Sentence examples for disadvantageous at from inspiring English sources

Carrier properties that are considered disadvantageous at present may even become desirable when a more appropriate type of dispersion force is applied.

We don't know enough about how specific genes and mutations work to understand how they may be advantageous or disadvantageous at the population level.

Although feather-like hyphal filaments (Fig. 2a) were observed to be optimal for ARA production at low densities (Park et al. 1999), this morphology is disadvantageous at high cell densities because viscosity of the ferrmentation broth may be increased to an extent that oxygen transmission becomes limited (Wynn and Ratledge 2005).

Such behaviour is obviously disadvantageous at the individual level, as Darwin realized: "he who was ready to sacrifice his life, as many a savage has been, rather than betray his comrades, would often leave no offspring to inherit his noble nature" (p.163).

Reversely the down regulation of certain genes could be associated with the tissue reducing the activity of pathways that are disadvantageous at low levels of SMN.

The presence of −10 sites in coding regions could potentially diminish the efficiency of transcription initiation through competition with RNAP-binding sites in the upstream regulatory regions, which could be disadvantageous at very fast growth rates.

Additionally, the advantages of controllability and affordability of diesel generator sets are contrasted to their disadvantageous performance at partial load and environmental harmfulness.

In this passage, Darwin clearly demonstrates his awareness that a) moral behaviors are locally disadvantageous or at best deliver no advantage, compared to less moral individuals within the same group, and b) moral behaviors expressed within groups can be decisively advantageous in between-group competition.

Most teams, including the BayStars, lease their stadiums, often at disadvantageous rates, and their share of the concessions is smaller than what American teams receive.

PPX enhanced disadvantageous decision-making at a dose (0.3 mg/kg/day, SC) that reduced phasic dopamine release in the NAcc.

Others, however, offered far less, and were able to build in hidden fees or to delay delivering the funds or to change currency at disadvantageous rates — all of which consumers only learned about after the fact.