Sentence examples for unproductive components from inspiring English sources

There is strong evidence that agroforestry has potential for improving water use efficiency by reducing the unproductive components of the water balance, i.e. run-off, soil evaporation and drainage.

The recalcitrance of cellulosic biomass to biological attack is a complex and not fully understood phenomenon, with contributing factors including inaccessibility to enzymes and microbes, chemical linkages between carbohydrate and non-carbohydrate components, and unproductive binding of enzymes to lignin [ 22- 24].

Investigation revealed that due to motherboard design errors, the machine had difficulty in placing integrated circuits onto the pads, the operators had much difficulty in manual soldering certain components and much unproductive manual cleaning (MC) was required.

This may be due to factors such as changes in the microenvironments of the active sites, possible unproductive competition between functionally similar enzymes, difficulties in component arrangement as well as the nature of the peptide linker.

Except for inhibition by end-products or other components [ 51, 65], this can be due to enzyme deactivation, unproductive enzyme adsorption [ 66], decreasing availability of chain ends [ 24], and increasing crystallinity with conversion of pretreated cellulose [ 67].

Unproductive co-translational folding intermediates that arise during protein synthesis may undergo enhanced interaction with components of these systems, such as chaperones, and/or be subjects of co-translational degradation ("death").

– unproductive.

It becomes very unproductive".

Set pieces were unproductive.

It is unproductive".

"That is socially unproductive.