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Concurrent with habitat loss is the decreasing numbers of wild animals, particularly carnivores, in many countries.
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However, these markets appear to have followed the larger trend towards consolidation, with total market numbers decreasing.
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Transitions that occur while is increasing yield the trans product ; those that occur while is decreasing, the cis product.
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The working time for the pollution reports has decreased since its introduction.
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Changes to public health nursing services may be related to the decreases in population to physician ratios.
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Finally, we also observe that the electron temperature at breakdown decreases as the second ionization coefficient and the cathode increases.
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We also note from (14) that the electron temperature at breakdown decreases as the parameter pd associated with gas pressure and system dimension increases.
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Rapidly decreasing separation between adjacent bifurcation points did not allow the identification of higher periodicities.
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As 2 decreases, the amplitude of the soliton is enhanced.
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If p c, the spectrum shape has a falling form : the first harmonic is maximum, then the amplitude decreases as n increases.
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They found that the amplitude of the dust-acoustic soliton structures decreases significantly with an increase in the dust streaming velocity.
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In opening up the torus, the non-circularity of the cross section is assumed small and decreasing to zero with increasing diameter of the torus.
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As f falls below unity p0 /f 2 increases and 0 f decreases.
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The amplitude of these wave packets is also determined by initial conditions, and decreases with (38b).
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However, for higher-order radial modes it falls off as the overlap of the interacting wave functions decreases.
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The 401(k) share of total pension costs also decreases contributions when we control for the financial condition of the firm.
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The national income decreases because the working time falls and the growth rate is constant at dx1.
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Moreover, because the probability of survival decreases with the age of the annuitant the mortality credit increases with increasing entry age.
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In general, the parent/metabolite ratio decreases with time.
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Given a positive growth rate, emigration remains a possible explanation of a decreasing population.
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Given equivalent retest correlations, the effect size is increased by larger differences in raw scores and decreased by larger variance.
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They find 12-month prevalence of 7 %, decreasing with age, although at follow-up the symptoms are more likely to persist in the older.
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Moreover, these memory errors were consistently decreased by the negative symptoms reflecting lack of emotion or social interactions, although this observation was unexpected.
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A low level of social support emerges as a negative influence as it increases the probability of onset and decreases the probability of recovery.
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The magnitude of this attentional avoidance of depression-related material decreased with age.
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If a referent ceases to be mentioned in the text, however, its local salience is incrementally decreased.
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Taxing capital at a higher rate decreases both gross wage inequality and net inequality.
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As gas pressure increases, tr decreases, which can be explained by the fact that the breakdown field increases with the increase of gas pressure.
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The fixed costs are more important if k increases or/and if decreases.
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Finally, morphological borrowing leads to increased, rather than decreased, allomorphy.
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Activation decreases with the number of words, sentences and paragraphs elapsed as the algorithm proceeds through the text.
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Let us check that this measure decreases during the translation.
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The pairs are then presented to a human in order of decreasing mutual information, not decreasing frequency of occurrence.
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Observed latency can be decreased if a synchronisation signal source could foresee the near future in some way.
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The epicyst increases as the endoplasmic core decreases in size.
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Figure 3 shows that the optimal volatility of inflation decreases when the elasticity of demand increases (the markup decreases).
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The subsequent negative investment flow makes the real income decreasing during the stable adjustment.
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Eventually, as t becomes high enough, another reversal occurs and it starts decreasing - again.
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Since u strictly decreases when y increases, is injective.
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Figure 5 shows that the mass of a solution decreases as increases.
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Access to land is assumed to be fixed, and we hence assume decreasing returns to scale in the production function.
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As a consequence, the water consumption from the lake decreased by 50 per cent.
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Designed to enhance stability and wartime production, the new laws only lowered workers' morale and decreased output.
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Comparing the two cohorts, the average age of retirement decreased by 1.6 years (from 63.8 to 62.2 years-of-age).
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The proportion of older people using public home-help services decreased over the 15 years, particularly among the oldest old.
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As the age of care recipients increases, the proportion of care-giving spouses decreases and the proportion of care-giving children increases.
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Today their number is decreasing as a result of urban development and the modernization of agriculture.
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In the case when design decisions were made probabilistically, the effects of the domain heuristics on the run time completely switched, significantly decreasing run time.
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In other words, as the rate of import increases, the proportion of the obsidian assemblage that is green decreases.
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However, there are size decreases at each site.
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The screening length decreases with ionization and the difference does not exceed 20%.
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The scale length becomes long furthermore, the total beam energy gradually decreases.
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After the second peak, thus, the fast electron beam intensity is rapidly decreased.
