Decreased freshwater productivity, and correspondingly diminished carrying capacities, may represent important limiting factors in what often appears to be otherwise near-pristine habitat.
He is skeptical of his publisher's suggestion that he finish the book with a collaborator, and he says he has finally surrendered to the conclusion that his body is too feeble and his mind too diminished to carry on with the project.
To diminish possible carry over effects between intervals due to VO2 latency, the first minute of each interval (#1- 15) was excluded from the later mean bias analysis of each activity and intervals of 2 minutes and less (interval #3 and #5) were regarded non-conclusive results.
Diminished educational opportunities carry lifelong implications.
In an editorial published just before the sequester went into effect, the New York Times identified the Coast Guard's diminished capacity to carry out drug-interdiction missions as one of the budget cuts' many supposedly grim consequences.
Most women diagnosed with breast cancer go on to have a normal life expectancy but those who develop pain after treatment for breast cancer experience diminished ability to carry out active daily living (ADL) tasks, reduced health-related Quality Of Life (QOL), and psychosocial distress [ 3].
The new chip design, Whittington said, "instantly diminishes the carrying value of existing production" and could lead to more aggressive pricing by Intel in the first half of 2006.
Interpreted in terms of the socioemotional selectivity theory, a diminished carry-over effect of negative stimuli for older adults could be the outcome of a motivational goal toward optimising emotional experiences as the limits of life approach, a relative favoring of positive information in attention and memory with age.
An increase in complexity, tight specialisms and "referring cases on" has in many instances diminished the opportunity to carry out long-term social work.
These include obesity, a component of the 'metabolic syndrome', 7 and reduced bone mineralisation that can result in frank osteoporosis 8; both disorders contribute to diminished physical activity and carrying the burden of morbidity and mortality.
By using a more direct approach, it was shown thatlongevity was diminished in golden hamsters carrying a 20 h-period mutation, tau, raised in 24 h light-dark cycles [ 19].
