Mentally, he still seems on the other shore, in a different world closed to most people in the room, where his personal space was shrunk to a minimum, where his every move was followed by video cameras and where time stopped or expanded infinitely.
When MRI can confidently diagnose that the cancer has completely remised or shrunk to a minimum disease, a small lumpectomy is usually sufficient, and that will likely lead to a good cosmetic outcome after surgery.
Shortening of telomeres during each cell division may lead to cell death; a cell stops dividing while its telomeres shrink to a critical minimum size; and it is one of the causes found in the degeneration of our vision, memory, and immune system.
Attention spans shrink to a point.
Job growth has shrunk to a sliver.
THE e-mail message from the chancellor warned David Card that if the California Legislature failed to adopt a budget by Sept. 1, his salary, and those of all the other tenured professors at the University of California at Berkeley, would shrink to the minimum wage.
I.B.M., which is one of the biggest proponents of nanotubes for microelectronic applications, has made clear its hope that carbon nanotube technology will be ready a decade from now, when semiconductors are expected to shrink to minimum dimensions of just 5 nanometers.
"We'd seen all the notables, and all the people with problems, but most of the real people, the real part of our work — that was shrunk to the minimum.
In France, as in most industrial countries, the 20th century saw the agricultural world shrinking to the minimum and the populations deserting the countryside for the big cities.
The main idea is to compute the smallest λ value, λmax, for which all coefficients are shrunk to zero, select a minimum λ value, λmin, and evaluate a sequence of K values for λ decreasing from λmax to λmin on the log scale.
