Sentence examples for intermediate less from inspiring English sources

The various beak phenotypes are thus expected to behave as co-recessive traits since hybrids would express intermediate, less suitable phenotypes.

Participants reporting 2 or more falls in the year prior to testing were considered as fallers; this definition was used to ensure a clear distinction between the two groups and to focus on (multiple) fallers and nonfallers, excluding older adults who may be in an intermediate, less well-defined, and more ambiguous state with respect to their fall history.

However, it is unclear whether this reduction in the steady-state level of mitotic dHJs reflects a real reduction in the proportion of DSBs repaired through this intermediate, less stability of dHJs in mitotic cells than in meiotic cells, or differences in the structure between meiotic and mitotic dHJs that affect the efficiency of the crosslinking procedure (Bzymek et al. 2010).

These helices could form β-strands by unfolding into intermediates less likely to refold into a helical conformation [54].

To increase the yield of the desired 3-keto-Δ-steroids after oxidation of 3β-hydroxy-Δ-steroids with Dess Martin periodinane, the 3-keto-Δ intermediates (less polar) are dissolved to 0.1 M in a 1 1 (v/v) mixture of methanol:dichloromethane and treated with 0.001% (v/v) of concentrated HCl.

Their English is above intermediate but less than fluent.

Three motivational groups were selected: highly motivated, intermediate and less motivated.

Lands has pitched Binded's platform as an intermediate step — less time-consuming and expensive than registration, but still creating an independent record that should have legal weight.

Geetha and Fulekhar (2008) utilised cow dung slurry in the ratio of 1 10 for bioremediation of pesticides namely chlorpyrifos, cypermethrin, fenvalerate and trichlopyr butoxyethyl ester and found that all these pesticides are degraded into some intermediate or less harmful compounds.

In terms of virulence, strains belonging to two other conspicuous genotype families, the so-called Haarlem and Somali clades, displayed rather intermediate and less homogeneous results [ 14].

Since fixation of a deleterious intermediate becomes less likely in larger populations, this means that increasing the population size initially decreases the relative influence of fitness-valley crossing.