Few countries stood to benefit more from such a transformation than Italy, where large firms have been as prone to state meddling and inefficiency as small ones have been to world-beating excellence.
Since the system in question is a rail yard with 18 routes, 22 lights signals and 27 points, it is prone to state explosion.
These data indicate that the modified peptides 33208 and 33210 were more prone to state as α-helix than native peptide 11438 as a consequence of minor entropy change in fold unfold transition.
The Ford Motor Company must replace defective ignition devices on an estimated two million cars in California that are prone to stalling, a state judge ruled today.
Man is disintegrating in the aftermath of some traumatic event, isolated in his affluent surroundings and prone to fugue states in which neither he nor the reader is sure of what's real.
The proliferation of light weapons in Africa had suddenly made children effective as fighters, and they returned from the wars having missed crucial stages in their psychological development: they tended to be easily provoked, and prone to dissociative states, a coping mechanism that had once allowed them to be calm in the face of extreme violence.
The government says henceforth all disputes will be settled in local courts, which are widely perceived to be wholly under the thumb of the executive.That really comes down to Mr Chávez himself, who is prone to decree state takeovers of land, factories and other businesses with no prior notice, and with scant regard for the law or the constitution.
It is shown that this structure is prone to steady-state error when external disturbances enter or actual system varies from its model.
In support of the latter hypothesis, we have recently shown that only CP in an aggregated and 'less prone to degradation' state could be detected, thus leading us to speculate that some CP escape identification, due to their high degradation rate [17].
Cu ions are prone to low oxidation state (Cu+ and Cu2+), while Co ions basically exhibit high oxidation state (Co3+ and Co4+).
