While minimal cell damage can be repaired by removal of damaged organelles via cellular stress response pathways or autophagy, more severe damage is associated with structural changes (e.g., swelling of the cell membrane).
"What we did not estimate accurately was the duration of strong winds, which resulted in significantly more severe damage".
Such action would be taken to prevent more severe damage to electrical circuits and to allow power to be restored more quickly once the storm had passed.
To avoid more severe damage to our cultural heritage, wildlife and countryside in the future, we need to move towards a better, more sustainable approach to energy use, based on energy conservation, localisation and greater use of renewable sources.
Formula One cars are designed to rigorous safety specifications but are built with the expectation of impacts with trackside structures such as tyre barriers or safety walls, rather than recovery vehicles, which would have caused far more severe damage.
A shutdown in Manhattan, where the company's cables and pipes mostly run beneath the streets, would prevent more severe damage to electrical circuits and allow power to be restored more quickly once the storm passes.
Mr. Bloomberg said electricity could be turned off in some parts of Lower Manhattan and in other low-lying areas to avoid more severe damage from flooding, but he added that no decision had yet been made.
If unchecked, nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy can lead to worsened blood flow to the retina, more severe damage, and the appearance of new abnormal blood vessels on the optic disk, retina, and even iris (proliferative diabetic retinopathy).
