The advent of cheaper Mexican cochineal led to an abrupt slump in the Polish cochineal trade, and the 1540s saw a steep decline in quantities of the red dye exported from Poland.
Monks are suffering a decline in "quantity and quality," he said, partly because young people are drawn to the riches and fast-paced life of the cities.
Therefore, an increase in quality is more expensive and will result in a decline in quantity demand.
Although activity is expected to pick up in the near future, the changes led to reduced production of value added wood products and a decline in overall quantities of wood products exported.
That, in turn, has led to a decline in the quantity of oil imports (though not necessarily or consistently in the value of imports, given the volatility in oil prices).
There were, however, large shifts in microbial community composition in the Tree-Removal treatment relative to other treatments (Table 2), with a decline in the quantity of fungal PLFA markers, a marginally significant increase in bacterial PLFA markers and a shift towards increasing bacterial dominance.
The second channel implies that the decline in quantity of children, accompanied with the increase of quality of them, arises from the supply-side changes rather than from men's demand shift from quantity of children to quality of them.
The tribe also noticed a decline in the quantity and diversity of fish.
There has been a decline in the quantity and quality of the medical admission note examination records in this tertiary care centre between 1975 and 2011, which implies a decline in the examination skills of local junior doctors.
Ovarian ageing, dictated by a decline in the quantity and quality of oocytes within the ovaries, 3 4 is responsible for the well-established observation of age-related decline in fertility 5 8 and of age-related increase in adverse reproductive events such as miscarriages 9 10 and aneuploid pregnancies.
And as they get older, men also see a decline in the quantity and genetic quality of sperm.
