The channelized flow pattern associated with ubiquitous heterogeneity in fracture aperture distribution causes non-uniform temperature decrease in the rock body, which makes the flow increasingly concentrated into some preferential paths through the action of thermal stress.
Active surveillance (AS) has been increasingly proposed as the preferential initial management strategy for low-risk prostate cancer (PC), while in high-risk PC the indication for surgery has widened.
Regional trade agreements (RTAs), which include free trade areas, customs unions and preferential trade agreements, are becoming increasingly important.
Across Europe, people are complaining that they are unfairly paying the price for the mistakes of their governments while they are growing increasingly resentful of the international banks and the preferential treatment they seem to receive.
The region is becoming less dependent on preferential trade agreements with Europe and increasingly relying on other developing economies for trade and investment.
The sublinear growth in Figure 4(A) indicates that new edges are increasingly attached to pre-existing composers, reflecting the preferential attachment behavior that we discussed above.
A set of filters, called "Spatial Frequency Channels", performs this analysis: Each channel is tuned to a preferential frequency band, with declining sensitivity to increasingly different frequencies.
As the pressure rises, the preferential decrease of H mole fraction suggests an increasingly dominant role of OH in an exothermic oxidative process.
Mr Ruggiero has put it nicely: regionalism will undoubtedly continue to proliferate so the issue is whether the groupings go off on their own, with possibly disastrous consequences, or increasingly fuse into a common global context that eventually wipes out their preferential features.
Dual-permeability models are increasingly used to quantify the transport of solutes and microorganisms in soils with preferential flow.
