potential mechanism
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpotentialandmechanism
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potential
adjective[before noun]
uk/pəˈten.ʃəl/us/poʊˈten.ʃəl/
possible when the necessary ...
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mechanism
noun[C]
uk/ˈmek.ə.nɪ.zəm/us/ˈmek.ə.nɪ.zəm/
a part of a machine, or a set of parts that ...
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In conclusion, this study has provided insight into apotentialmechanismby which bovine embryos cope with environmental stress and chromosome abnormalities.
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Control of seedling emergence by ground cover: apotentialmechanisminvolving seed predation.
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Therefore, pharmacological modulation of immunological processes has been explored as apotentialmechanismof antidepressant efficacy.
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Anotherpotentialmechanismof self-regulation is through tonic inhibition.
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These findings raise the interesting possibility that programmed cell death could be apotentialmechanism underlying the follicular epithelium of vertebrate oogenesis.
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A secondpotentialmechanismis the presence of plants with different life forms that grow interspersed with and underneath the crowns of emergent trees.
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Biochemical identification of apoptosis (programmed cell death) in granulosa cells: evidence for apotentialmechanismunderlying follicular atresia.
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This provides apotentialmechanismin vivo for conveying the strong impact of arousal in potentiating and cementing emotional memory.
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Onepotentialmechanismfor handling this is to have complete transparency surrounding the economic models used, but a more general level of disclosure regarding selected, proprietary data inputs.
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Apart from these psychosocial moderating factors, there is anotherpotentialmechanismthat may explain the relatively modest association observed between peer victimization and children's aggressive behavior.
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Craig et al. (pp. 199-209) studied apotentialmechanismfor maternal transmission.
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One issue central to an investigation of language processing lies in identifying apotentialmechanism that operates at the level of spoken-word processing and underlies word learning.
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Thus, production of fibrinogen as part of a localised acute phase response provides anotherpotentialmechanismfor disruption of pulmonary surfactant and development of pulmonary fibrosis.
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Recently, researchers uncovered anotherpotentialmechanisminvolving metamizole being a prodrug.
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Synaptic scaling has been proposed as apotentialmechanismof homeostatic plasticity.
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Apotentialmechanismthat averts cancer is an over-crowding gene, p16, which prevents cell division once individual cells come into contact (known as contact inhibition).
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Onepotentialmechanismfor microplastic-induced alteration of pelagic ecosystems is through the introduction of hard-substrate habitat to ecosystems where it is naturally rare.
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The main generation mechanism for metals is thermal expansion, whereas for semiconductors it is often the deformationpotentialmechanism.
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