Sentence examples for decay progression from inspiring English sources

The proportion of lesions with an interrupted or lost black surface that had decay progression was 0.78 (32/41).

In comparison, the proportion of lesions with an uninterrupted black surface that had decay progression was 0.17 (8/47).

The usefulness of the black surface color as a predictor of caries activity was shown by the finding that lesions with an interrupted or lost black surface were 4.6 times more likely to have decay progression.

Also the sensitivity of the approach in the context that an incomplete or absent black surface was a diagnostic aid for decay progression was 80%, whereas the specificity referring to situations where an uninterrupted black surface was present and decay had not progressed was 81%.

Ca2+ sparks exhibited a time-dependent decay with progression of diabetic cardiomyopathy, which may partly contribute to cardiac dysfunction.

The present study showed that Ca2+ sparks decay with progression of diabetes, accompanied by a successive impairment of cardiac function.

However, all these approaches have one crucial aspect in common, i.e. the need for defining a minimum threshold for wood MC that is necessary for the onset of decay and its subsequent progression.

Eukaryotic initiation factor 5A (eIF5A) has been implicated in multiple cellular functions including translation initiation [1] [3], mRNA decay [4], cell cycle progression [5], [6], cell survival [7], [8], retroviral infection [9] and translation elongation [10], [11].

Specifically, localized radiation therapy ―as used clinically for treating cancer― given at the lesion site in transected rat spinal cord within 2 3 weeks postinjury can for the most part halt the onset and progression of decay processes; consequently, some structural and functional repair is facilitated [4] [5], [10].

In addition, research on the progression of wood decay in trees suggests that the origin of wood decay can be in the sapwood, rather than from saprotrophic growth in non-functioning heartwood (Boddy and Rayner 1983; Parfitt et al. 2010).

In the slow progression of normal decay, chaparral litter seems to give up to the soil what have been vaguely described as "waxlike complexes of long-chain aliphatic hydrocarbons".