Sentence examples for may represent failure from inspiring English sources

The increases in DD branching and gaps in the dorsal cord observed in adult ju89 animals may represent failure of the axon to grow (inserting new membrane and synaptic components) as mutant animals mature to their adult size.

Another possibility is that some cases may represent failure to find the optimal tree (although we assume that these cases will likely show only weak support).

Elevated bilirubin and PT ratio may represent failure of the liver to metabolise waste products and perform its synthetic function [ 33, 34].

Persisting nontreponemal antibodies after effective therapy may thus represent failure of immune tolerance rather than lack of pathogen clearance.

Tyson, in turn, may represent the failure of that vision, the loss of hope, and a country that abandoned its ghettos and promises of social justice; and this might help explain his continued popularity in the African-American community.

"The end-of-history effect may represent a failure in personal imagination," said Dan P. McAdams, a psychologist at Northwestern who has done separate research into the stories people construct about their past and future lives.

Impulsive behaviour may represent a failure to inhibit an action with negative consequences, and may reflect a lack of planning, impaired decision-making and tendency to fast action (Alvarez-Moya et al. 2011).

However, some patients manifest < 4-fold decline ("serological non-response") or persistently positive nontreponemal titers despite an appropriate decline ("serofast") that <span class="lh">may represent treatment failure, reinfection, or a benign immune response.

The transgene dependent loss of HSPs in these animal models may represent a failure to compensate for aggregate HTT, tau, or A β oligomers with aging and be relevant to the removal of those toxic aggregates as well as neuroprotection.

Nonactivation of PC in sepsis may represent the failure of an appropriate protective response and is therefore associated with increased mortality, especially when the APACHE II score is elevated.

The presence of persistent nontreponemal antibodies may represent treatment failure, reinfection, or another undefined immune phenomenon; however, none of the studies in our review could distinguish among these possibilities when neither a four-fold rise in nontreponemal antibody titers nor a history of re-exposure was evident.