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Second, the non-uniformity is strongly decreased in the presence of the gas jet.
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The amplitude of oscillations attains a maximum and then decreases.
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The magnetic field for which the resonance occurs increases with plasma density and decreases with initial electron energy.
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Since the gap capacitance is inversely proportional to the gap distance d, as d decreases, the prepulse increases.
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As pressure increases, tr decreases which can be easily explained by the fact that the breakdown field increases with the increase of pressure.
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Thus, as the temperature increases or decreases in soil, a corresponding change in the mass attributed to each phase (aqueous and gas) will result.
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The ice-free pores will become ice-filled when their temperature decreases appropriately.
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Dieting decreases plasma tryptophan and increases the prolactin response to d-fenfluramine in women but not men.
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Psychological morbidity in bereaved parents decreases to levels similar to those among non-bereaved parents 7- 9 years after the loss.
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However, the price of insurance for consumers has not decreased.
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Eigenvalues for components in decreasing order: 3.422; 2.219; 2.070; 1.013; and .901; these 5 components extracted 63.4% of the variance among the items.
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Eigenvalues for components in decreasing order: 8.029, 4.352, 3.482, 2.113, 1.563, 1.495, 1.281; these 7 components extracted 63.7% of the variance among the items.
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What we do not know is why it decreased more in some countries than in others.
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Since then the buses have become too many and the chance of making money has decreased.
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In the middle picture it can be seen that the fringes almost disappear, appear again, and then the brightness of the fringes decreases once more.
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Wavelengths of observed per turbations increase as the density of gas in the bottom par t of the channel decreases.
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Thus, positive (negative) tilt leads to increased (decreased) radial acceleration [37].
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We see that the positive-ion density decreases in the pulse - the pulse rarefacts the positive ions.
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The range of the unstable spectrum decreases with increasing beam velocity, leading to highly monochromatic radiation.
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In principle, this second section of the brachystochrone can have subsections in which the density is growing and subsections in which it is decreasing.
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If hypotension developed, then the research assistant decreased the other antihypertensive medication(s), titrated to the optimal blood pressure.
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Doses were then decreased by 2 mg every 7 days.
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In the present study, both discovery and parasitism efficiency decreased with increasing egg batch density.
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Indeed, if decreases in grammaticality correlated with increases in error-contingent models, one might call into question its function as a form of corrective input.
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By contrast, when the violation is located at the end of the sentence, its occurrence probability increases and consequently the detection cost decreases.
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Indeed, this value may have decreased to 3.7 ng/g (approx. 60 %) after reclaiming.
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From 1999 to 2000, resistance to erythromycin and virginiamycin decreased significantly from 59.0 and 49.2 % to 45.7 and 18.8 % respectively.
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Telicity decreases in the following examples from (29a) to (29d), correlating with an increase of acceptability of impersonal passives.
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In short, as the frequency decreased, the total number of different responses increased.
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The water level (decreased/was decreased) gradually. 12.
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Whilst the dependency burden from unmarried children decreased with parental age, surrogate parenthood of grandchildren showed no appreciable decline with age.
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To deliver effective health policy and promotion for this age group, it is important to understand the factors that lead to decreasing activity with age.
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Diamond (1985) reported the effect of systematically increasing or decreasing the delay within a session.
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We observe that the concentration of pure mutant virions decreases much faster than that of mixed virions with mutant genomes.
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Unfortunately the luciferase expression levels decreased as fast as the muscle damage, and no therapeutic window could be found with these settings.
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The number of party pamphlets directed specifically at the women in the movement decreased significantly from a high point in the immediate post-suffrage years.
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We also find that the burden decreases as the percentage of non-delivered mail increases.
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Route time cost, which is a fixed cost and the largest component of street delivery costs, decreases with a rise in volume.
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Rationalizing street delivery cost by decreasing the quality of delivery service can have a profound impact on the postal density and consequently, on delivery cost.
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The competence sets the bottom line of gentility, increasing and decreasing with the pretensions of its possessor to rank and status.
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The composition resembles that of the underlying sandstone, but with decreasing grain size, quartz becomes less dominant.
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There is a reduction in the volume and viscosity of seminal fluid and the ejaculatory force decreases.
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Between 1960 and 1980 the average working time increased and then decreased again.
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The number of females with whom the male frequently interacts decreases with the size of the group.
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In our study, it was also observed that the number of platelets decreased after endotoxin administration, whilst ibuprofen had no effect.
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Raising the cutpoint to 10 ng/ml decreased the sensitivity to 38% while specificity increased to 84%.
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