Of particular concern today is the shrinking half-life of established business models.
Though the shrinking half-time, t1/2, of gel was on the order of 500 min for Tprep≤20 °C, t1/2 decreased to 2 min for Tprep≥26 °C.
William Ware Theiss William Ware Theiss, the series' original costume designer, said that the uniform tops shrank half a size with each dry cleaning.
A clue can be found in the poet John Byrne Leicester Warren's 1893 poem about Circe, a beautiful witch: "Thou art the shrinking violet, half afraid," -- and here comes the explanation -- That, in rathe April born,/Where icy winds complain,/Hardly unfolds her petals to the morn/Between the rainbow and the weep of rain".
Kazakhstan also wraps around the entire northern half of the shrinking Aral Sea, which underwent terrible decline during the second half of the 20th century: as freshwater inflow was diverted for agriculture, the salinity of the sea increased sharply, and the receding shores became the source of salty dust and polluted deposits that ruined the surrounding lands for animal, plant, or human use.
But that way of life vanished, and over the last half-century the shrinking village became more reliant on Wells, one of the country's oldest liberal arts colleges for women.
Inspired and motivated by the work of Nakajo and Takahashi [5], Takahashi et al. [6], Dong et al. [7], Ceng et al. [17] and Cholamjiak and Suantai [20], we propose a hybrid method based on the shrinking effect of the two half-spaces, namely C n and Q n, of the underlying Hilbert space H.
The government now believes recession will extend into next year, with the economy shrinking another half a percent in 2013.
That part of the business has been shrinking as half the buyers of mobile phones shift to smartphones.
The expansion comes after the company shrank by half.
From 2000 the seizure of white-owned farms led to chaos in the agriculture sector and the economy shrank by half.
