Sentences with phrase «of nonfunctional»

I would argue that the banning of R - 12 had an initial negative economic effect that does not even begin to compare to the negative economic effects of a nonfunctional ozone layer.

The nucleus - encoded factor MCD4 participates in degradation of nonfunctional 3 «UTR sequences generated by cleavage of pre-mRNA in Chlamydomonas chloroplasts

Once the reader understands that those hyphenated pairs of adjectives name categories in his quirky taxonomy of nonfunctional objects in literature, and once one learns what those categories entail, the going gets easier.

For Orlando, the odd prominence of the nonfunctional in Western literature after the late eighteenth century signals a Freudian «return of the repressed.»

Seven of Orlando's categories of the nonfunctional in literature developed in the eighteenth or nineteenth century.

Not exact matches

You might know that there are three types of patents: utility (protection for new, nonobvious inventions), design (a design that is new but nonfunctional), and plant (covering asexually reproducing flora).

Orlando isolates twelve types of writing about the nonfunctional, each of them deriving from one of the bifurcating branches of a neat semantic tree.

Psuedogenes are remnants of genes that once served a purpose in our genome that they no longer fulfil, because of mutations that have rendered the genes nonfunctional, i.e., they no longer lead to the production of proteins (long chains of amino acids) that once contributed to specific characteristics in ancient ancestors.

E.g., nonfunctional nostrils in gannets and other members of the family Sulidae.

Although Professor Behe is adamant in his definition of irreducible complexity when he says a precursor «missing a part is by definition nonfunctional,» what he obviously means is that it will not function in the same way the system functions when all the parts are present.

I have found that even my Fuzzibunz Totes that have nonfunctional zippers still work great as long as I just roll up the bag instead of zipping it shut.

Today New York is a laughingstock because of its chronically dysfunctional legislature and its recent nonfunctional governors.

You start with a kind of memory impairment where you forget where you put your car keys, but you end up with somebody completely nonfunctional, unable to speak or recognize their own kids.

DNA INVESTIGATION Geneticists examined DNA from more than 10,000 people in Pakistan looking for people in whom both copies of certain genes were nonfunctional.

High rates of marriage between closely related people there make it more likely that people will inherit two nonfunctional gene copies.

The number of individuals with nonfunctional rods and cones that still have the ability to sense light is likely «vanishingly small,» he says.

people who carry two nonfunctional copies of one of the roughly 20,000 human genes.

Iceland's genomes also yielded a bounty of so - called human knockouts — people who carry two nonfunctional copies of one of the roughly 20,000 human genes.

By comparing the armadillo gene to other closely related mammals, a team of scientists has now identified several cone - related genes in the armadillo genome that became nonfunctional millions of years ago, they report today at the Society for Neuroscience conference in San Diego, California.

They produced AvrBsT in different regions of tobacco leaves along with SOBER1 and several mutated (and thus nonfunctional) versions of the enzyme.

Researchers also hope to gather information on healthy people who have mutations in both copies of a gene that make it nonfunctional.

Reporting online this week in Nature Genetics, the team says it uncovered nine genes, each of which, when nonfunctional, causes XLMR.

A human - specific gene expressed only in glial cells of the brain apparently arose from conversion of the ancestral gene by a nonfunctional pseudogene in a common human chimp ancestor.

We identified human X-linked genes whose gametologs have been pseudogenized or completely lost from the Y chromosome and inferred which evolutionary forces may be acting to retain genes on the Y. Although gene loss appears to be largely correlated with the suppression of recombination, we observe that X-linked genes with functional Y homologs evolve under stronger purifying selection and are expressed at higher levels than X-linked genes with nonfunctional Y homologs.

Additionally, we support and expand upon the hypothesis that X inactivation is primarily driven by gene loss on the Y. Using linear discriminant analysis, we show that X-inactivation status can successfully classify 90 % of X-linked genes into those with functional or nonfunctional Y homologs.

One of these cancer targets is a so - called «nonsense» protein, a nonfunctional protein that is the result of a misread DNA sequence.

We have found that some molecules misdirect capsid assembly, presumably by distorting the dimer geometry, giving rise to the rapid production of misshapen and nonfunctional structures.

