In soil and water, photodegradation is again predominant mechanism if there is enough presence of sunlight.

This form of plasticity that occurs during development is the result of three predominant mechanisms: synaptic and homeostatic plasticity, and learning.

In some cases, DNA repair inhibition is proposed to be a predominant mechanism in heavy metal-induced carcinogenicity.

As of 2005, this is the predominant mechanism for experimentalists to create single photons (also known as Fock states).

A knowledge engineering approach is the predominant mechanism for method enhancement and new method development.

Some drugs have a predominant mechanism of action at certain doses, and another mechanism of action becomes predominant at higher doses.

Thus, utilization of the Neo cryptic site appears to provide the predominant mechanism by which the U3Neo gene is expressed following insertion into introns.

The predominant mechanism of bone resorption in a periapical lesion, as in the rest of the body, is the performed by osteoclasts.

Whereas noncovalent interactions appear to be the predominant mechanism for oligonucleotide attachment, covalent linkage is likely to have an important supplementary role in UV-irradiated microarrays.

Joule Heating is a predominant mechanism for heat generation in integrated circuits and is an undesired effect in most of the cases.