Or you can slowly contract the muscles until you reach a maximal contraction and then slowly release them.
If the cyclic model is correct, the universe would stop expanding about a trillion years from now, then slowly contract for another 10 billion years.
In crustaceans, the muscle receptor organ contains two elements: a slowly contracting, nonadapting tonic fibre and a quickly contracting, rapidly adapting phasic element.
Meanwhile, the PC industry has been slowly contracting, suffering from six consecutive quarters of declining sales, according to data from Canalys.
Still, if over time, the emission-intensive industries slowly contract due to cap and trade, employment data suggests that job creation from the investment of cap-and-trade revenue should offset any job losses.
Mr. Holliday said the events of recent weeks underscored the arc of the conflict since late spring: The rebels have been gaining strength and becoming more organized, he said, and the government forces have been slowly contracting under pressure.
Ominously, the one option that offered a way into agriculture for aspiring farmers – county council-owned farms – is slowly contracting as local authorities sell valuable assets to make ends meet.
In its latest long-term forecast, Boeing predicted that the world market for regional jets would slowly contract over the next 20 years, in part because economic and environmental concerns are pushing airlines into buying larger planes.
Overall, the Chinese market — the world's largest for smartphones — continues to slowly contract following a dip in the previous quarter.
Interestingly, even in very long-term (two week) cultures, thin, slowly contracting myotubes without nuclei clusters persisted in the culture.
