The theme of decline runs through our history like a relentless refrain, which is not based on a fear of change, since change has in fact been considerably accelerated by the West, but on a fear of the fall.
The nature of "the modern" in the context of Arabic literary history involves twin processes: first, renewed contacts with the Western world, something that was considerably accelerated by European imperial incursions during the 19th century, and, second, a renewed interest in the classical heritage of the Arabic language and Islam.
Adjustments to posture and gait can be considerably accelerated (or even triggered involuntarily) by loud auditory stimuli of the type that may also elicit a startle reflex (MacKinnon et al., 2007; Reynolds and Day, 2007; Queralt et al., 2008).
By deriving inspection task-specific user guidelines, the predominantly manual thermographic testing process can be considerably accelerated.
Indeed, for some learning methods, such as regularized least-squares (RLS), the search process can be considerably accelerated with computational short-cuts for scoring function evaluation [ 23].
The onset of the ER/PR-negative human breast cell tumors in mice was considerably accelerated, and the growth significantly stimulated, by just one or two applications of 5αP.
This deactivation is considerably accelerated in the presence of water.
This process was considerably accelerated further when both C646 and SC79, an Akt agonist, were added together to wounded hTECs.
This increase in levels has consequences for development as the rate of early development is considerably accelerated in overexpressing cells (Figure 7A,B).
The development of mammary tumours in conditional BRCA1 and BRCA2 knockout mice was considerably accelerated in a Trp53 knockout background (Evers and Jonkers, 2006).
