There was a progressive decline in biodiversity during the Maastrichtian stage of the Cretaceous period prior to the suggested ecological crisis induced by events at the K – Pg boundary ( K – T boundary ).

This decline ( in aerobic capacity ) is most likely a consequence of the sedentary lifestyle that is often associated with the symptoms of IBM ( i. e. progressive muscle weakness, decreased mobility, and increased level of fatigue ).

On 19 November 1968, following progressive economic decline, the Keïta regime was overthrown in a bloodless military coup led by Moussa Traoré, a day which is now commemorated as Liberation Day.

It may be static, the result of a unique global brain injury, or progressive, resulting in long-term decline due to damage or disease in the body.

Hyolith abundance and diversity attain a maximum in the Cambrian, followed by a progressive decline up to their Permian extinction.

Secondary progressive MS ( sometimes called " galloping MS ") describes around 65 % of those with an initial relapsing-remitting MS, who then begin to have progressive neurologic decline between acute attacks without any definite periods of remission.

After a progressive decline in circulation the afternoon edition was cancelled, the last edition being published on 21 December 2001.

The area economy is largely based on forestry, cotton farming, and rice farming, but has suffered from a long-term decline caused by progressive failure of the paper industry.

As had happened under his leadership generally, the Liberals in government appeared now to be enacting progressive liberalism, as opposed to traditional, Gladstonian liberalism which was by now in decline.

However, he concluded that the progressive decline of the English language is reversible and offered six rules to help avoid most of the errors in his previous examples of poor writing:

The Brethren have been in decline in the UK since the 1950s, but the assemblies with more progressive approaches have grown.

In fact the plates survived, and since Goya's death several further editions have been published, showing a progressive and drastic decline in quality of the image, despite some rework.

Faubus ' decline occurred when the Democrats reformed their own party in response to public acceptance of the progressive polices followed by Rockefeller.

A combination of anti-CCF propaganda, the increasing adoption of somewhat progressive policies by the New Brunswick Liberals and Conservatives, and a general trend of post-war decline for the CCF nationally all contributed to weaken the New Brunswick CCF in the 1948 provincial election, this time under Arrowsmith's leadership, in which they received half the votes they won in 1944 and again won no seats.

With the progressive decline in Byzantium's military fortunes, the gates were walled up and reduced in size in the later Palaiologan period, and the complex converted into a citadel and refuge.

The organisation suffered a progressive decline in membership and closure of branches during the later 20th century.

A complete prognosis includes the expected duration, the function, and a description of the course of the disease, such as progressive decline, intermittent crisis, or sudden, unpredictable crisis.

In the early 1990s, the springs were showing signs of an even more disturbing degradation: a progressive decline in water quality.

This is followed by progressive mental decline and loss of physical skills.

During the 1870s the business of the port was beginning to decline because of the progressive silting of the shipping channels.

Unlike multiple sclerosis, Devic's disease rarely has a secondary progressive phase in which patients have increasing neurologic decline between attacks without remission.

With the emergence of the New Wave scene at the beginning of 1980s, most of Serbian progressive rock bands saw the decline of popularity and ceased to exist.

Narratives of environmental history tend to be declensionist, that is, accounts of progressive decline under human activity.

Dewey's most significant writings were " The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology " ( 1896 ), a critique of a standard psychological concept and the basis of all his further work ; Democracy and Education ( 1916 ), his celebrated work on progressive education ; Human Nature and Conduct ( 1922 ), a study of the function of habit in human behavior ; The Public and its Problems ( 1927 ), a defense of democracy written in response to Walter Lippmann's The Phantom Public ( 1925 ); Experience and Nature ( 1925 ), Dewey's most " metaphysical " statement ; Art as Experience ( 1934 ), Dewey's major work on aesthetics ; A Common Faith ( 1934 ), a humanistic study of religion originally delivered as the Dwight H. Terry Lectureship at Yale ; Logic: The Theory of Inquiry ( 1938 ), a statement of Dewey's unusual conception of logic ; Freedom and Culture ( 1939 ), a political work examining the roots of fascism ; and Knowing and the Known ( 1949 ), a book written in conjunction with Arthur F. Bentley that systematically outlines the concept of trans-action, which is central to his other works.

Within the genus Canis, the gray wolf represents a more specialised and progressive form than its smaller cousins ( the coyote and golden jackal ), as demonstrated by its morphological adaptations to hunting large prey, its more gregarious nature and its highly advanced expressive behavior.

Reggio has been involved in many progressive political causes in the United States, including work for the American Civil Liberties Union, co-organizing a multi-media public interest campaign on the invasion of privacy and the use of technology to control behavior.

The subject also developed confusional episodes with spatial and temporal disorientation, visual and auditory hallucinations, complex behavior during sleep and progressive nocturnal insomnia associated with diurnal drowsiness.

