Sentence examples for marginal activity and from inspiring English sources

A comprehensive review of deterrence suggests that crime is often a relatively marginal activity and that even serious prolific offenders, including those involved in gang violence, can be nudged away from it if the right levers are pulled (Kennedy 2009).

Systemic chemotherapy has marginal activity and frequent toxicity and is not associated with improved survival.

Systemic chemotherapy and immunotherapy (IFN- α) have only marginal activity and are poorly tolerated in cirrhotic patients (Llovet et al, 2000; Nowak et al, 2004).

In contrast to PtTPS5, PtTPS7, PtTPS9 and PtTPS11, the putative STS PtTPS14 showed only marginal activity with FPP and produced trace amounts of germacrene D (data not shown).

Moreover, extensive herding of sheep is a marginal activity in the country, and livestock breeders have the feeling they are marginalized and not a concern of the state.

What was once a pointedly outsider and marginal activity — performance art, the creation of time-based work that defied definition and continuing exhibition — has become the everyday stuff of major museums.

In vitro substrate activity screening of a library of thioester metabolites showed that YbdB displays high activity with benzoyl- holoEntB and benzoyl-CoA substrates, marginal activity with acyl-CoA thioesters, and no activity with 1,4-dihydoxynapthoyl-CoA.

Only the ring-tailed lemur TAAR5 displayed marginal activity when incubated with di- and trimethylamine (see Figures 4E, F).

Consequently, energy intake through the cows' milk based formula is low (about the same as 33% IF; Table 3), and only marginal activity was observed for it in the uterotrophic assay (Ashby et al. 2000).

Recent reports have shown marginal activity of pemetrexed (Loehrer et al, 2006) and combined carboplatin and paclitaxel (Lemma et al, 2008).

Because of the multi-target action of the components, the anti-inflammatory activity is achieved at doses where prednisolone and dipyridamole have marginal activity as individual agents.