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This work concerns the initial boundary value problem \[ {\partial\over\partial t} \theta(u(t,x))- {\partial\over\partial x}\Biggl(K(u(t,x))\Biggl({\partial\over\partial x} u(t,x)+1\Biggr)\Biggr) =0,\quad (t,x)\in\Omega_T, \] \[ u(0,x) = g(x),\quad x\in\Omega,\quad u(t,0) = a,\quad {\partial\over\partial x} u(t,L) =-1,\quad t\in(0,T), \] where \(\Omega:= (0,L)\), \(L>0\) and \(\Omega_T:= (0,T)\times\Omega\), \(T>0\). It is supposed that the map \(\theta: \mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}^+\) is \(C^4\)-smooth and that there exists a \(\kappa_0<0\) such that \(\theta'(u)>0\) for \(u\in(\kappa_0,0)\), and \(\theta'(u)= 0\) for \(u\not\in(\kappa_0,0)\). The map \(K:\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}^+_0\) is supposed to be \(C^4\)-smooth, too, and there exists a \(\kappa_1<0\) such that \(K(u)=0\) for \(u\in(- \infty,\kappa_1]\), \(K'(u)>0\) for \(u\in(\kappa_1, 0)\), and \(K'(u)= 0\) for \(u\in[0,\infty)\). By means of parabolic regularization a weak solution \(u\in L^2((0,T),H^{1,2}(\Omega))\) is constructed such that for almost all \(t\in(0, T)\) the continuous representative of \(u(t,\cdot)\) is decreasing.