Wierzbicka (1996) proposed a catalogue of about 60 primes, to be exploited to spell out the internal structure of word meanings and grammatical constructions using so-called reductive paraphrases: for example, 'top' is analyzed as a part of something; this part is above all the other parts of this something.
For example, reductive alkylation of lysine residues induced a molten globule structure in the thermostable lipase found in the Geobacillus zalihae strain T1 and decreased the stability of this protein.
PCB mixtures found in the environment often do not match any of the known commercial formulations because they have been subjected to congener-selective environmental processes, for example, reductive dechlorination by anaerobic bacteria (Bedard and Quensen 1995; Quensen et al. 1988 , 1990.
From a theoretical point of view, it is also reasonable that BDE-209 should have a relatively shorter half-life than other PBDEs because of its susceptibility to undergo, for example, reductive dehalogenation and substitution reactions under experimental conditions (Eriksson et al. 2003; Rahm et al. 2005).
For example, the reductive dissolution of Ni50Fe50 alloys is expected to result in preferential release of Fe and a concomitant increase in the Ni Fe ratio of the residual alloy.
A common belief is that evolution generally proceeds towards greater complexity at both the organismal and the genomic level, numerous examples of reductive evolution of parasites and symbionts notwithstanding.
Of course Tinder isn't the only dating app, it's just an example of a reductive mode of framing people and a destructive way of communicating with each other.
If you think about it, Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Map is a perfect example of how reductive approaches to science may be necessary to resolve some of the world's more pressing complications.
Some autotrophic organisms for example invoke a reductive TCA cycle to fix CO2 into acetyl-CoA [4].
A typical example is the reductive evolution of the species of the intracellular parasites Rickettsia from the ancestral "Mother of Rickettsia" 25– 25.
