Sentences with phrase «act as braking»

These new CEOs would also act as a brake to temper the founder's excesses.

If Trump follows through with campaign promises to take a tougher line on global trade, that could act as a brake on U.S. growth, said O'Neil.

«It is false to argue that environmental conservation acts as a brake on economic development.

We see clearly in the result of the 2016 presidential election that political outcomes can act as a brake on runaway cultural agendas promoted by activists and elites at the extremes of public opinion.

Before birth, progesterone acts as a brake on milk production.

The stroller has a large bar connecting the rear wheels which acts as a brake.

Precisely how young depends on the mass density of the Universe, because the gravitational attraction of this mass acts as a brake on the Universe's expansion.

«This protein appears to normally act as a brake — preventing nerve growth.

Now, for the first time, researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Faculty of Medicine have revealed how a protein called Erbin acts as a brake against this excessive and pathological growth of heart muscle.

At the halfway point at the core, gravity is lowest and begins to act as a brake, slowing the train as it approaches the destination.

During times of chronic stress, foods laden with sugar and calories act as a brake on the body's overworked emergency response system.

They traced the effect to changes in dopamine, a brain chemical that contributes to the experience of reward, and to possible changes in GABA receptors, which can act as a brake system to keep dopamine in check.

Siglecs act as brakes, stopping the immune system from overreacting.

A side effect of losing PRMT - 5 in C. elegans is a heightened sense of smell: In the worms, dopamine signaling acts as a brake or check on the sensory system's response to odorants.

Currently, the group has engineered a simple prototype that includes a spring and two dampers that act as brake pads.

The researchers found that the motor protein kinesin - 5 (green) helps prepare the spindle by organizing its filaments, or microtubules, (red) by pushing them or acting as a brake.

The gut is also loaded with cannabinoid receptors that can act as brakes on the urge to eat.

XIAP acts as a brake on caspase activity and must be removed for degeneration to proceed» added Dr. Barker.

Moreover, he says, there's evidence that certain histamine receptors cluster in the basal ganglia and that histamine signaling can act as a brake on dopamine signaling.

For example, a gene called p53, which normally acts as a brake on cell division, turns out to be mutated or lost in about half of all tumours.

PD - 1 acts as a brake, or checkpoint, to shut down activated T cells.

The gene Gas5Â acts as a brake on steroid hormone receptors, making it a key player in diseases such as hormone - sensitive prostate and breast cancer.

If a light touch taps into the itch accelerator, then these spinal - cord nerve cells act as the brakes, says Martyn Goulding, who also worked on the study.

The other type, known as indirect pathway MSNs (iMSNs), acts as a brake.

Like its more famous older sibling, CTLA - 4, PD - 1 is a protein found on immune cells that acts as a brake, or checkpoint.

First, the magnetic field is thought to act as a brake, slowing the star's rotation.

This chemical messenger acts as a brake, or inhibitor, on the firing of brain cells.

Such a bank is significantly shielded from investor and market influences that might otherwise act as a brake on risky financial strategies.

This part of the brain acts as a brake or filter on impulsive, emotional responses to stimuli.

However, as Timothy explained in # 121, in addition to the direct sea level rise that occurs when ice shelves melt, there is a much larger secondary effect, in that ice shelves act as a brake, greatly reducing the rate of flow of the glaciers behind them from the land to the sea; and when ice shelves melt, the rate of glacier flow increases quite rapidly.

The three are Garth Paltridge, Albert Arking and Michael Pook, and they have found that, contrary to climate model predictions, water vapour in the upper atmosphere is acting as a brake on global warming.

The author speculates that since it is liquid the outer core is also affected by gravitational tidal forces, in a similar manner to the oceans, but also it can be assumed that the magnetic field generating would act as a brake on its movement.

This positive buoyancy of the descending air acts as a brake on circulation.

Normally, each spring, the addition of fresher and more buoyant water into the Makassar Strait acts as a brake or plug on the Indonesian Throughflow.

It acts as a brake and turns into a generator, converting movement back into electric current.

The continent is flanked by 54 major ice shelves, which act as brakes slowing the movement of ice in land - based glaciers out to sea.

But the speculation has been one - sided, with talk of human influences on tornadoes following disasters, but little about whether human influences have acted as a brake on their numbers after anomalously low activity.

The magnetic field in the solar wind and the Sun were [and are] strongly coupled and acted as a brake on solar rotation [from 1 day to now 25 days period].

As Daly notes, section 96 is important doctrinally because it acts as a brake on provinces creating new decision - making bodies or conferring new powers on existing bodies.

If however human rights are given a heightened position within civil society, acting as a brake on any one interest dominating and destroying the interests of others, then Indigenous people will enjoy their unique culture while still participating in the broader society.

Former chief justice of the Family Court of Australia, Alastair Nicholson, said yesterday that the NT Government should play no part in the Royal Commission because it was «part of the problem,» and will «act as a brake on the freedom of the commission to inquire into what it ought to be inquiring into».

You need to slow things down - we act as your brake.

Not exact matches

«As fat cells grow larger, they begin to overexpress a protein that acts as a metabolic brake that slows down fat cell metabolism, making it harder for these cells to burn accumulating fat,» he said in a statemenAs fat cells grow larger, they begin to overexpress a protein that acts as a metabolic brake that slows down fat cell metabolism, making it harder for these cells to burn accumulating fat,» he said in a statemenas a metabolic brake that slows down fat cell metabolism, making it harder for these cells to burn accumulating fat,» he said in a statement.

Whilst the election results did not deliver the Conservatives the mandate to form a majority government, the coalition with the Liberal Democrats will not act as a progressive brake on the Conservatives.

The most common method of preventing this damage is to inject heavy ions, such as argon or neon, which act like brakes due to their large charge.

• Drag it down: European aerospace company EADS Astrium wants to give satellites in - built sails to act as an «orbital brake», dragging them into Earth's atmosphere.

Now it seems that neurotrophins in some cases act as both the accelerator and the brakes.

This suggested that Tregs act as a «brake» that prevents other immune cells from targeting and rejecting the second transplant.

GABA is a chemical messenger that acts as an inhibitor in the brain, which can slow things down and help to keep people calm — like a brake pedal.

However, another way of getting at a similar end - and one with more potential as a therapy - is to find out what the plasticity brake is acting on, and try to artificially boost the process being suppressed.