There is a diminution of complexity.
We report an fMRI study of 22 right-handed individuals with schizophrenia, 21 right-handed healthy individuals and 10 non-right-handed healthy individuals, designed to test the hypothesis that in schizophrenia there is a diminution of both lateralisation and intra-hemispheric focalisation during the passive processing of vibrotactile stimuli delivered to the right index finger.
In aged rat skeletal muscle, there is a diminution of Hsp70, indicating that older animals are less protected from cellular stresses.
Additionally, the TAp63-/ mice exhibited patches where there was a diminution in the number of hair follicles resulting in alopecia in these mice.
Due to the glucose impermeability of porcine red blood cells (compared with rats and rabbits) there is a diminution in generation of NADPH and hence decreased reduction of methaemoglobin [ 23].
"In a sense, every one of her successes was a diminution of him," Eyre says.
"There has been a diminution of values," James E. Burke, the former chief executive of Johnson & Johnson, is quoted as saying.
"There's been a diminution of respect for the office of the presidency, and it's not just here, it's abroad," he said, adding that voters' concern about that "is going to manifest itself on Election Day".
He writes: "There has been a diminution of magnanimity in government both central and local, with the public finding itself rebranded as customers, supposedly to dignify our requirements but in effect to make us available for easier exploitation".
Peter Mandaville, the director of the Center for Global Studies at George Mason University and the author of "Global Political Islam," said: "Over time, there will be a diminution of the youth bulge, but we're at the crisis level of it now.
