With White as the promotional face and Lorenzo Fertitta as its chairman, the Las Vegas-based UFC was kept afloat by the Fertittas' casino fortune while the sport once labeled by John McCain as "human cockfighting" gradually gained widespread acceptance and popularity.
This study explores the effects of shrinkage-reducing admixtures (SRA) used in self-compacting concrete (SCC), a specific type of concrete which is gradually receiving widespread use, yet to be improved to the desired properties and expected to replace traditional concrete in the future, on its strength and durability.
This improvised measure gradually became widespread among the troops stationed in India and North-West Frontier, and sometimes among the troops campaigning on the African continent.
Nevertheless, since late 2011, cases of pseudorabies have occurred on many farms, and the disease has gradually become widespread in China.
The use of plants for the large-scale production of heterologous proteins is gradually gaining widespread acceptance and could provide a platform for the cost-effective production of proteins on an agricultural scale.
Prof Kenneth Rogoff of Harvard University says China's slowdown is both inevitable and desirable but he warns: "It is not easy to rein in growth gradually without triggering widespread failure of ambitious investment projects".
With the development of various new tools and peripheral devices and the accumulation of experience and expertise in ESD, colorectal ESD is gradually coming into widespread use in Japan.
The cloud will achieve widespread adoption gradually, as most business technologies do.
Gradually, it has become widespread all over the world for various purposes.
Although the process begins focally, it gradually spreads to involve widespread regions of the brain including the frontal and temporal lobes, medial temporal lobe, diencephalon, and brainstem.
