They were easily dealt with by the pervasive "stability-maintenance" machinery.No single change explains why China might be nearer to a tipping point now.
Genetic loss-of-function experiments involving the DNA methyltransferases have only just begun to elucidate their pervasive effects on genomic stability and the crosstalk between DNA methylation and the histone code.
Debt is a pervasive theme with undeniable consequences for financial stability and family integrity.
Environmental perturbation and emergent disease can threaten food security, socioeconomic and ecological stability across the north with pervasive cascading effects for northern cultures, and communities that remain dependant on wildlife resources (Hoberg et al., 2008a, b).
Hsu suggests that we are locked into our carbon-hungry lives and our extractive livelihoods by specific and pervasive public policies which favour the creation and stability of capital.
Human activities are now so pervasive and profound that they are altering the stability of the earth in ways that threaten the very life support system upon which humanity depends.
Earlier involvement in politics by members of the military had not threatened the stability of Brazil's institutions, due to pervasive loyalty to the monarchy and constitution.
Recently Ackermann and Chao postulated that selection for sequence stability in coding regions has been a pervasive force in the distribution biases of mononucleotide repeats (MNRs) in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic genome sequences [ 12].
This conservation dynamics of vertebrate CNC is perhaps best explained by an evolutionary process consisting of long periods of high stability alternating with short periods of rapid and pervasive adaptive changes.
"The world is at a very difficult juncture," said Andrew Burns, a lead author of the report, in an interview, citing fears about the stability of the euro zone, slower growth in emerging economies and pervasive market uncertainty as major factors.
The instrument has sufficient to good internal consistency, test retest stability, interrater-reliability, and discriminates between normal children and children with a pervasive development disorder, which are known to display deficits in this cognitive domain [ 17].
