Sentence examples for mechanism or as from inspiring English sources

It's Kernberg's model that we now live with one that understands narcissism not as a defense mechanism, or as a fungible reaction to circumstance, but as a "condition of a failed self".

Liquid mixing is analysed separately on the basis of two different assumptions: as a dispersive mechanism or as a convective mechanism.

Metaphysics, like poetry, begins by being a matter of vision; a metaphysician sees the scheme of all things in a certain light; for example, as nothing more than a vast mechanism or as God's creation.

Our aim was to study if species richness patterns for North American birds were best viewed as the convergent response of different groups to a common mechanism or as the result of several different processes.

In addition, alkanes (predominantly long-chain compounds) are produced throughout the biosphere by living organisms (plants, algae and bacteria) as a waste product, a structural element, a defense mechanism, or as a chemoattractant (van Beilen et al., [2003]).

Their role in the differential regulation of autophagy, either as a cytoprotective mechanism or as a death process, is still of particular interest with respect to cancer.

A spokesperson for Elsevier said the company was open to any "mechanism or business model, as long as they are sustainable and maintain or improve existing levels of quality control".

Rather than looking at metrics as strictly a reporting mechanism or data as a way to geek out, growth hackers view both as inspiration for a better product through a process of theorizing and testing.

Secondary metabolites are mostly involved in the relationship of the organism with its environment, e.g. in plant defence mechanisms or as signal compound; their synthesis is often induced by different kinds of biotic and/or abiotic stresses.

Thus, the hypocretinergic system is affected in CH either as an intrical part of disease mechanisms or as an epiphenomenon, reflecting overall hypofunction of hypothalamic nuclei and descending, antinociceptive projections.

Activation of HIF can occur through genetic mechanisms or as a result of hypoxia within the tumour microenvironment.