Sentence examples for a recent reduction of from inspiring English sources

All this was against a background of a recent reduction of cases of meningitis B, from just under 1,700 in 2001 to just over 600 in 2012, in the absence of a vaccination programme.

If nothing else, the web series is timely; while Wapato's emptiness reflects a recent reduction of jail and prison populations in some states, the rate of incarceration remains a recalcitrant national issue.

Our ungulate carcase survey results from survey period T3 suggest a recent reduction of the expected rate of decline to less than half of the rate before the ban on diclofenac use.

Inferences about historical demographics are based on the prediction that populations that have experienced a recent reduction of their effective size see their expected heterozygosity estimated from allele frequencies reduce faster than that estimated under a given mutation model at mutation-drift equilibrium; the contrary is expected for growing populations [28].

To assess whether populations had experienced a recent reduction of their effective population size, we used the heterozygosity excess test of Cornuet and Luikart (1996).

This program is based on the assumption that populations, which have experienced a recent reduction of their effective population size, exhibit both a reduction of the allelic diversity and heterozygosity, although the allele numbers are reduced faster than the heterozygosity.

Although the exact pattern differs among species, all mammalian genomes with adequate data exhibit the hallmarks of a recent reduction in the accumulation of such pseudogenes either a pronounced intermediate bulge or a recent shoulder in the age distribution (fig. 3).

However, a recent reduction in the level of scientific production, the lagging behind in international scientific collaboration (highly correlated with the relative citation impact) and the great heterogeneity of researchers' productivity (absence of correlation of number of researchers with quality and quantity of scientific production) may mark the start of a decline of Italian science.

What's more, despite a recent reduction in the amount of oil and refined products stolen by organized crime groups, local communities and Pemex staff, January 2016 saw 414 thousand barrels of product siphoned off for illicit purposes.

Although most sequences were from dicots, no ortholog was found in A. thaliana, which may be explained by gene loss due to a relatively recent reduction of the genome size [ 53].

In Same district there was evidence of a recent reduction in transmission, with SCR among those born since 1998 [MSP-119 0.002 to 0.008 and AMA-1 0.005 to 0.014 ] being 5 to 10 fold lower than among individuals born prior to 1998 [MSP-119 0.02 to 0.04 and AMA-1 0.04 to 0.13].