As readers have noted since its publication, the plot of Huckleberry Finn, for example, deteriorates markedly at the end; Ernest Hemingway dismissed the story's resolution as a "cheat".
A material decrease in a backlog of orders, for example, indicates deteriorating revenues and earnings, he said.
An archaeologist 7,000 years hence might find some cloth has survived, though materials used in some of the earliest spacesuits, for example, are deteriorating rapidly.
If lift is not found during a cross-country flight, for example because of deteriorating weather, the pilot must choose a location to "land out".
His memory, for example, has not deteriorated significantly.
If these results were an effect of exposure they could either have been the direct effect of emissions or an indirect effect following the use of a wireless phone, such as for example tiredness or deteriorated sleeping habits.
For example, patients who deteriorate in their treadmill exercise capacity should, in general, show increases in dyspnea, whereas those whose exercise capacity improves should experience less dyspnea; a new emotional function measure should show improvement in patients who improve on existing measures of emotional function.
When conditions deteriorate, for example as temperatures drop, many freshwater species and a few marine ones produce gemmules, "survival pods" of unspecialized cells that remain dormant until conditions improve and then either form completely new sponges or recolonize the skeletons of their parents.
As one of the outcomes for the trial is hospitalisation, we do expect some participants to be admitted to hospital due to a deterioration of their underlying illness, for example, pneumonia, empyema and deteriorating bronchiolitis.
For example, in case of deteriorating patient condition, tasks to stabilise the patient have to be prioritised, surgery may have to be interrupted and the team may call a more experienced clinician for help.