Afflicted children of the Keshan province succumbed to cardiac failure with a dilated, nonfunctional heart, also called cardiomyopathy.

His mysteriousness, unlike that of Schindler in Schindler's List, seems vague and nonfunctional.

However, when it came to Pathways, the primary driving force for us was a much more specific one — a concern for the welfare of our students who were being harmed by an often nonfunctional credit - transfer system — and we were determined to remove that harm no matter how difficult that might be.

Details of their curricula can not be found on the school's website, however, which mostly comprises weblinks that are nonfunctional.

Unplugged Performance lowered the adjustable air suspension to get an extra 1.5 inches of drop, covered just about every exposed interior surface in carbon fiber, and fitted a body package that embraces the Model X's big, smooth, aero - friendly vacancies on front and rear bumpers instead of tacking on fake vents or superfluous, nonfunctional trim.

And in Jonathan Kellerman's riveting and ingenious new novel, Monster, he faces one of the most grisly and baffling mysteries of his career: How can a nonfunctional psychotic locked up in a supposedly secure institution for homicidal madmen predict brutal murders in the outside world?

Signs of ivermectin toxicosis can occur in any breed but are most common in ivermectin - sensitive breeds such as collies and other herding breeds.20, 21 Ivermectin sensitivity is derived from a frameshift deletion mutation of the multidrug resistance gene (MDR1; the most recent nomenclature is ABC ±), resulting in a severely truncated, nonfunctional protein product.

Male cats have a total of eight nonfunctional nipples.

To eliminate bias on the part of pet owners and veterinarians observing response to treatment with the Assisi Loop, the company provided functional loops and some nonfunctional loops.

The kidneys have a very large reserve capacity, and symptoms of failure are not seen until approximately 75 % of kidney tissue is nonfunctional.

Stable Brown VM84 a work by David Adika, presented on view as part of «Gatherer / Nonfunctional Display», a group exhibition at Artists» Studios, Jerusalem, 2015.

This mode of display represents a flowing, open structure of seemingly nonfunctional knowledge, while the curatorial decision is political as much as it is emotional and associative.

It is part of our an ongoing research project, where people are asked to list nonfunctional objects they have collected along with their stories, which create for them the personal layer of a home.

Exploring the fraught relationship of an increasingly modernized China to its cultural heritage, Ai began creating works that irrevocably transformed centuries - old Chinese artifacts — for instance, a Han dynasty urn onto which he painted the Coca - Cola logo (1994) and pieces of Ming - and Qing - era furniture broken down and reassembled into various nonfunctional configurations.

Merging architecture, design, and sculpture, their elegant and mordantly humorous work negotiates between the functional and the nonfunctional, drawing inspiration from the physical world — particularly that of architectural constructions; cities, buildings, and swimming pools.

Los Carpinteros» work — which combines and celebrates architecture, design and sculpture and balances between functional and nonfunctional — are part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art / Los Angeles, The Museum of Modern Art / New York, the Guggenheim Museum, the Tate Museum, and other major international museums and galleries.

Highlights in 2013 include the immersive installations of Daniel Steemann Mangrané at Mendes Wood (São Paulo); a nonfunctional telecommunications satelitte by artist and explorer Trevor Paglen at Altman Siegal (San Francisco); and a show and tell by gallery artists Sean Edwards, Jack Strange and Jesse Wine offering visitors the opportunity to talk with them about their work at Limoncello (London).

In their work the artists incorporate aspects of architecture, design and sculpture to create installations and drawings that «negotiate the space between the functional and the nonfunctional», [2] where they derive their «inspiration from the physical world» [2] and express their interest in the intersection of art and society in a humorous manner.

The works create an intriguing tension around the questions of using so much material for these nonfunctional objects that masquerade in the form of almost utilitarian objects.

Erlich is well known for turning the ordinary — an elevator, a swimming pool, a staircase, and in this instance, a harbor — into a nonfunctional work that takes the viewer into a world of deception.

Some sellers may be reluctant because they think LED light is too cool or the bulbs are expensive and nonfunctional with dimmers — all of which was once true, but has changed since the first generation debuted.