The width of Masp1 knockout cortices was similar to that of wild-type, whereas Masp2 knockout cortices exhibited an 8% reduction in width as compared to wild-type (92±2.6% versus 100±1.9% respectively, n=5, Student's t-test, P=0.04).
Unloading resulted in a 230% increase in apoptotic chondrocytes, a 400% increase in iNOS-positive chondrocytes, and a 17% reduction in width in articular cartilage.
Also, while this reduction in width commenced at low extension in the taut-annealed samples, it occurred at relatively higher extension in the slack-annealed yarns.
Pedestal physics appears to largely determine these widths; a dependence of width on plasma thermal energy is noted, yielding a reduction in width as plasma current is increased for the best EDA H-modes.
In this work, three variants (reduction in width of armor, inverse trapezoid shape in the lower part and castellation) of full-W divertor armor design based on the ITER divertor design are proposed to mitigate deep cracking at 20 MW/m20
The decreasing sensitivity of pick-up coils with increasing peak frequency response to MBN signal generation is indicated by the gradual reduction in width of MBN profile and height of peak 2 in the QT sample.
Test results also showed a significant reduction in width, and total area of plastic shrinkage cracks of slabs reinforced with an increased amount of RP fibers compared to control slabs without fibers.
Pujol et al. showed a 9 % reduction in width on follow up CT arthrogram of completely healed repaired medial menisci (Pujol et al. 2008).
After 4 days of immobilisation the reduction in width of the intercondylar fossa was very obvious, particularly ventrally (Figure 3A).
The distal end of the femur, showed a reduction in the height of both condyles in the dorso-ventral orientation but no significant reduction in width following 4 days of immobilisation (Table 2), either at the midline or ventral aspect.
