Sentence examples for contraction less than from inspiring English sources
Also, serial determinations of cardiac troponin I show a negative correlation between serum concentrations of cardiac troponin I and myocardial function (echocardiography fractional area contraction less than 50%) [ 41].
Almost all of the altered alleles in an ade2 -h7.5 rad27 Δ strain exhibit tract expansions or contractions; less than 1% of minisatellite tracts examined by PCR were similar in size to the parental ade2 -h7.5 allele.
Compounds that reduced contraction to less than 0.6 at 1 μ M also reduced contraction at 10 μ M but that the converse was not necessarily true.
He confirms that policy makers in many places were working with the assumption of a multiplier on fiscal contraction much less than 1, whereas experience now suggests that it's actually more than 1.
In 1977, A.J.B. Potter introduced the definition of an α-convex operator and showed that for α ≥ 0, decreasing -convex mappings have contraction ratios less than or equal to α and gave the existence of solutions to the nonlinear eigenvalue problem A x = λ x.
To reduce noise in quantitative assessment, expansion was defined as the presence of more than twice the median number of proteins for a cluster in a given species, contraction as less than half the median number of proteins.
In a recent study by Charpentier and colleagues [ 5], systolic myocardial dysfunction (as defined by a fractional area contraction of less than 50% on echocardiography) was present in 44% of a cohort of patients with severe sepsis or septic shock, on the second day of their stay in the ICU.
The second point is that the shape of the length-tension relation relative to sarcomere length has shifted, such that optimal length (peak of the length-tension relation) for potentiated contractions is less than optimal length for nonpotentiated contractions.
In these works it was required that the costs of duplications and contractions be less than the costs of all other operations (the requirement was implicit in [ 9], see discussion in Section "A comparison with previous works").
It should be emphasized, however, that these women were essentially in labour as all experienced painful uterine contractions in less than 5 min intervals had dilatation or effacement of the cervix and/or ruptured membranes.
