In this story about the limits of art and artifice, declining to improve on life, and death, is a way of showing one's respect for them.
Instead of polishing the vocals, picking the best sections from several recordings, she often declined to improve the original guide track, full of errant notes and raw inconsistencies.
This relies on the world's best standing still for two years waiting for Arsenal to catch up - and Rodgers should not expect Liverpool's Premier League rivals to hang around declining to improve their squads while he bolsters his.
Historians attribute the decline to improving social controls over violence -- police forces and common access to courts of law -- and to a shift away from brutal physical punishment in child-rearing (a practice that still appears as a common factor in the background of violent criminals today).
The ability of memantine to decrease symptomatic decline and to improve functioning in patients with moderately severe-to-severe AD was originally demonstrated in two pivotal phase III trials [ 16, 17] and has subsequently been confirmed in other studies.
For example, in the area of ADLs, two multiple-characteristic functional forms were available: (1) as an improvement indicator: the person either improved or remained independent in ADLs; or (2) as a decline indicator: the person either declined; or, failed to improve.
Theses authors demonstrated that the consumption of an extract rich in catechins rather than EGCG protected the rat hippocampal formation from aging-related declines contributing to improving the redox status and preventing the structural damage observed in old animals, with repercussions on behavioral performance [ 82].
One fund manager said he expected the recent decline in sales to improve by the fourth quarter of this year, in part because Kmart has brought in new kinds of apparel and made deals, like one with the WB Network regarding its fall television lineup, to promote its products.
The importance of honey bee populations to natural and agro-ecological systems, coupled to their current decline obligates us to improve the status quo.
Educational resources exist to identify and address issues related to overall health status such as frailty and functional decline in order to improve outcomes [ 27, 28].
