It is characterized by the gradual loss of the ability to name objects.

Many observers from both within and outside of China have argued that the CPC has taken gradual steps towards democracy and transparency, hence arguing that it is best to give it time and room to evolve into a better government that is more responsive to its people rather than forcing an abrupt change with all the deleterious effects such a loss of stability might entail.

There has been gradual melting and recession of Arctic sea ice with extreme loss in 2007 rendering the Northwest Passage " fully navigable ".

But with the loss of Tarentum in 209 BC and the gradual reconquest by the Romans of Samnium and Lucania, his hold on south Italy was almost lost.

The most common symptom of LED ( and diode laser ) failure is the gradual lowering of light output and loss of efficiency.

Dementia which begins gradually and worsens progressively over several years is usually caused by neurodegenerative disease ; that is, by conditions affecting only or primarily the neurons of the brain and causing gradual but irreversible loss of function of these cells.

In physics, attenuation ( in some contexts also called extinction ) is the gradual loss in intensity of any kind of flux through a medium.

The war was increasingly likely as France would not tolerate its gradual loss of status and geopolitical advantage due to Prussia's increasing influence in Germany.

Whether the initial forcing mechanism is internal or external, the response of the climate system might be fast ( e. g., a sudden cooling due to airborne volcanic ash reflecting sunlight ), slow ( e. g. thermal expansion of warming ocean water ), or a combination ( e. g., sudden loss of albedo in the arctic ocean as sea ice melts, followed by more gradual thermal expansion of the water ).

Typically, hearing loss is gradual and often detected by family and friends of affected individuals long before the patients themselves will acknowledge the disability.

Generally, it's not only the person with a hearing disability that feels isolated, but others around them who feel they are not being " heard " or paid attention to, especially when the hearing loss has been gradual.

Typically, onset of tremor occurs in the sixth decade of life, with subsequent progression to ataxia ( loss of coordination ) and gradual cognitive decline.

Acoustic neuroma-tumor, usually benign, which may develop on the hearing and balance nerves and can cause gradual hearing loss, tinnitus, and / or dizziness.

Landau-Kleffner syndrome-childhood disorder of unknown origin which often extends into adulthood and can be identified by gradual or sudden loss of the ability to understand and use spoken language.

This results in a gradual loss of power as water is consumed, increasing the cell resistance and a gradual loss in capacity as active material is converted to corrosion products.

The gradual loss of blood from the gastrointestinal tract, as well as chronic inflammation, often leads to anemia, and professional guidelines suggest routinely monitoring for this.

The gradual loss of blood from the gastrointestinal tract, as well as chronic inflammation, often leads to anemia, and professional guidelines suggest routinely monitoring for this.

Without hormone replacement therapy ( HRT ), typical symptoms ( similar to those experienced by menopausal women ) include hot flashes, gradual bone-density loss resulting in osteopenia or osteoporosis, and potential weight gain or redistribution of body fat to the hips / chest.

The gradual loss of erythrocytes leads to anemia.

Furthermore, zinc sulfide undergoes degradation of its crystal lattice structure, leading to gradual loss of brightness significantly faster than the depletion of radium.

This loss results in gradual increases of individual CpG sites, which vary between copies of the same gene in different cells.

Roy's obsession with an idea implanted by an alien intelligence, his construction of the model, and his gradual loss of contact with his wife, mimic the events in the short story " Dulcie and Decorum " ( 1955 ) by Damon Knight.

The development of his lands after 1903 / 04 marked the start of the gradual development of the area.

The gradual Germanization of these lands was a complex phenomenon which should not be interpreted in terms of 19th century nationalism's bias.

The changes were partial and gradual, and the degree of the fast-paced in some areas industrialization and capitalist development on Polish lands lagged behind the advanced regions of western Europe.

Ethnic shift among the Gaoshan, who had less contact with outsiders due to the inaccessibility of their lands, was more the result of centralized assimilative pressures than gradual social change.

The pace of collectivization was rather gradual until the late 1950s and was generally more thorough in the Czech lands than in Slovakia.

