Sentence examples for sensitivity to attacks from inspiring English sources

Hence, different architectures can be compared based on their sensitivity to attacks, and the method can be used to guide decision both in architecting the system-of-systems and in planning updates and modifications, accounting for the impact of interdependencies on the robustness of the system-of-systems.

Tumor cells utilize two major mechanisms to evade the immune response: (a) modification of the tumor cells themselves to decrease their sensitivity to attacks by functional immune cells, and (b) direct modulation of the host immune cells to secrete cytokines such as TGF-β and IL-10.

Those two outer layers appear to weaken the interphase because of their sensitivity to hydrothermal attacks.

Stout et al. (2002) have found that younger rice plants appeared to be less tolerant to herbivory than older rice plants, though Elger et al. (2009) have reported a higher sensitivity to herbivore attacks in young seedlings of British grassland species than in older conspecifics.

Owing to the ITO sensitivity to acid attack, no pure WO3 coating could have been obtained.

All of these data suggested that repression of PAO by the inhibitor resulted in production of less H2O2 and a concomitant increase of sensitivity to Xac attack.

The corrosion mechanism of the top layers was identified to be intergranular and pitting corrosion, while lower sensitivity to these localized attacks were detected toward the brazing sheet core.

A set of the identified aminoacidic substitutions, close to the secondary plastoquinone binding niche and oxygen evolving complex, were introduced by site-directed mutagenesis in un-transformed strains, and their sensitivity to free radicals attack analyzed.

Loss of UL/ b' correlates with greatly enhanced sensitivity to NK cell attack (Cerboni et al., 2000; Tomasec et al., 2005; Wang et al., 2002), which is ascribed in part to loss of UL141 and UL142.

Osmophobia refers to an increased sensitivity to odors during migraine attacks, and it seems to be a distinguishing feature of migraine [16].

By chemically modifying vegetable oils (through reactions such as epoxidation, esterification, and acetylation), their characteristics such as sensitivity to hydrolysis and oxidative attacks, low-temperature properties, and viscosity index coefficients can be improved.