Therefore, it is a variable X which decreases in direct ratio to the progress of the discoveries of science.
Placing material between personnel and patient and the radiation source decreases the dose (the reduction factor is dependent on the type of radiation and the density of the shielding material).
Thermal radiation travels outward from the fireball in a straight line; therefore, the amount of energy available to cause flash burns decreases rapidly with distance.
Increasing the distance from the radiation source reduces the exposure in an inverse square relationship (double the distance factor by 2 decreases the exposure factor by 4).
The advantages of the wash-in must, of course, be paid for in some loss of lift, as the lift decreases with the decreased angle.
In order to secure a constant pitch from root to tip of blade, the pitch angle decreases towards the tip.
And so you will note that the Angle of Incidence, which is the inclination of the Surfaces to the Direction of Motion, has decreased, and of course the Lift decreases with it.
For our enemy Drift decreases in respect of distance with the increase of altitude and rarity of air, and there is no limit to the speed through space if only our strength remains.
The margin of lift decreases with altitude, owing to the decrease in the density of the air, which adversely affects the engine.
Gravity, of which weight is a measure, decreases with increase of altitude.
By this action he decreases the angle at which the planes are inclined to the wind and so minimizes the latter's effect upon them.
On the Western side of the Great Divide the rainfalldecreases from 40 in.
But, taking the experience of America and other countries in which artesian springs have been tapped, it may be said that the flow steadily decreases as the number of bores multiplies.
Relative tail length increases slightly in both sexes up to the time of sexual maturity, and then decreases slightly with advancing age.
The relative tail length seemingly increases in the growing young and then decreases slightly in adults.
The excess of oxygen is not due to any like excess in the gaseous contents of sea-water, for the percentage of oxygen decreases from the surface downward, while that of nitrogen remains nearly unchanged.
Whether the savings of those classes that increased their accumulations would counteract the decreases in the saving of the richer classes, is a question that admits of no definite or confident answer.
Starting at the outside edge of the disks it travels around and around in constantly narrowing circles as the steam pressure decreases until it finally reaches the holes in the disks at their centre, and there passes out.
Their thickness decreases toward the tips, which are about eight inches thick.
As one goes up mountains the water vapor increases for a couple of thousand feet and then decreases to the seven mile limit after which it has almost completely vanished.
The highest winds are always where the steepest gradients are; that is, where the barometric pressure decreases or increases the fastest.
In both hemispheres, the zone in which the temperature decreases most rapidly lies between the 40th and 50th degrees of north latitude.
See Humboldt’s observations as to how, in Spanish America, agriculture in the vicinity of the mines increases and decreases with the wealth of the latter.
Progress in civilization tends to bring the parties engaged in the struggle for prices that is buyers and sellers, nearer to one another, in so far as it uniformly decreases the cost of production, and increases the purchaser’s ability to pay.
On the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the late Queen's accession to the throne, further decreases were announced in the postage on inland letters.
The increases or decreases are given in the form of percentages, each five-year period being compared with the preceding period.
The effects of training are not to store up energy in the body, for it has been proved that work decreases rather than increases the amount of energy in the body.
This is quite true, but the analysis is incomplete, for an increased number of progeny not only decreases the life chances of the parents, but also of the young, by reducing the amount of care they receive.
A decrease in pipe areadecreases the radiating surface of the pipe and thus the possible condensation.
Thus, circulation increases the efficiency in two ways: it adds to the ability to take up the heat, and decreases the liability to waste that heat by what is technically known as priming.
The saving through the use of superheated steam in the heat consumption of an engine decreases demands on the boiler and hence the fuel consumption per unit of power.
The boiling point of water decreases as the altitude above sea level increases.
It will be seen that no matter what the excess of air supplied, the actual amount of carbon dioxide per pound of carbon remains the same, while the percentage by volume decreases as the excess of air increases.
Being perfectly elastic, the density or weight per unit of volume decreases in geometric progression with the altitude.
It decreases in the temperate zones on eastern coasts as compared with western coasts, but within the tropics it is the reverse.
It decreases in quantity as we approach the poles.
Clinical studies on irradiation of cancer patients indicate that lowering the body temperature reduces cellular metabolism and thus decreasestissue sensitivity to gamma radiation ([ref.
Gravitational force decreases by the square of the distance away from the Earth's center.
Aldosterone excretion decreases during recumbency and during standing in water, but increases while standing in air.
It is a well-known fact that every increase in the price of any article decreases the demand, and the advance in the price of linseed oil has undoubtedly had a great effect in decreasing the consumption of oil.
The added resistance of the hot wires decreases the flow of current to keep the temperature at the desired degree.
The added resistance in a socket decreases the flow of current and, therefore, the filament gives less light.
The resistance wire is divided into a number of sections and contact with the terminals of these sections decreases the light with each addition of resistance.
Carbon, while increasing the strength and hardness, decreases the ease of forging and bending and decreases the magnetism and electrical conductivity.
Suppose, for example, that we have a great sphere of radius R and that the temperature decreases from the center to the surface of this sphere according to the law of which I have spoken in describing the non-Euclidean world.
A simple calculation shows that our double integral decreases very rapidly when t increases.
Its intrinsic weight must be exactly equal to the weight of the air it displaces, and since the density of the air decreases according to a fixed law, amounting, approximately, to a difference in barometric reading of 0.
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