An Access database was created to collect retrospective data using different panels: patients' identification, tumour histology, previously delivered treatments and regimens, initial assessment, initial biology, EM chemotherapy-related data (delivered EM dose and cause of diminution, number of cycles administered, toxicities and side effects), efficacy and follow-up data.
demographic and social challenges from the territorial point of view, segregation of vulnerable groups – the diminution in number of the rural population and the strong demographic ageing on the rise have an impact upon rural cohesion starting from the type of public services, their supply and ending up with the rural labour market; b).
"You might see a diminution in numbers," she said.
In Spain, increased aridity and habitat loss have led to a diminution in numbers and it is regarded as "near threatened".
Salamanders showed a significant diminution in numbers in the last few decades of the 20th century, although no direct link between the fungus and the population decline has yet been found.
For the global analysis of all nine yeast genomes, an increase of this parameter from 10 to 15 drastically decreased the background noise (61% diminution in the number of tagged CDSs, from 307 to 120), without greatly modifying the number of detected TGAs (8.1% loss, from 356 TGAs to 327).
The growth in performance has been matched by a growth in cost and a diminution of the number of aircraft required by civil and military customers.
Those of us old enough to recall the comprehensive news coverage of the Telegraph in the 1950s and 60s will wonder, yet again, whether it means a diminution in the number of stories carried by the paper.
It really is an inspiring example of good ideas triumphing over bad ones – or it would be, if there had been any notable diminution of the number of creationists in the last 30 years.
For the TMT, a diminution in the number of perseverations was observed after training in both groups (main effect of Time, Table 4).
There is an enormous literature devoted to the effects on road safety produced by these systems, with almost all data converging on a resultant significant diminution of the number of road accident victims [18, 36].