Aided by the Avars and the Bulgars the Slavic tribes started in the 6th century a gradual invasion into the lands of Byzantium.

James was aware that there is a gradual transition between Me and mine and concluded that the empirical self is composed of all that the person can call his or her own, " not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house, his wife and children, his ancestors and friends, his reputation and works, his lands and horses, and yacht and bank-account ".

The gradual conquest of surrounding lands by Andrianampoinimerina and his Merina army was opposed by the Sakalava and other clans, who made several attempt to end Andrianampoinimerina's reign.

It is the gradual unfolding and deepening of this contradiction which creates the inner dialectic of the evolution of the mystery story.

The false reasoning is that a gradual advance prolongs the pain while a swift powerful act gets it over with and leaves the girl pleased with his virility and grateful for his decisiveness in settling the problem once and for all.

The breaking away from the prison house of Brooklyn is gradual.

This situation is greatly due to the gradual disengagement of the state, which makes it very difficult to subsidize film achievements.

Metamorphosis is gradual but by the age of about ten months they have developed a pointed head with sensory tentacles near the mouth and lost their eyes, lateral line systems and tails.

Since the evolution of the Aramaic alphabet out of the Phoenician one was a gradual process, the division of the world's alphabets into those derived from the Phoenician one directly and those derived from Phoenician via Aramaic is somewhat artificial.

frontotemporal dementia / Pick Complex Motor neuron disease, Progressive supranuclear palsy, and Alzheimer's disease ; which is the gradual process of losing the ability to think.

Instead of the gradual transition through the capillaries from arteries to veins that is typical of normal functioning vasculature, AVMs cause direct associations of the arteries and veins.

This gradual transformation is an important consideration when studying the properties of elemental berkelium and its chemical compounds, since the formation of californium brings not only chemical contamination, but also self-radiation damage, and self-heating from the emitted alpha particles.

Humanity is understood to be in a process of collective evolution, and the need of the present time is for the gradual establishment of peace, justice and unity on a global scale.

Abrupt withdrawal can be dangerous, therefore a gradual reduction regime is recommended.

A slow and gradual withdrawal customised to the individual and, if indicated, psychological support is the most effective way of managing the withdrawal.

One example of the gradual change that typifies the common law is the gradual change in liability for negligence.

A common shortcoming of these classification schemes is that they produce distinct boundaries between the zones they define, rather than the gradual transition of climate properties more common in nature.

This version of rasterization has overtaken the old method as it allows the graphics to flow without complicated textures ( a rasterized image when used face by face tends to have a very block-like effect if not covered in complex textures ; the faces are not smooth because there is no gradual color change from one primitive to the next ).

In a historical or geopolitical sense the term usually refers collectively to Christian majority countries or countries in which Christianity dominates or was a territorial phenomenon .“ Christendom is originally a medieval concept steadily to have evolved since the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the gradual rise of the Papacy more in religio-temporal implication practically during and after the reign of Charlemagne ; and the concept let itself to be lulled in the minds of the staunch believers to the archetype of a holy religious space inhabited by Christians, blessed by God, the Heavenly Father, ruled by Christ through the Church and protected by the Spirit-body of Christ ; no wonder, this concept, as included the whole of Europe and then the expanding Christian territories on earth, strengthened the roots of Romance of the greatness of Christianity in the world .”

A sudden transition to democracy, these experts contend, would result in the economic and political upheaval that occurred in the Soviet Union in the late 1980s, and that by focusing on economic growth, China is setting the stage for a more gradual but sustainable transition to a more politically liberal system.

Although " Oedipus's enquiry is based on supernatural, pre-rational methods that are evident in most narratives of crime until the development of Enlightenment thought in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries " it has " all of the central characteristics and formal elements of the detective story, including a mystery sur-rounding a murder, a closed circle of suspects, and the gradual uncovering of a hidden past.

Although a lens can precisely focus at only one distance at a time, the decrease in sharpness is gradual on each side of the focused distance, so that within the DOF, the unsharpness is imperceptible under normal viewing conditions.