Sentence examples for gradient of decline from inspiring English sources

Three examples demonstrate the steep gradient of decline: In two years, the key performance marker, A&E waits, has worsened from more than 95% of patients waiting four hours or less to under 90%.

We found an opposite gradient of decline (in agreement with Salat et al., 2005 [33]) with posterior periventricular regions showing a greater decline in FA than anterior ones (see Figure 2a).

There is a gradient of declining FSH levels among the three subgroups of wild-type homozygotes (GG), heterozygotes (GT) and homozygotes for the minor allele (TT) of rs10835638 (ANOVA: F = 13.0, P = 0.0016, df = 1; Table  I; Fig.  2).

In practical terms, a point in the gradient of declining relative risk must be reached at which the amount of bias and residual confounding becomes so small that it cannot realistically be ruled out [ 21].

In practical terms, a point in the gradient of declining relative risk must be reached where the amount of bias and residual confounding becomes so small that it cannot realistically be ruled out [ 37].

Species richness decreased steadily from north to south along gradients of declining wave energy, increasing temperature and decreasing salinity.

The spatial variability in crop yields commonly observed in smallholder farms of sub-Saharan Africa is often caused by gradients of declining soil fertility with increasing distance from the homestead.

With reference to the rate of decay or differences in gradient of matAb decline between these two population subgroups however, no differences (−0.009 versus −0.007, t = −1.47, df = 109.39, P = 0.145; 2 tail) were identified.

We also categorized the gradient into three groups: gradient ≤ 0.4 (slow rate of decline); 0.4 < gradient ≤ 0.7 (moderate rate of decline); 0.7 < gradient (rapid rate of decline).

The second accelerator is a hierarchy of responsive genes, whose reactivity modulates the gradient of β-cell declining function.

In categorized evaluation of gradients, the rapid rate of decline was significantly related to high preoperative CEA values, which averaged 45.2 ± 1.25 ng/ml.