Loneliness seems to be strongly related to a broad range of negative emotional and cognitive states such as depression and anxiety [ 26], and it has been suggested that loneliness and depression may act synergistically to diminish well being [ 36].
Together, these challenges appear to contribute to psychological conflict and diminished well-being for many.
While scientists generally agree that the risk of additional harm at the surface and near the shore has diminished since the well was capped a month ago, a sharp debate has arisen about the continuing risk from oil in the deep waters.
While the nuclear threat may be diminished, it could well be supplanted by intensified sectarian proxy wars in the Middle East as Iran's economic isolation ends.
Imputing a sentimentalized solidarity to groups risks diminishing what may well be knowledge-workers' intellectual, principled, or pragmatic motives to participate in a community and identify with it [ 12, 24, 36].
The truth is that the really big news this year is that Crosby, the game's most creative player, was absent after a series of what seem to be career-threatening concussions and, even if he does return, he may well be diminished.
The truth is that the really big news this year is that Crosby, the game's most creative player, was absent after a series of what seem to be career-threatening concussions — and, even if he does return, he may well be diminished.
(The gorgeousness of these forms may very well be diminished by the treatment of the copper surface; Mr. Piano plans to treat the copper with acid, which will give it a uniformly green finish, rather than letting it age naturally, which would convey a passing of time).
Here, we choose to model nectar uptake by the bee with a Michaelis-Menten-like function, assuming that the bee experiences diminishing returns for longer stays in the flower (evidence suggests that a diminishing returns curve may well be appropriate [37]).
As we reported earlier, TNF-α expression is diminished by adenosine and may well be one of the key targets of this autacoid.
Although plasma PCE levels may be diminished as well, still there is little correlation with acetylcholinesterase activity in either the brain or at the neuromuscular junction [4, 9].
