Sentence examples for by a stepwise reduction from inspiring English sources

filling the bed with particles at a low orifice velocity followed by a stepwise increase of the orifice velocity, or filling the bed at a high orifice velocity followed by a stepwise reduction of the orifice velocity.

PEEP titration was started at a PEEP of 10 mbar (two pigs in the SP group clinically required a minimal PEEP of 15 mbar at this time point but were still included in the study) with a stepwise increase of 5 mbar until a plateau PEEP of 30 mbar followed by a stepwise reduction of the PEEP to a minimum of 5 mbar (0 mbar when tolerated).

This maneuver is followed by a stepwise reduction of the CDP (2 mbar every 30 minutes up to 4 hours) to maintain alveolar patency.

The method proceeds by a stepwise reduction in the number of complexes, defined as the left and right-hand sides of the reactions in the network.

Briefly, a decremental PEEP trial was performed immediately after the RM by a stepwise reduction of PEEP from 20 cmH2O in one minute-steps of 2 cmH2O until Xrs reached its maximum and started to decrease.

The lowest possible dose of ICS that maintained asthma control in each patient was determined by a stepwise reduction protocol at baseline and after 1, 2 and 3 years of treatment (September December). Asthma control was defined as 'the ICS dose one step higher than when patients had uncontrolled symptomatic asthma'.

A first approach to investigate such effects may be to compare the level of specialization after a stepwise reduction of the matrix by pooling species to higher taxonomic units, such as genera, families, and orders.

There is no indication of a stepwise reduction in harm as would be supposed by the current A, B, C classification and no clear delineation of scores to allow logical cut-off points for such a categorisation.

Transition metals can also convert HNO2 directly to hydrogenated products (NH3OH+, NH4+) at lower potentials, while coinage metals (Ag, Au, Cu) feature a stepwise reduction to NO and N2O, which can be both detected by on-line mass spectrometry.

A stepwise reduction and fixation of the joint block was performed with the locked angle 2.2-mm miniscrews until the initial K-wire was exchanged for another miniscrew.

Beginning in 1955, the creation of poliovirus vaccines led to a stepwise reduction in poliomyelitis, culminating in the unpredicted elimination of wild polioviruses in the United States by 1972.