Despite large interindividual variation in peripheral B-cell numbers, studies have uniformly reported a numerical decline of total CD19+ B cells with age (Ademokun et al., 2010; Kogut et al., 2012).
Its numerical decline in Khurasan meant that the Khurasan-born Arabs could no longer be completely controlled by force; this opened the way for the appointment of a native Khurasani Arab governor, Nasr ibn Sayyar, to succeed Asad, and, eventually, for the outbreak of the Abbasid Revolution that toppled the Umayyad regime.
The current aggressively-acquisitive propensity of today's giant corporations is also a factor in the ongoing numerical decline of companies (The Economist, 2016; Wooldridge, 2016).
Harry Watson Edinburgh Bishop Richard Harries (Letters, 11 October) cannot be allowed to get away with his reference to a "dramatic decline in membership of political parties" in an attempt to understand the numerical decline of the Church of England.
Under this definition, whites are indeed in numerical decline.
Jing, Y., Shaheen, E., Drake, R.R., Chen, N., Gravenstein, S. & Deng, Y. Aging is associated with a numerical and functional decline in plasmacytoid dendritic cells, whereas myeloid dendritic cells are relatively unaltered in human peripheral blood.
The Methodist Church has shared in the numerical decline that has plagued English churches since about 1910.
However, Benedict XVI seemed reasonably untroubled by this numerical decline, envisioning a smaller, but more faithful, Church.
Indeed, evangelicals' numerical decline has produced a leaner, and perhaps meaner, church.
On the other hand, the discordance in CD8+ T‐cell numerical decline, along with expression of memory and exhaustion markers by these cells, between aged and Lmna Dhe mice suggests shifts in these immune components play less pivotal roles promoting influenza susceptibility.
