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CONTRACTION. An abbreviation; a mode of writing or printing by which some of the letters of a word are omitted. See Abbreviations.

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The domestic economy is expected to fall deeper into a contraction by 1,7 per cent during 2019 before recovering to positive growth in 2020, the Bank of Namibia (BoN) said.

Domestic economy expected to fall into deeper contraction

The mum-of-four first had contractions at 19 weeks and was diagnosed by doctors as having an irritable uterus.

New mum goes into labour EIGHT times during one pregnancy; Luton mum Kayleigh Redmond suffered full-blown contractions for up to seven days at a time after being diagnosed with an irritable uterus

Mothers-to-be should be aware how to differentiate true labor from false labor or Braxton-Hicks contractions. Here are some of them: shortening of the timed interval between each contraction; increasing intensity of contractions as labor progresses; and, increasing duration of each contraction, about 30-70 seconds.

Five signs of labor

'While waiting [for] more intense contractions, watching videos of this boy is helping me get through,' stated Villania.

LOOK: Iya Villania gives birth to second son Leon

In this paper we consider the case that [f.sub.1], ..., [f.sub.N] are weak contractions. Iterated function systems driven by weak contractions are considered in [AF04, Ha85-1, Ha85-2, L04], for example.

Uterine Tissue Preparation and Recording of In Vitro Contractions

Chronic ingestion of bisphenol A decreases the cholinergically evoked and spontaneous contractions of rat uterus in vitro

Phase synchronization index in the alpha (8~12Hz) and beta (15~35Hz) frequency bands, as well as power, fractal dimension, and sample entropy during pre- and postfatigue contractions were tested using paired sample t-tests.

Antagonist Muscle Prefatigue Increases the Intracortical Communication between Contralateral Motor Cortices during Elbow Extension Contraction

As shown in Figures 6(a) and 6(b), both TEA (a nonselective blocker of [K.sup.+] channels) and paxilline (a selective blocker of BK channels) enhanced ACh-induced contractions, which were relaxed drastically by CEAA.

Chloroform Extract of Artemisia annua L. Relaxes Mouse Airway Smooth Muscle

The neuromuscular activity during muscle contraction has been studied in depth by means of electromyography (EMG) and mechanomyography (MMG) signals (e.g., [1, 2]).

Age and Sex Effects on the Active Stiffness of Vastus Intermedius under Isometric Contraction

Contractions and symbols are easily located in both print-to-braille and braille-to-print formats.

Burns Braille Guide: A Quick Reference to Unified English Braille

Research conducted under NCHRP Project 24-34 clearly indicates that of the three primary scour components (pier, contraction, and abutment), the contraction scour equations exhibit, by far, the least amount of reliability in terms of 1) the conditional probability that the contraction scour estimate will be exceeded during the design event, and 2) the unconditional probability that the contraction scour estimate will be exceeded during the life of the bridge.

Clear-Water and Live-Bed Scour in Long Contractions

Specifically, this study proposed that the ligaments of scallop species that show a vigorous escape response, as reflected by high rates of phasic contractions, should have greater resilience than those of species with a weaker escape response.

When behavior and mechanics meet: scallop swimming capacities and their hinge ligament