We are all used to miniaturization in our daily lives — the steady shrinking of the electronic tools we use, like telephones and video screens.
The steady shrinking of the world's political units raises the question of what the ideal size would be from an economic perspective.
The steady shrinking of both has clearly led to a change in albedo and so, presumably, to amplification of temperature rise.
NAME the country with the highest growth rate in Europe last year, booming exports, zero inflation, a rock-steady currency, shrinking unemployment and a budget surplus.
For (kappa>0, kappa= 0, operatorname{or } kappa< 0), the gradient Ricci soliton ((M, langle,rangle, e^{-f},dnu, kappa)) is called shrinking, steady, or expanding, respectively.
In the United States, the scene appears to be steady, neither growing nor shrinking.
For now, while the jobless rate holds steady, the workweek is shrinking more quickly than it did at the start of the 1990-91 recession.
In this reviewer's opinion, it would behoove the authors to include a third possibility that MreB filaments are fluctuating at steady state, growing and shrinking.
It has to be determined whether MreB filaments fluctuate at a steady state, growing and shrinking from both ends, or exhibit dynamic instability leading to catastrophic disassembly, as described in detail for ParM (Garner et al., 2004; Gayathri et al., 2013).
3. On the other hand, the number of phones/worker may hold steady or actually shrink.
The World Bank estimates that the value of exports for the 44 large economies (which together account for three-quarters of world trade) plunged by 7.4% in October and then by 15.4% in November, before holding steady in December and then shrinking by another 12.2% in January this year.
