ABA exists in all parts of the plant and its concentration within any tissue seems to mediate its effects and function as a hormone ; its degradation, or more properly catabolism, within the plant affects metabolic reactions and cellular growth and production of other hormones.

These bumpers contained a stabiliser to prevent UV degradation which made them unsuitable for painting because the paint would not adhere properly.

Fault-tolerance or graceful degradation is the property that enables a system ( often computer-based ) to continue operating properly in the event of the failure of ( or one or more faults within ) some of its components.

… the Jews, generally speaking, recognise the degradation and disintegration of the peoples under Christian culture, and by its direction or otherwise, have hopes of ruling over such peoples … and because Jews try to hasten the process by using the many powers in their control.

Lyrical themes included animal rights, politics, religion, drug abuse, disease, and environmental degradation ; these themes were often lyrically and conceptually intertwined.

The book included a page with statistics on world glacier melt rates, paralleling the art's themes of environmental degradation.

Technical issues overcome included yellowing, odor, and the tendency of some agents to accelerate the degradation of fabrics by bleaches.

There is a class of mechanisms referred to as REDD schemes ( Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation ), which may be included in a post-Kyoto agreement.

Research topics have included low crop and animal productivity, and environmental degradation, water management, fragile lands, property rights, collective action, sustainable intensification of agricultural production, the impact of climate change on poor farmers, the problems and opportunities of biotechnology, food security, micronutrient malnutrition, microfinance programs, urban food security, and resource allocation within households.

Note that only the step of substrate unfolding requires energy from ATP hydrolysis, while ATP-binding alone can support all the other steps required for protein degradation ( e. g., complex assembly, gate opening, translocation, and proteolysis ).

The United Methodist Church teaches that pornography is " about violence, degradation, exploitation, and coercion " and " deplore all forms of commercialization, abuse, and exploitation of sex.

The microsatellites in use today for forensic analysis are all tetra-or penta-nucleotide repeats ( 4 or 5 repeated nucleotides ), as these give a high degree of error-free data while being robust enough to survive degradation in non-ideal conditions.

Stochocracy aims to be at least reduce this degradation by having all representatives appointed by lottery instead of by voting.

For example, the 19th century Lowell Mill Girls, who, without any reported knowledge of European marxism or anarchism, condemned the " degradation and subordination " of the newly emerging industrial system, and the " new spirit of the age: gain wealth, forgetting all but self ", maintaining that " those who work in the mills should own them.

According to a report by the United Nations ' Food and Agriculture Organisation, land degradation has been exacerbated where there has been an absence of any land use planning, or of its orderly execution, or the existence of financial or legal incentives that have led to the wrong land use decisions, or one-sided central planning leading to over-utilization of the land resources-for instance for immediate production at all costs.

His conversion of diosgenin into progesterone by a four-step process now known as Marker degradation was an important step in mass production of all steroidal hormones, including cortisone and chemicals used in hormonal contraception.

British missionary William Ward criticized the worship of the lingam ( along with virtually all other Indian religious rituals ) in his influential 1815 book A View of the History, Literature, and Mythology of the Hindoos, calling it " the last state of degradation to which human nature can be driven ", and stating that its symbolism was " too gross, even when refined as much as possible, to meet the public eye.

desertification resulting from the degradation of limited arable land, periods of drought, and dust storms ; coastal degradation ( damage to coastlines, coral reefs, and sea vegetation ) resulting from oil spills and other discharges from large tankers, oil refineries, and distribution stations ; lack of freshwater resources ( groundwater and seawater are the only sources for all water needs )

These invasions often include deforestation, disruption of ecological life systems and various forms of pollution, all of which contribute to environmental degradation.

Graceful degradation attempts to provide the same or similar functionality to all users and platforms, while diminishing that functionality to a ‘ least common denominator ’ for more limited client browsers.

Peatlands form only 3 % of all the world ’ s land area, however, their degradation equals 7 % of all fossil fuel CO < sub > 2 </ sub > emissions.

Atmospheric moisture ; solar wind ; physical obstructions, such as mountains and buildings ; and time of day all affect the signal transmission and the degradation of signal reception.

Bentley's refusal to submit to this decree led to further proceedings, and to his degradation from all his degrees by a grace of the senate on 18 October.

