The phrase "a minimal contraction" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing language, grammar, or phonetics, particularly when referring to a shortened form of a word or phrase that retains its meaning.
Example: "In spoken English, 'I'm' is a minimal contraction of 'I am' that makes speech more fluid."
Alternatives: "a slight contraction" or "a brief contraction".
An input distance function is looking at a minimal proportional contraction of the input vector, given an output vector.
"Deqi" is the specific sensation of verum acupuncture, involving heaviness, numbness, soreness and a minimal muscular contraction around the needle [15].
Skin substitutes are of great benefit in the treatment of patients with full thickness wounds, but there is a need for improvement with respect to wound closure with minimal contraction, early vascularisation, and elastin formation.
The sub-muscle units were electrically stimulated and found to have independent isometric contraction, with minimal contraction recorded from the non-stimulated sub-unit.
All physiological experiments were performed on whole animals, with simple procedures, and enabled us to follow most of the responses reported in previous studies, except for velar minimal contraction and ciliary arrest, which were not studied ([21]).
The frequency, area under the pressure curve (AUC) and motility index of contractions during capsule residence in the stomach were evaluated using both 10 mmHg and 20 mmHg above baseline as the minimal contraction threshold.
However, although porcine skin offers a closer anatomical comparison to human skin than loose-skinned rodents, and heals primarily through re-epithelialisation with minimal contraction, the cost involved in the breeding and maintenance of pigs poses a formidable barrier to research, as does their poor genetic tractability.
We present algorithms for computing minimal and preference-protecting minimal contractions for finite as well as finitely representable preference relations.
While other 5-HT receptors are expressed in the aorta, they play a minimal role in contraction, and we have made the assumption that they would also play a minimal role in serotonylation.
Through the careful construction of this anatomically based torso, control for respiration becomes the generation of periodic contraction signals for a minimal set of two muscle groups.
