Sentence examples for soft transformation from inspiring English sources

In this way, argues Mr Roe, America avoids political instability and achieves "soft transformation".

This plan allows a realistic "soft" transformation the Besançon metropolitan area in keeping with the five planning principles set out above and makes the region more multifractal.

For me, I'm more than happy to stick dirty clothes in the washer, toss them in the dryer and witness their clean, soft transformation, and then let them sit in the laundry basket for two weeks -- until they wrinkle beyond recognition.

But they were extremely soft transformations.

Certain "soft" transformations inducing only slight structural modifications may be surprisingly ineffective when a molecule's bioactivity is linked to more than just highly localized functional groups.

Such soft transformations appear most common for natural attenuation (e.g., solar photolysis, biodegradation), but may also occur in some engineered treatment systems.

Moreover, in Crk-I transformed NIH3T3 cells, RNAi downmodulation of SOS1 significantly decreased cell transformation (soft colony formation) and tumorigenicity when Crk-I transformed cells were xenografted in nude mice (Bruce Mayer, personal communication).

In contrast, for "soft" orientations, the transformation rate is lower for larger grains.

Moreover, the soft agar (cell transformation) assay demonstrated a highly dependence on the presence of UCP2, since the UCP2-knockdown cells were much less prone to form colonies compared to the control JB6 P+ cells (Fig. 5C,5D).

By restoring miR-143 expression in colon cancer cells, we indeed showed that miR-143 suppressed both cell growth and soft-agar malignant transformation in colon cancer cells, suggesting a tumour-suppressive role of miR-143.

The ability of microbial biofilms to retard decomposition of delicate soft-tissues by means of mineralization has been documented [29] [31], though previous studies have dealt primarily with microbially-mineralized soft-tissues, such as phosphatization of soft-tissues in the fossil record, focusing on the microbial transformation of soft-tissues into authigenic minerals [12].