Sentence examples for gradual fragmentation from inspiring English sources

Notwithstanding some marvelous work from the supporting cast, this is essentially a monodrama, and Ms. Kidman's gradual fragmentation is heartbreaking.

However, this filamentous fungus is known to reproduce solely by asexual means, shows only sporadic conidiospore production, and has gradual fragmentation of the vegetative mycelium into arthrospores.

The pseudo-ductility shown by thin ply angle-ply laminates has been coupled with the gradual fragmentation of unidirectional (0°) plies to yield a metal-like stress strain curve for a [±θm/0n]s laminate.

Indeed, with the gradual fragmentation of central authority beginning in the 9th century, the process was enhanced: rival caliphates and dynasties flourished in widely scattered parts of the Islamic world, and around them courts provided venues for the stentorian boasts of poets.

A gradual fragmentation of dgPDH can be seen in Figure 1 (panels a and b).

The elastic fiber bundles showed gradual fragmentation and extinction, probably because of the action of proteases such as elastase and chymotrypsin [ 31].

Treatment of cells with the ionophore CCCP resulted in the rapid loss of MMP accompanied by a gradual and consecutive fragmentation of the OPA1 fusion-competent protein fragment and the mitochondrial network.

In any case, because P. leucoptera is capable of adaptive behavioral adjustments to fragmentation, gradual landscape changes should be encouraged to minimize the potential for emergence of non-optimal dispersal behaviors in human-modified landscapes.

Concurrent with a gradual increase in the fragmentation of optimal prey habitat, the b2 of time series from predated prey populations became gradually less negative, which was most pronounced for generalist predators and less for specialist predators (Fig. 1b).

We confirmed that this fragmentation pattern upon gradual p32 depletion was also seen following staining for cytochrome c (Supplementary Figure S2 at http://www.biochemj.org/bj/453/bj4530381add.htm).htm

Application of NCPA to this network showed an inference of contiguous range expansion from the northern surface (AV + FC) to north-east cave (BU) populations and previous gradual range expansion followed by fragmentation for the clade including populations BG + CG and the distant cave GA.