Sentence examples for subtle decline from inspiring English sources

The Daqing Oilfield is one of the China's largest oilfields since the 1950s and has reached a steady state of production since the 1970s, with recent subtle decline in production.

The new work, published in an upcoming issue of Mechanisms of Ageing and Development, suggests that telomere length tracks the subtle decline of fitness with age well before disease strikes.

WASHINGTON -- Two new automated polls show sharp declines in support for Newt Gingrich in Iowa, and the national Gallup Daily tracking poll shows a more subtle decline nationwide.

RT-PCR analysis indicated that homozygous enarev showed a significant reduction in ena expression, whereas a single copy of P[UAS]117 (as in enarev/+) resulted in a subtle decline in ena levels, consistent with its lack of effect on the behavioral paradigm (Figs. 4G and 2A B).

Several studies have shown that long-term lithium use is associated with a subtle decline in estimated glomerular filtration rate.

Lithium causes a subtle decline in glomerular filtration rate; renal function needs to be monitored in patients on lithium treatment.

7 However, the MMSE is unable to detect subtle declines in cognitive aging.

Longitudinal studies that have used "normal" cognitive status as an inclusion criterion have found that even "normal" aging may contribute to subtle declines in cognitive functioning.

However, others have argued that changes in mammography use are more likely to be responsible, because subtle declines in breast cancer incidence began in 1999, predating publication of the Women's Health Initiative trial results, and because of the uncertain biological plausibility of an instantaneous change in risk after HT cessation [ 5].

"What is so fascinating about this is, what do you define as 'affected' in somebody who carries a gene that is going to cause a slow, subtle social decline?

Neurophysiological assessment of cognitive functioning can assess different aspects of cognitive domains and should be done to detect subtle cognitive decline in IIH patients (Additional file 3).