Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a progressively disabling condition characterised by impaired respiratory function associated with physical limitations and psychological co-morbidity.
The strategy of activating these two main types of MU during a voluntary contraction is based on Henneman's "size principle", which states that progressively larger MUs characterised by larger CVs are recruited with increasing muscle force [ 35].
We found that asexual taxa with relatively old clonal lineages are characterised by progressively stronger deviations from neutrality.
On the contrary, it could play as combined barriers conduits during its later evolution (progressively at shallower levels) being characterised by intersecting fault planes, which define pipe-like conduits parallel to the direction of the tectonic transport.
This patient group, progressively growing in size, is characterised by a high use of health care resources, elevated rates of hospitalisations and a high prevalence of disability and dependence during the course of the disease [ 1- 4].
The potential opportunities of PEC are shaped by both its strengths and the progressively more quantitative requirements of NDT&E, which is characterised by ever increasingly more stringent safety regulations; and this is especially true in the sectors where human lives are in stake, such as aerospace and nuclear industry.
Furthermore, children have more short-range connections which are progressively replaced by longer range connections in adulthood, suggesting that development is characterised by both progressive integration and segregation [ 36, 37].
In recent years, as a result of human activity, the waters of the lake have become progressively more and more turbid, and the various vibrant colours which characterised the males of the various types of cichlids one hundred years ago disappeared progressively because the members of the various 'species' hybridised with one another, to result in a much more homogenous and duller population [ 80].
From 1 to 4 days after RA induction, SH-SY5Y cells progressively underwent phenotypic changes that were compatible with neuron-like morphology, characterised by neurite outgrowth.
ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT01296295 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) involves a heterogeneous group of processes characterised by little reversible air flow obstruction of chronic and progressively disabling evolution which causes a high morbimortality around the world.
