AFTER shrinking continuously for the past 18 months, the Japanese economy has at last begun to stir.
General Idris and various aides say that some 70 percent to 80 percent of the field commanders are loyal to the joint military command, but other opposition leaders and rebel commanders say the number shrinks continuously because of the credibility gap created by the lack of a reliable weapons supply.
Now, by the age of 65, only 16% of men are still in the workforce in America and only 4% in continental Europe.Thus, a larger generation of old folk than ever before will need support for longer than ever before from a population of working age that is shrinking continuously in absolute size for the first time since the Black Death.
The progress in electroless plating followed the need and the trend for better metallization technologies for complex structures with critical dimensions that had been shrinking continuously in the last few decades.
As the droplet shrinks continuously, the coffee stain effect will be observed only at a very late stage of the drying process, or not at all.
In countries of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) mortality from prostate cancer is lower compared to Germany, however, during the last years the difference shrinks continuously (see Fig. 1).
Now it's at about this time that you start looking at the ceiling and saying "What was Poincaré's Conjecture again?" Come on, you remember - if in a closed three-dimensional space, any closed curves can shrink to a point continuously, this space can be deformed to a sphere.
For example, any curve on the surface of a sphere can be continuously shrunk to a point, but there are curves on a torus (curves wrapped around a hole, for instance) that cannot.
The semiconductor industry has long warned about a set of impending bottlenecks described as "the wall," a point in time where more than five decades of progress in continuously shrinking the size of transistors used in computation will end.
West Bengal's Bengali-reading audience has been continuously shrinking under the pressures of English and Hindi (in Kolkata's Oxford Bookstore I noted that the English-language translations of Rabindranath Tagore were prominent best sellers).
