Sentence examples for contributed to decreasing from inspiring English sources

The researchers, reporting in Nature, found that the body size of the specimen was well below the mean for the species, indicating that the same factors thought to have killed off the animal during the ice age -- notably a lack of food -- probably contributed to decreasing body size.

The structural transition to a service economy has clearly contributed to decreasing direct (or territorial) greenhouse gas emissions.

The campaign may have contributed to decreasing inequality when the Western and Eastern regions are compared at the macro-level (Mao 2011).

In other words, high depression symptoms, high migraine disability, female gender, a long duration of headache, and CM all contributed to decreasing QOL.

Contracts have contributed to decreasing inter-village inequality, not only because poorer villages were more likely to adopt a contract, but also because they benefited more from contract adoption than richer ones.

Probably, sophisticated safety management systems and a high level safety culture have contributed to decreasing the number of usual accidents, but these classical approaches may not have been sufficient to prevent the occurrence of extraordinary incidents and accidents.

There is possibility that the system contributed to decrease UHD.

Objective: To examine which phases of the gait cycle contributed to decreased gait velocity after stroke.

Both amorphous and semicrystalline fines contributed to decrease the porosity, improve the strength and microstructure.

In addition, the reduced EC of the OMF compost (3.08 3.22 dS m−1; Table 1) contributed to decrease the soil ECe.

The triboreactions formed silicon and aluminum hydroxides which contributed to decrease roughness and shear stress at the contact interface.