" Based on its most recent analysis, the Company now believes that, if the degradation of the S-band antenna amplifiers continues at the current rate or further accelerates, and if the Company is unsuccessful in developing additional technical solutions, the quality of two-way communications services will decline, and by some time in 2008 substantially all of the Company ’ s currently in-orbit satellites will cease to be able to support two-way communications services.

Cox told the New Musical Express: " We wanted to make the film not just about Sid Vicious and punk rock, but as an anti-drugs statement, to show the degradation caused to various people is not at all glamorous.

It affects all races, as thalassemias protected these people from malaria due to the blood cells ' easy degradation.

The Doctor reflects that Grover's motivations in wanting to fight pollution and environmental degradation were honourable, but that he took the scheme too far in endangering all of mankind and all of its civilisations.

Thus the one advantage analog seems to have in this respect is that an analog recording may be " usable " even after the media it is stored on has suffered severe deterioration whereas it has been noticed that even slight media degradation in digital recordings may cause them to suffer from an " all or nothing " failure, i. e. the digital recording will end up being totally un-playable without very expensive restoration work.

Destruction, alteration, and degradation of wetland habitats constitute the most significant threats to the Wattled Crane, perhaps one of the most habitat sensitive of all cranes.

Plant litter and other biomass accumulates as organic matter in soils, and is degraded by chemical weathering and biological degradation.

On the one and the same account they glorify them and they degrade and diminish them ; yes, further, they openly condemn them to disgrace and civil degradation ; they keep them religiously excluded from council chamber, rostrum, senate, knighthood, and every other kind of office and a good many distinctions.

The other major final product of heme degradation is bilirubin.

In practice, the heating required to remove trace water from the books before reaction ( DEZ reacts violently with water ) caused an accelerated degradation of the paper, and a range of other chemical reactions between DEZ and other components of the book ( glues, bindings ) caused further damage and the production of unpleasant smells.

The concept behind this method is simple: broken windows, graffiti, and other physical destruction or degradation of property, greatly increases the chances of more criminal activities and destruction of property.

Hsp70, on the other hand, binds exposed hydrophobic patches on the surface of misfolded proteins and recruits E3 ubiquitin ligases such as CHIP to tag the proteins for proteasomal degradation.

The degradation of old film stock can be slowed through proper archiving, or films can be transferred to CD-ROM or other digital media for preservation.

Biodegradation or biotic degradation or biotic decomposition is the chemical dissolution of materials by bacteria or other biological means.

Specifically, critics argue that the costs and energy used in collection and transportation detract from ( and outweigh ) the costs and energy saved in the production process ; also that the jobs produced by the recycling industry can be a poor trade for the jobs lost in logging, mining, and other industries associated with virgin production ; and that materials such as paper pulp can only be recycled a few times before material degradation prevents further recycling.

As a result, estuaries are suffering degradation by many factors, including sedimentation from soil erosion from deforestation, overgrazing, and other poor farming practices ; overfishing ; drainage and filling of wetlands ; eutrophication due to excessive nutrients from sewage and animal wastes ; pollutants including heavy metals, polychlorinated biphenyls, radionuclides and hydrocarbons from sewage inputs ; and diking or damming for flood control or water diversion.

The UN Millennium Ecosystem Assessment determined that environmental degradation is more prominent within wetland systems than any other ecosystem on Earth.

Because the milk was not being encapsulated and because spray drying causes thermal degradation, milk dehydration and similar processes have been replaced by other dehydration techniques.

Corrosion can also occur in materials other than metals, such as ceramics or polymers, although in this context, the term degradation is more common.

The first capability is notable because at the time of Opteron's introduction, the only other 64-bit architecture marketed with 32-bit x86 compatibility ( Intel's Itanium ) ran x86 legacy-applications only with significant speed degradation.

Likewise, other ecological economists such as Herman Daly recognize the inherent conflict between consumer-driven consumption and planet-wide ecological degradation.

Making modern film or digital copies of Autochromes introduces other problems, because a color system based on red, green and blue is being used to copy an image which exists in a red-orange, green and blue-violet system, providing further opportunities for color degradation.

Hindu traditional prophecies, as described in the Puranas and several other texts, say that the world shall fall into chaos and degradation.

A skeleton left on a mountain will dehydrate and become protected from bacterial degradation and the Bearded Vulture can return to consume the remainder of a carcass even months after the soft parts have been consumed by other animals, larvae and bacteria.

Rancidification, also commonly known as rancidity, is the chemical decomposition of fats, oils and other lipids ( this degradation also occurs in mechanical cutting fluids ).