The phrase "and substantial decrease in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a significant reduction in a particular quantity or measure, often in contexts such as economics, health, or environmental studies.
Example: "The new policy resulted in a substantial decrease in carbon emissions over the past year."
Alternatives: "and significant reduction in" or "and considerable decline in".
Insertion of an ultrathin layer of poly methylmethacrylate) (PMMA) between the bottom electrode and the PEDOT PSS resulted in a systematic and substantial decrease in turn-on voltage, from 7.0 V to less than 1.0 V.
Most of our CaM mutants demonstrated small increase in affinity for the CaMKII peptide and substantial decrease in affinity for the CaN peptide compared to that of wild-type CaM.
Test results show that the use of fly ash resulted in significant improvement in compressive strength and substantial decrease in water absorption and capillary pores for blended cement mortars compared to OPC mortar.
The adopted soil washing technique resulted increase in specific gravity from 1.85 to 2.13 and cohesion from 0.443 to 1.04 kg/cm2 and substantial decrease in the friction angle from 31.16° to 17.14° when washed with most efficient combination of SDS surfactant along with sodium meta-silicate (salt) and MWCNT.
Simultaneously, the increase in the pH of the alkaline solution led to the slight increase in Brønsted acid sites and substantial decrease in the micropore volume more than 50%, in comparison with the parent material while the volume of mesopores increased significantly.
Moreover, despite the rise in sheep and goat numbers, there is a clear and substantial decrease in the number of farms over the same time period from 1981 to 2000, with sheep (-41.8% to 128,551 farms) and goats (-60.6% to 138,251 farms); therefore, uneven grazing patterns are further amplified.
The speed and relative urban growth in Jing-Jin-Ji was highest, followed by the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta, resulting in a continuously fragmented landscape and substantial decreases in ecosystem service values of approximately 18.5 billion CNY with coastal wetlands and agriculture being the largest contributors.
However, effective porosity estimated by inverse modeling may not be optimal despite reasonable spatial patterns and substantial decreases in the sum-of-squared error.
Among continuous users, there were notable increases in the mean consumption of vitamin D (33.8%), magnesium (18.1%) and calcium (17.0%), and substantial decreases in vitamin A (31.9%) and beta-carotene (21.1%).
We observed an increase in the use of lipid-lowering drug treatments (from 12% to 34%) and antihypertensive drug treatments (from 48%to69%9%) and substantial decreases in mean HbA1c, TC/HDL ratio, and systolic blood pressure values between 1998 and 2003 (Table 1).
Patients with low back pain and sciatica report fear of movement and substantial decreases in activity levels [ 39], and recently, patients with lumbar spinal stenosis reported significantly lower activity levels than both control subjects and patients with either knee or hip osteoarthritis [ 40].
