Law-enforcement officials in 38 U.S. cities, however, have reported decreased availability of cocaine since January 2007.
That suggests other factors may be at work beyond the pace of global growth.One candidate is decreased availability of trade finance.
In the fasting state, the decreased availability of glucose results in predominant metabolism of fatty acids by the myocardium.
They've found that birds that dwell inside a forest fragment often suffer from decreased availability of food, more attacks on their nests from predators, and increased egg parasitism.
This explains the reduced biosorption at higher pH which might be due to the abundance of OH? ions that caused decreased availability of adsorbable components for biosorption.
Exposure to hypobaric hypoxia, a condition involving decreased availability of oxygen is known to be associated with oxidative stress, neurodegeneration and memory impairment.
Therefore, the reduction in extracellular levels in castrates was not due to decreased availability of DA; most likely it was due to decreased release.
The observed decrease in the catalase activity in CsA treated rats is due to the decreased availability of NADPH which is required for catalase activity from its inactive form.
In the latter case other non selective transport proteins such as divalent metal transporter (DMT-1) could show an increase transport of Zn due to decreased availability of Cu (due to it being bound to PrP).
Farmers in many Asian countries are moving from puddled-transplanted rice to dry-seeded rice systems as they respond to increased costs or decreased availability of labor or water.
In the current nursing educational environment, the need for creative teaching methods in the classroom is being driven by increasing student numbers, less than optimum ratio of faculty to students, and decreased availability of clinical sites.