Morison refused, however, to remove repeated references to the anti-abolitionist caricature of " Sambo ", which he claimed were vital in understanding the racist nature of American culture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, an era when even the most enlightened progressive thinkers routinely explained many aspects of human behavior as being a result of innate racial or ethnic characteristics.

Morison also refused to remove references to stereotypes of African Americans that he believed were vital in accurately depicting the racist nature of American culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries — an era when even the most enlightened progressive thinkers routinely explained many aspects of human behavior as being a result of innate racial or ethnic characteristics.

Her court was one of the most liberal and progressive in the Commonwealth, although some aspects of her behavior also caused scandals.

Yet, Muslims are taught to be moderate in their behavior and attitude, such that they should not indulge in excessive actions ( or extremism ) in their zeal to be the best of example for mankind-‘ Moderation in behavior and attitude, yet dynamic and progressive in thinking and practice .’ ( Ibrahim JCH, 2007 ).

The theory represents an attempt to provide a more empirically progressive account of complex human behavior while preserving the naturalistic approach of behavior analysis.

In psychology, habituation is an example of non-associative learning in which there is a progressive diminution of behavioral response probability with repetition stimulus.

In patients with progressive kyphotic deformity due to vertebral collapse, a procedure called a kyphoplasty may arrest the deformity and relieve the pain.

Because progressive alarm clocks have a complex waking procedure, they can deter this adaptation due to the body needing to adapt to more stimuli than just a simple sound alert.

So we may conceive the coexistence of the infinite number of universal, apparently momentary states of matter, successive one after another in consciousness, but permanent each on its own basic phase of the progressive frequencies.

Information may be used when design buildings against progressive failure.

Other effects are unpleasant or dangerous because alcohol affects many different areas of the body at once and may cause progressive, long-term harm when consumed in excess.

This developed the progressive education notion that students were to be engaged and taught so that their knowledge may be directed to society for a socially useful need.

These two tenses may be modified further for progressive aspect ( also called continuous aspect ), for the perfect, or for both.

Single stage presses are commonly most used for high-precision rifle cartridge handloading, but may be used for high-precision reloading of all cartridge types, and for working up loads ( developing loading recipes ) for ultimately manufacturing large numbers of cartridges on a progressive press.

" Bahá ' u ' lláh thus provided for the progressive application of his laws ; for example certain Bahá ' í laws are only applicable to Middle Eastern Bahá ' ís such as the limit to the period of engagement, while any Bahá ' í may practice the laws if they so decide.

MG is not usually a progressive disease ; the symptoms may fluctuate, but do not always get worse as the patient ages.

Another problem may be their genre, as the Hall of Fame has repeatedly come under criticism for excluding progressive rock entirely.

As Scleroderma progresses, esophageal involvement from abnormalities in decreased motility may worsen due to progressive fibrosis ( scarring ).

The terms can also be used to apply meaning to the taxation of select consumption, such as a tax on luxury goods and the exemption of basic necessities may be described as having progressive effects as it increases a tax burden on high end consumption and decreases a tax burden on low end consumption.

The incidence of taxation varies by system, and some systems may be viewed as progressive or regressive.

Excessive alcohol use may cause alcohol dementia, Wernicke's encephalopathy and / or Korsakoff's psychosis, and certain other recreational drugs may cause substance-induced persisting dementia ; once overuse ceases, the cognitive impairment is persistent but not progressive.

Hypothyroidism sometimes causes slowly progressive cognitive impairment as the main symptom, and this may be fully reversible with treatment.

Cognitive impairment also occurs in the Parkinson-plus syndromes of progressive supranuclear palsy and corticobasal degeneration ( and the same underlying pathology may cause the clinical syndromes of frontotemporal lobar degeneration ).

This raises the possibility that the development of movable type in the West may have been progressive rather than a single innovation.

However, McGuckin theorizes that Candidian's progressive abandonment of neutrality in favor of Nestorius may have created the perception that Candidian's troops were, in fact, there to support Nestorius.

Calcification also occurs in the valves, which may lead to a progressive valvular dysfunction as evidenced by aortic stenosis or regurgitation.

The creation of the internet and its progressive innovations have opened up doors for people to meet other people who they may very well have never met otherwise.

Although the clinical relevance of the fungal airway colonization is still a matter of debate, filamentous fungi may contribute to the local inflammatory response, and therefore to the progressive deterioration of the lung function, as often happens with allergic broncho-pulmonary aspergillosis ( ABPA ) – the most common fungal disease in the context of CF, involving a Th2-driven immune response to Aspergillus.

* dysmenorrhea – painful, sometimes disabling cramps during menses ; pain may get worse over time ( progressive pain ), also lower back pains linked to the pelvis

Dialysis may be used for those with an acute disturbance in kidney function ( acute kidney injury, previously acute renal failure ), or progressive but chronically worsening kidney function – a state known as chronic kidney disease stage 5 ( previously chronic renal failure or end-stage renal disease ).

Cataracts may be partial or complete, stationary or progressive, or hard or soft.