It may mean that, if we assume that the heavy exposure to mobile phone radiation could cause any health effects, the average effects of exposure might be diminished when analyzing in the same group the very low- and the very high-exposed study subjects.
For some applications, this restriction might be too strict, for example, the decrease in proficiency could be stronger for a switching point in earlier item positions and could diminish when PD affects only the very last items.
The need for an extra capital buffer might diminish if and when it's clear that a huge financial firm could be allowed to fail in an orderly way.
If auditory cues facilitate object detection by encouraging explicit mental imagery, then the cuing effect might diminish or disappear when the position of the target is uncertain.
The grand jury, originally impaneled until this month, has had its term extended to January — a date that not only falls after upcoming elections, but well into the winter, when cold weather might diminish the likelihood of rioting if there is not an indictment.
Why force the party's candidate for president to grovel when doing so might diminish his chances to win the election?
However, when PFSP extracts were added, M1 cell activation might diminish and immune response was converted to anti-inflammatory response so that more macrophage cells could migrate into the scratch.
So when Mr. Bernanke, the Fed chairman, said that the stimulus might diminish, alarm was bound to spread.
Even when he dons the judge's heavy robe, he never succumbs to the self-seriousness that might diminish his subject's humanity.
When President Bush delivers a commencement speech today at Yale, his alma mater, no one will assume this might diminish his ability to handle rising gasoline prices.
