Sentence examples for function as intermediates from inspiring English sources

The iBuOH/gasoline blends are only able to achieve greater than 90% NOx conversion when operated at a GHSV of 10,000 h−1 and employing a C1 N ratio of 12. Iso-butyraldehyde and NO2 appear to function as intermediates in the iBuOH-SCR mechanism, which mirrors the mechanism observed for EtOH-SCR.

It has been proposed that Ras proteins function as intermediates in signal transduction initiated by a large variety of growth factors such as epidermal growth factor (EGF) and platelet – derived growth factor (PDGF) [29], [30].

Many orphan snoRNAs were found to generate sdRNAs and it has been suggested that they might function as intermediates in this pathway [19].

The fact that a specific subset of Fe-S proteins is affected in these newly described diseases suggests that target specificity is achieved through use of specific scaffold proteins that function as intermediates between ISCU and target proteins.

Considering the sequential EMT-MET, the preliminary hypothesis that an optimal mesenchymal may function as intermediate for efficient cell fate conversions might be more reasonable.

A wide variety of small rodents, especially voles and lemmings of the subfamily Arvicolinae, can function as intermediate hosts (1, 2 ).

Microbiota features emerging from the stage 1 analyses will also be included and analyzed as mediators in stage 2 using marginal structural models to evaluate shifts in microbiota composition and function as intermediate steps in the nutrition and EED causal pathways to infant growth (mediation analysis) [ 79].

While similar results were reported in salt-stressed wheat plants (Wu et al. 2013), our results were somehow contradictory to the expectation that OA levels would increase because of their possible functions as intermediates in plant carbon metabolism and as key components in environmental stress response (López-Bucio et al. 2000; Korn et al. 2010).

I suggest that PRRSV is derived from LDV and that wild boars have functioned as intermediate hosts, based on the following observations.

Parents who chose to discuss things with the physician in the absence of their child and thereby functioned as intermediate in the information exchange between physician and patient, mostly did this because they wanted to shield their child from potentially upsetting information, or because they considered their child too young to be burdened with such information.

These wild boars functioned as intermediate hosts and spread the virus to North Carolina in imported, infected European wild boars in 1912; the virus then evolved independently on the two continents in the prevalent wild hog populations for approximately 70 years until independently entering the domestic pig population.