The phrase "a smooth decrease of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a gradual reduction in quantity, intensity, or quality over time.
Example: "The data showed a smooth decrease of temperature throughout the night."
Alternatives: "a gradual decline in" or "a steady reduction of".
The X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) spectra demonstrate a smooth decrease of Mn valence with in-situ reduction, confirmed by a monotonous increase in Mn–O distance from extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS).
There was a smooth decrease of the PCT over the days and the difference was statistically significant (P = 0.05).
Note that upper bounds for credibility intervals around estimated values are not given (this is indicated by a question mark) since they critically depended on an assumed prior for Tmax (as a result of a smooth decrease of proba(T|data) after the mode of T; see Additional file 4c,d).
Our results show that PEG brush height follows a smooth decrease as a function of increasing temperature commencing near room temperature.
The risk of lung cancer was highly related to the city center (p = 0.0243), with an excess relative risk at zero distance of 2.2 and a smooth decrease moving away from the source (-0.015), and related to the incinerator (p = 0.0098), with an excess relative risk of 6.7 in the source and a very steep decrease (-0.176).
This test suggests keeping the factors up to the point where the smooth decrease of eigenvalues appears to level off to the right of a simple line plot.
Moreover, an inspection of the log likelihood values indicated a sharp decrease from the 2-class solution to the 3-class and a very smooth decrease thereafter.
The ABH is a geometric taper with a power-law profile fully integrated into the structural component and able to induce a smooth and progressive decrease of both the velocity and the wavelength of flexural waves.
Implementation of some of the reactions resulted in a smooth monotonic decrease in 1,2,4-TCB uptake with increasing biomass produced.
The additional advantage was control; by varying the control valves from a central point, a smooth increase or decrease of light could be effected, and at variable speeds.
At the cellular level these patients show a proliferation of smooth and a decrease of rough endoplasmic reticulum [61], altered mitochondria [61,63] as well as hypermethylation of leukocyte DNA [61 63].
