Days later, the state geological agency predicted that the area could expect aftershocks to continue for more than two decades, albeit with the likelihood of diminishing severity.
But the likelihood of apocalypse diminished when two astronomers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., contended that the chance of an impact was zero.
In young people, increasing iodine intake results in regression of the goitre; however, the likelihood of regression diminishes with age.
MDR-TB treatment remains arduous and unsatisfactory: whereas 87% of all newly notified TB patients reported to WHO complete their medication successfully, only about one half of MDR-TB cases do so and the likelihood of success diminishes with progressive resistance beyond MDR-TB [ 8– 10].
As for the aging effect, levels of depressive symptoms on the negative affect domain increased with age (mean linear growth rate = 0.18, p < 0.001) with the acceleration in the likelihood of symptoms diminishing slightly over time (mean quadric growth rate = -0.004, p < 0.01).
Guey and colleagues, in 1969 [4], identified factors influencing the occurrence of epileptic paroxysms in 30 patients with absences; particularly they found that, when an epileptic patient focused his attention, the likelihood of GSW discharges diminished considerably.
But as the British cabinet reconsidered the costs and benefits of intervention in the wake of Antietam, the likelihood diminished, and by 1863 it was becoming ever more apparent that Confederate hopes of British recognition were in vain.
What is more, once new laws come in that are intended to make haircuts more orderly, the likelihood of panic may diminish.
39 In our earlier study, we reported the likelihood of a gradually diminishing underestimation in Korea's official suicide statistics (ie, they have become more accurate), due to improving death examination processes and classification.
