Sentence examples for unfavourable sites from inspiring English sources

Because of their great base widths, embankment dams can be constructed on unfavourable sites, such as open-joined rock or weaker and possibly locally permeable clay.

It can also be assumed that, because of lower tree heights, unfavourable sites are less vulnerable to storm damage and that their share will therefore increase with advancing stand development stage.

It is assumed that the cause of this frequently occurring pattern is that the share of unfavourable sites is much higher in stands in advanced development stages than in younger stands, because such sites have on average poorer access, lower management intensity and a lower timber felling rate.

These aggregations in unfavourable sites seem sub-optimal.

The site-modified TNM system divides patients into favourable and unfavourable sites but has been abandoned by the Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP) in favour of the IRS grouping system.

Where unfavourable site or soil conditions prohibit the use of both absorption fields and seepage pits, mound systems may be utilized for on-site sewage disposal.

Having demonstrated that the thioesterification reaction appeared to be selective, we conducted another small screen of test peptides to probe for particularly favourable or unfavourable thioesterification sites.

Poor transgene expression could be attributed potentially to the integration of the gene into an unfavourable genomic site such as a silent heterochromatin region or near to unfavourable transcription enhancers.

No clear-cut answer to the cause of the strong (300) texture could, however, be presented but a mechanism based on a blocking of unfavourable Al2O3 surface sites by ZrCl4 is suggested as the most plausible.

In the case of the edible weeds Anoda cristata and Crotalaria pumila, research was directed to evaluate differential abundance of favourable and unfavourable phenotypes within sites under a gradient of management intensity.

The revival of this period was both economic and cultural, but there is less archaeological evidence preserved than for earlier times because the economic centre of the country was now the delta, where conditions for the preservation of ancient sites were unfavourable.