Sentence examples for a seasonal decrease in from inspiring English sources
By decreasing the risk for infection with a virulent clone, expansion of a nonvirulent clone in carriage toward the end of the meningitis season may be 1 of the mechanisms causing a seasonal decrease in the incidence of meningococcal disease.
This pattern contrasts with that seen in spectral tarsiers (Tarsius spectrum), in which a seasonal decrease in food abundance leads to decreased cohesion between family members and increased territorial disputes [Gursky, 2000].
Unlike the situation in rats and mice, there is a "leptin paradox (Morgan et al., 2006)"; that is, the seasonal decrease in leptin production is not perceived as a 'starvation' signal: it does not trigger a compensatory response, rather it is associated with decreased appetite.
A significant increase in daily feed intake (P < 0.05) was observed to coincide with seasonal decrease in air temperature.
This work suggests that long and sunny days could explain part of the seasonal decrease in milk Ca content in summer and refutes the hypothesis that low milk Ca contents at grazing could be due to the high DCAD of herbage.
The aim of this study was to identify the reasons for this seasonal decrease in milk Ca content by testing the effect of 2 levels of dietary cation-anion differences (DCAD; 0 mEq/kg of dry matter for DCAD 0 and 400 mEq/kg for DCAD 400) and 2 day lengths (8 h of light/d for short days: SD; and 16 h/d for long days: LD) on the Ca balances of dairy cows.
In the other aviary we experimentally accelerated the seasonal decrease in photoperiod by decreasing the daylength by 8 min each day (experimental photoperiod, hereafter 'EP' group).
Samsung's "seasonal" decreases in sales of semiconductor chips and TVs were more than offset by its performance its IT & Mobile Communications division, which includes its mobile phones business.
In the array, CRYM showed significant seasonal decreases in both AC vs. SC and AE vs. SE (Table 1).
82 Over 90% of people have some mood reduction during sporadically overcast weather or seasonal decreases in daylight length or intensity.
On a seasonal basis, a decrease in soluble P during the growing season is often observed in calcareous soils, followed by an increase in the noncropping season [63].
