«Back of the envelope [calculations] suggest that what we're going to lose from this spill is nowhere close to
the background rates of wetland loss,» says Alex Kolker, a coastal geologist with the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium in Chauvin.
Background rates of breastfeeding initiation: intermediate: prevalence of breastfeeding in 1985 = 64 % at birth and 26 % at 4 months
Background rates of breastfeeding initiation: at hospital discharge, 54 % of babies were exclusively breastfed and 6 % were receiving breast and formula milk.
Background rates of breastfeeding initiation for Canada: intermediate, however, baseline prevalence of «ever breastfed» in Ontario 90.6 % (WHO Global Data Bank on Infant and Young Child Feeding accessed 12 Oct 2011)
Background rates of breastfeeding initiation: low Inclusion criteria: women at 28 weeks» gestation attending for antenatal care at a GP practice Exclusion criteria: not described
Background rates of breastfeeding initiation: intermediate.
Background rates of breastfeeding initiation: 92.2 % of mothers were exclusively breastfeeding at the study site before discharge.
Where
background rates of «ever breastfed» were not reported, we have used either rates published in the WHO Global Data Bank on Infant and Young Child Feeding (www.who.int/nutrition/databases/infantfeeding/countries/en/index; accessed July 2016), or those published in the supplementary material to Victora 2016, and for the two studies from Scotland (Hoddinott 2009; Muirhead 2006), we used www.isdscotlandarchive.scot.nhs.uk/isd/1914 (accessed November 2016).
Background rates of breastfeeding initiation: data from an inner - city Cleveland clinic with a similar population reported lower rates with any and exclusive breastfeeding at 5 days at 40.8 % and 22.0 %, respectively.
Now research on these three rivers, and seven other large river basins in the US Southeast, has, for the first time, precisely quantified
this background rate of erosion.
It's not a good idea to look at the 2017 yoy increase number of 2.13 ppm and believe that number is close to
the background rate of increase.
I tend / try to look past the EN / LN wobble and maintain a read on
the background rate of increase.
I think the decadal
background rate of increase is in the 2.4 to 2.5 ppm range at this time.
I think it's interesting to track CO2 and CO2e, but the tracks have the periodic ups and downs related to LN and EN conditions, so I do bote calculations to attempt to smooth those out for the purpose of estimating
the background rate of increase in CO2 in the atmosphere.
My reservations about EN LN discussion center around how those wobbles in the relentless trend get spun into discussion of
the background rate of increase of CO2 in the atmosphere and oceans.
The first is basically that mentioned by Greg Simpson in point 7; the seasonal flux in biomass seems to exceed
the background rate of change of CO2 in the atmosphere by a large enough factor that it probably exceeds the total emissions.
Specifically, smoothing sea - level data (adjusting for natural variability of ENSO) over the past century fits most closely with a 4th degree polynomial model, and there has very likely not been any slowing in the longer - term
background rate of sea level rise over the period of the tropospheric «pause».
The oceans control
the background rate of energy flow from ocean to air via The Hot Water Bottle Effect and it is the energy flow from ocean to air (supplemented to a miniscule extent by the greenhouse effect) that drives the rate of evaporation by creating varying temperature differentials between sea surface and air at the surface.
Currently we are seeing some stress on some species, and the overall
background rate of extinction appears to be rising.
The advocate scientists only want to focus on the bad effects of warming, some large percentage of which is naturally occurring at a background rate anyway (6mm / year
background rate of sea level rise given 120 meters over 20,000 years — that is double the current rate of 3mm / year rise and how much of that is natural?).
R Gates the Skeptical Warmist: Currently we are seeing some stress on some species, and the overall
background rate of extinction appears to be rising.
That background rate of change was never a consideration that was needed through most of the 20th century.
Not exact matches
In fact, hundreds
of other companies out there are creating credit
ratings and assigning scores to individuals, some even include
background checks.
First, some
background: In December, the Republican - appointed Nevada Public Utilities Commission (PUC) decided in favor
of the state's biggest electricity provider and created a new
rate class for rooftop solar customers.
For
background, the lawsuits claimed that after declining a request to purchase advertising on Yelp, a number
of positive reviews from businesses» listings on the reviews site mysteriously disappeared, downgrading the company's
rating on the site.
With over 20 years
of global market experience, Alessandro's strong
background in the field
of interest
rates, central banks and European financial regulations helps to further strengthen AXA IM's global investment strategy and asset allocation.
As a result, it's less likely that educational
background or lack
of career ambition can explain the different
rate of advancement.
The Bank
of Canada has cut its policy
rate by a cumulative 75 basis points so far this year (in three moves) to 2 per cent, against a
background of weak GDP growth and subdued inflation.
