Sentence examples for which could confer from inspiring English sources

"China's current problem is that it has no strongman, and no democratic decision-making system," either of which could confer legitimacy, said the researcher, whose specialty is Communist Party history.

Synergistic interaction between genes on chromosome 22q11 recently has been proposed as a possible mechanism which could confer increased risk for schizophrenia.

From a nutritional point of view, science-based cooking may contribute to providing certain nutrients and other food components, which could confer healthy aspects to the dishes and menus.

Perhaps the most intriguing hypothesis linking BD and diabetes mellitus has focused on underlying immune dysfunctions paired with a chronic inflammatory state, which could confer risk for both BD and diabetes mellitus (Leboyer et al. 2012; Hamdani et al. 2013; Sharma et al. 2014; Rosenblat and McIntyre 2015; Kim et al. 2015).

Transmittable phages and plasmids contain unique genetic elements which could confer novel characteristics on the recipients.

Also, these individuals may arrive at their destinations earlier or in better condition than conspecifics, which could confer fitness benefits in terms of larger clutches, better territories, mates, and earlier breeding [7], [25], [27].

Because BMI may be on the causal pathway through which breastfeeding could confer a reduced risk of diabetes (2), the effect of breastfeeding was also examined in subgroups of BMI.

Down-regulation of specific proteases might result in a lower and/or improper toxin activation which could also confer resistance.

Similarly, studies using clonal analysis in Drosophila have begun to elucidate cell competition mechanisms, which could potentially confer malignant cells with a growth advantage over their neighbors.

This constitutes a diverse pool of sequence-specific DNA binding factors, which could potentially confer and/or maintain DNA methylation at escapee loci with target motifs.

In silico analysis of the distal regions indicated the presence of auxin-responsive elements in the CsACS1G promoter, which could potentially confer responsiveness of this gene to specific hormonal factors and control female sex expression.