Sentence examples for relatively weak levels from inspiring English sources

Progressive hardening by ongoing quartz veining and/or cementation is a possible process to increase the frictional strength of the sedimentary décollement by which fracturing can break through to relatively weak levels within the basalt (Figure 7).

Waxman-Markey may set national standards at relatively weak levels, but plenty of states have tougher renewable electricity standards.

Our analyses show that active enhancers are marked by the strong presence of H3K9ac and H3K14ac along with H3K27ac and H3K4me1 and those inactive/poised enhancers are marked by the presence of H3K4me1 together with relatively weak levels of H3K14ac.

Although several PLL promoters drove GUS activity at relatively weak levels along the axis of primary roots (see below), six (PLL16, 19, 21-23, 26) showed strong activity in primary roots of 12-d-old plants that were initiating lateral roots.

A high degree of reproductive isolation could appear at odds with the relatively weak level of genetic structure observed when outlier loci were removed (Fig. S2).

Although this corresponds to a relatively weak level of outlier significance [a log10 (PO) ≥0<0.5 value is considered "barely worth mentioning" according to Jeffrey's Bayes factor interpretation], markers at this significance threshold were mapped to compare their position to detected QTL.

This is perhaps unsurprising since the study also reported that these experts suggested the evidence underlying their decisions was either absent or relatively weak (evidence levels III or IV based on the evidential hierarchy described by the United States Agency for Health Care Policy and Research) [ 40], and that in most cases personal experience was a key factor in their decision-making [ 1].

We also found in this study an inverse correlation between IL-6 and IGF-1, although the P value (0.032) was relatively weak and serum levels of IGF-1 were only half of the reference values of age-matched healthy post-menopausal women [ 34].

The observed associations between Hg and Cd exposures and TH levels were relatively weak on the individual level, with an IQR increase in exposure associated with a 1 4% change in hormone levels.

It remains relatively weak at national level, as the member states retain the main levers of economic control, and the European Union's own budget is only 1% of the total European GNP.

In spite of accounting for a number of socio-demographic factors the correlations between our selection scores and academic performance remained relatively weak and similar to levels reported by others [ 2, 5].