Model results indicate that the floodplain constriction caused a significant impediment to flood conveyance at even modest discharges during prehistoric conditions.
It has long been thought that in the absence of chemical stimulation (i.e. in seawater alone), anemones respond to contact of objects to the feeding tentacles with modest, 'baseline' discharge of nematocysts (Pantin, 1942a; Pantin, 1942b).
A second major perturbation that continues to the present began ca. 1910 1912 CE, when a massive increase in sediment load was accompanied by a modest increase in water discharge after the native vegetation cover in the headwaters was replaced by pasture.
Thus, in seawater alone, mean levels of discharge were modest.
The physical component scores changed significantly over time (all P < 0.001), whereas the mental component scores showed only a modest decline at ICU discharge but recovered rapidly and had improved to higher than baseline values with longer follow-up to 12 months after ICU discharge.
Depending on the force with which the tentacle is contacted, discharge can be modest (i.e. at baseline), maximal, or in between the two extremes.
Functionally, there was still only a modest deterioration of MBI score of 3.7±27.9 (discharge MBI 54.2±23.9 versus 50.4±32.0) (P=0.11).
A more modest reduction of hospital days compatible with discharge was also observed in the control arm, which may be explained by a contamination effect, occurring in spite of the measures taken to ensure blinding.
Microorganism relationships with rainfall indices and tributary discharge variables were globally weak to modest, and generally inconsistent among season, site and microorganism.
The spectroscopic data show that spore discharge mechanisms are driven by very modest levels of pressure that are characteristic of the majority of fungal cells.
