But there is still the opportunity to be an active gardener and transform less-than-pristine places into something that meets one of your goals?
Fritts's devices were very inefficient converters of energy; they transformed less than 1 percent of absorbed light energy into electrical energy.
Mr. O'Hanlon pointed out that before World War II, the German army transformed less than 20percentt of its ground forces into the blitzkrieg capability that won the sudden, decisive victories in the early years of the war in Europe.
Further, structural variants (SVs; insertions, deletions, and other rearrangements) can cotransform with flanking markers as parts of longer recombination tracts, though they appear to transform less readily than single-nucleotide variants (SNVs) (Mell et al. 2011; Stuy and Walter 1981).
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What makes this version work transforming a less-than-great musical into greatly affecting entertainment is its insistence on the saving graces of the characters' illusions about themselves and, by extension, the illusions of the production in which they appear.
As a method to transform yeast, low-energy ion beam bombardment is both highly efficient and since yeast can be transformed in less than 10 min, much more rapid than other yeast transformation methods.
The country was transformed in less than two decades from a largely agricultural backwater into one of the world's most dynamic industrial nations.
An empty field 15 miles south has been transformed, in less than a year, into the new city, Eternal Prosperity, a vast grid of multistory buildings over which more than 70 building cranes hover like a swarm of gigantic insects.
The $3.7 billion sent back by the 6.5m other Shantouese abroad transformed, in less than 15 years, a sleepy and fading port into a city of skyscrapers and luxury condominiums.
Written off as useless for centuries, the region has been transformed in less than a generation into Brazil's grain belt, thanks to the discovery that soils could be made fertile by dousing them with phosphorus and lime, whose optimum mixture was established by Embrapa scientists.