Against this
background, the Reserve Bank
of New Zealand cut official interest
rates by 25 basis points in both June and July to 5.0 per cent.
The Board's decision to increase the cash
rate in March was taken against the
background of strong demand pressures combined with a significant pick - up in upstream prices during the second half
of 2004.
However, bond yields have been mostly driven by US developments, where bond yields appear unusually low against a
background of strong growth, rising inflation and increasing short - term interest
rates.
It also confirms more than any other evidence that the universe had a beginning and expanded at a
rate faster than the speed
of light within less than a trillion
of a trillion
of a trillion
of a second — less than 10 ^ -35
of a second —
of the Big Bang by detecting the miniscule «light polarizations» called B - Modes caused by the Gravitational Waves — which were theorized in 1916 by Albert Einstein in his Theory
of General Relativity but never detected before —
of the Inflation
of the Big Bang which are embedded in the Cosmic Microwave
Background Radiation — CMB or CMBR that was discovered by American scientists back in 1964.
«These and many other considerations are inconsistent with the
RATE hypothesis
of «intrinsic radiocarbon» but are consistent with contamination and
background.
At any
rate, in some
of the colleges there still remains an antireligious tradition, which began as a reaction against the earlier religious
background of their institutions.
But instead we are compiling it up to NFL concussions and not a larger picture
of rates,
background, and other data.
The collaboration
of Ms. Gerstner, a first -
rate, professional journalist with a
background in reporting on sports science, and Dr. Kutcher, one
of the nation's top concussion researchers and clinicians who lives, breathes and eats concussions every day for a living as the National Director
of The Sports Neurology Clinic at The CORE InstituteTM in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and for whom I and my staff at MomsTEAM have enormous respect, is a match made in publishing heaven.
We investigated substantial heterogeneity for all four outcomes with subgroup analyses for the following covariates: who delivered care, type
of support, timing
of support,
background breastfeeding
rate and number
of postnatal contacts.
Background The incidence
of sudden infant death syndrome has decreased in the United States as the percentage
of infants sleeping prone has decreased, but persisting concerns about the safety
of supine sleeping likely contribute to prone sleeping prevalence
rates that remain higher than 10 %.
Factors that may have contributed to the success for women who exclusively breastfed were face - to - face contact (rather than contact by telephone), volunteer support, a specific schedule
of four to eight contacts and high numbers
of women who began breastfeeding in the community or population (
background rates).
Several factors may have also improved results for women practising exclusive breastfeeding, such as interventions delivered with a face - to - face component, high
background initiation
rates of breastfeeding, lay support, and a specific schedule
of four to eight contacts.
Limitations: Conclusions from the study are limited in their application to the population
of expectant fathers by the low response
rate and the low numbers
of low - income, ethnic -
background, and indigenous fathers in the sample.
«And we can not walk away from this issue until obesity
rates drop for children
of every age and every
background.
This rise and variation in
rates is due to the use
of reproductive techniques, and is partly accounted for by more births to older women and more multiple births in women from more affluent
backgrounds (Smith 2014).
For cessation
of any breastfeeding at up to six months, there is no evidence
of a difference in the effectiveness
of the intervention according to the
background breastfeeding
rate (test for subgroup differences: Chi ² = 0.56, df = 2 (P = 0.76), I ² = 0 %; Analysis 5.1).
Therefore, for the review's four primary outcomes we carried out subgroup analysis to explore the impact
of interventions involving different types
of supporter (professional versus lay person, or both); types
of support (face - to - face versus telephone support or both); timing
of support (antenatal and postnatal versus postnatal alone); whether the support was proactive (scheduled contacts) or reactive (women needed to request support); and whether support interventions had similar effects in settings with different
background breastfeeding initiation
rates (low, medium or high
background rates).
I think is fairly described as a very robust Labour tribalist from a trade union organiser
background (I would place him very much on the right
of the party, though you may well approve
of his rebelling on ID cards, 90 days detention, the 10p tax
rate and other more left / liberal rebellions, which shows he is not easily pigeonholed).
Meanwhile, the then - current President Barack Obama was ranked 15th out
of 43, with high
ratings for imagination, communication ability and intelligence and a low
rating for
background (family, education and experience).
Using differential interest
rates rising with earnings as a means
of providing for a more progressive system is less fair than a graduate tax, a graduate contribution or general taxation because those from wealthy
backgrounds will have smaller debts as their families can afford to pay up front.
Another section
of the resolution links New York's strict gun laws to the state's low
rates of gun crime, while criticizing some state senators who have voted against «common sense» gun laws like a ban on bump stocks, improved
background checks and state funding for research on gun violence.
All this would be testing enough against a
background of falling inflation, lower interest
rates, and economic recovery.