque in the process.
The SLIT1 mRNA signal abruptly diminished at the V1/V2 border (Fig. 5 C, arrowhead).
For nephrectomized rats, expression, but not activity, of glucose transporters decreased (26), and glucose transporters in brush-border membranes diminished in spontaneous idiopathic Fanconi syndrome (27).
It's all too easy to believe that in an age of globalization the need for strict biological borders has somehow diminished.
Along with shipping embargoes, mining activities and cross-border trade have diminished.
