Sentences with phrase «declined during the study period»

This means that the average reflectivity of remaining sea ice has also declined during the study period.

Not exact matches

In Myanmar, 38 % of forest cover is intact forest and during the study period the authors found that this intact forest declined by 11 % (more than 2 million hectares) with an annual loss of 0.94 %.

The declining rate of growth in health care expenditure in the USA during this period is especially striking because, unlike the other five countries studied, during this period the USA started major reforms to expand health care coverage to a wider proportion of the population.

According to Brooks, the decline in public support for government solutions to social problems during the Great Recession (2008 - 2010) was among the largest two - year changes during the 26 - year - period (1984 - 2010) he and co-author Jeff Manza, a Professor of Sociology at New York University, considered in their study.

In a placebo controlled double - blind study of frail elderly patients, treatment with NAC doubled the increase in knee extensor strength during a 6 - week program of physical exercise and slowed the subsequent decline during a 6 - week follow - up period.

The period studied was 2003 — 2016, which includes the market decline during the Great Recession.

Although the finding that shelter intake declined in association with the inception of the voucher program, the presence of extraneous (confounding) factors associated both with time and shelter intake can not be ruled out, including migration into and out of the county (although the human population actually increased during the study period).

McNeil speaks of why he became interested in art; his early influences; becoming interested in modern art after attending lectures by Vaclav Vytlacil; meeting Arshile Gorky; the leading figures in modern art during the 1930s; his interest in Cézanne; studying with Jan Matulka and Hans Hofmann; his experiences with the WPA; the modern artists within the WPA; the American Abstract Artists (A.A.A.); a group of painters oriented to Paris called The Ten; how there was an anti-surrealism attitude, and a surrealist would not have been permitted in A.A.A; what the A.A.A. constituted as abstract art; a grouping within the A.A.A. called the Concretionists; his memories of Léger; how he assesses the period of the 1930s; the importance of Cubism; what he thinks caused the decline of A.A.A.; how he assesses the period of the 1940s; his stance on form and the plastic values in art; his thoughts on various artists; the importance of The Club; the antipathy to the School of Paris after the war; how Impressionism was considered in the 40s and 50s; slides of his paintings from 1937 to 1962, and shows how he developed as an artist; the problems of abstract expressionism; organic and geometric form; the schisms in different art groups due to politics; his teaching techniques; why he feels modern painting declined after 1912; the quality of A.A.A. works; stretching his canvases, and the sizes he uses; his recent works, and his approaches to painting.

There has been a decline in the average total seasonal rain during the period 1980 - 2011, according to a new study.

The study also provides an explanation for seemingly incongruous climate trends, such as how sea ice can continue to decline during this period of stalled warming, and when the sea ice decline might reverse.

The American Wind Energy Association, which also supports a federal carbon cap on existing plants, recently published a study that found that consumer rates declined over the past five years in the 11 states that use the most wind, while rates increased collectively in all the other states during that same time period.

The study's author suggests various theories for the decline in the success rate, including that courts are seeking to give greater protection to freedom of expression; during the 2003 - 13 period, plaintiffs were far more successful in cases involving «new media» (email or internet), with a 62 % success rate (more than double the success rate for cases between 2003 - 13 considered as a whole).

Based on the above - described empirical study, during the period of aggressive downside correction between 16 December 2017 and 13 February 2018, the volatility of the equally weighted portfolio of five cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin) was 6 % less compared to an equal amount invested in Bitcoin, versus a decline in volatility down to 10 % over the entire period of analysis.

Longitudinal studies (e.g. Doss et al., 2009; Lawrence et al., 2008) show that new parents experience sharp declines in relationship satisfaction, whereas couples without children do not show these declines during the same time period.