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Simultaneously, in the 1960s, but independently, various physicists postulated the sliding-filament theory of muscular contraction, according to which muscles contract by the sliding of one filament along another and not by a springlike coiling.

The reading topped expectations of 48.5, which would have signaled a contraction, according to a Reuters poll of economists.

Wall Street is adding jobs and its profits are growing after a period of contraction, according to a report released yesterday by State Comptroller Alan G. Hevesi.

The nation's economy grew slightly in the fourth quarter, a turnaround from an earlier estimate showing contraction, according to the Commerce Department.

The UK will narrowly escape recession in the first half of this year as Europe as a whole stagnates and the eurozone suffers a short-lived, "mild" contraction, according to the latest forecasts from Brussels.

Gross domestic product contracted at an annualized pace of 1.8% in the third quarter, worse than the initially reported 0.4% contraction, according to a government report Tuesday.

They also are less powerful, with power being a measure of the muscle's ability to produce force during contractions, according to Goran Markovic, a professor of kinesiology at the University of Zagreb and the study's senior author.

The set-valued mapping T is called a fuzzy ψ-p-contractive mapping if the following implication takes place: for any x 1, x 2 ∈ X and y 1 ∈ T x 1, there exists y 2 ∈ T x 2 such that P ( x 1, x 2, t ) > 0 ⇒ P ( y 1, y 2, t ) ≥ ψ ( P ( x 1, x 2, t ) ) for each t > 0. In particular, the fuzzy ψ-M-contraction corresponds to the fuzzy ψ-contraction according to [[7], Definition 3.1].

Contractions were identified by eye and classified as whole length (WL) contractions, short length (SL) contractions or stationary contractions, according to published criteria [10].

One inlet was designed with an elliptic profile in the contraction section according to the ISO standard for a long-radius nozzle (ISO inlet).

We apply the different bed form predictors to estimate the suspended sediment concentration distributions based on the 1D advection diffusion equation and the bed-form-enhanced shear stress, which includes the flow contraction effect according to Nielsen [Coast. Eng. 10 (1986) 23].