Sentence examples for changes and deterioration from inspiring English sources

This paper aims to predict the potential roof collapse of deep tunnels subjected to water table level changes and deterioration of rock overlying the tunnel crown.

Unfortunately, Li-rich layered oxides are susceptible to phase changes and deterioration of the structural integrity during processing; this deterioration results from the reaction of carbon with oxygen (at over 400 °C) and the consequent loss of oxygen from the structure of the oxides [28, 29].

Carbon/Li-rich oxide composites (prepared via a heat-treatment process) are, in general, susceptible to phase changes and deterioration of the phase integrity; this deterioration results from the reaction of carbon with oxygen and consequent loss of oxygen from the structure of the vulnerable Li-rich oxide phase.

An additional scale used for global assessment of health by patients and investigators comprised six categories, i.e. complete recovery, noticeable, moderate or slight improvement, no changes, and deterioration [ 20].

Several possible explanations exist: increased/altered genital infections, increased maternal stress during pregnancy, changed dietary intake, increased occurrence of chronic maternal disease during pregnancy, altered clinical management and changes and deterioration in antenatal care.

The macroscopic changes were monitored by permeability measurement and mechanical strength tests coupled with a microscopic characterization by ATR-FTIR (to identify the chemical functional groups affected by ageing) and SEM (to visualize qualitatively the surface changes and deteriorations).

His analysis of the mixed constitution, which had enabled Rome to avoid the cycle of change and deterioration to which simple constitutional forms were liable, is full of problems, but it has exercised widespread influence, from Cicero's De republica down to Machiavelli and Montesquieu.

The mechanisms of change and deterioration to chronic state may be as difficult to assess retrospectively as the initial cause of lower back pain [ 2].

Through a four million US dollar contribution made by Japan in early 2009, UNICEF and partners are providing Somali communities with essential services - in the areas of Health, Education, and Water and Sanitation - to help them counter the combined effects of soaring food prices, drought exacerbated by climate change, and deterioration of livelihoods.

Excessive deflections under service loads may be indicative of structural changes, damage and deterioration.

It is unusual that continuous outcomes are converted to numbers of individual responders to treatment (i.e., those who reach a particular threshold of change); and deteriorations prevented are only rarely considered.