“…The artinian line was first used towards sufficient conditions for the existence of almost split sequences in subcategories by Auslander and Smalø [5] in 1981; a decade later, this line obtained an important boost through its applications to homology and tilting theory, first observed by Auslander-Reiten [3]. Meanwhile, the latter approach was pursued separately by Asensio Mayor, Belshoff, Enochs, Guil-Asensio, Martínez Hernández, Rada, Saorín, del Valle, Xu, and others (see [2,7,20,39,41,42,52,53]). Finally, we mention that in [38], Levy independently used minimal approximations from a category of particulary accessible objects, in order to study modules over pullback rings.…”