Sentences with phrase «more stable region»

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Within the financials sector, we have found a greater number of potentially attractive opportunities in the region's insurance industry, which we regard as being in relatively better financial shape and operating in a more stable regulatory environment than banks.

In addition to improving the differentiation of Australian products in existing markets, creating safer and more stable products can open up access to niche markets, such as products for remote mining camps, military rations or servicing remote developing regions in South East Asia.

The left - wing positions of Central Scotland's SNP and Labour candidates within their own parties highlight that the political culture of the region's voters may be more stable than dramatic vote swings suggest.

Iran is one of the more stable nations in the region; they have a well - educated population.

In regions with less stable climates, females were laying more eggs that lacked their spouse's DNA, and birds were swapping mates more often between breeding seasons.

The inner Oort cloud, which stretches from a few tens of billions of miles to a few hundreds of billions of miles from the sun, is much more stable than the edge of the region.

Since ES can be modeled essentially outside of the brain or in a computer, researchers can exhaustively test for influential regions that transform a hypersensitive network into a more stable one.

As CaMKII expression has been associated with consolidation and permanence of memories in other brain regions, this switch may reflect the formation of a stronger and more stable opiate reward memory.

What's more, they would confirm the existence of the fabled «island of stability», an as - yet - hypothetical region of the periodic table where there should be stable superheavy elements.

But Stringer and Galway - Witham add that the region may have proved a difficult area to thrive in long term: «There were severe periods of aridity before and after this time, meaning that the region was probably more often a «boulevard of broken dreams» than a stable haven for early humans.»

We hypothesized that this would be sufficient to produce stable increases in progranulin levels in the hippocampus of Grn + / − mice, but were also interested in whether progranulin might be increased in more FTD - relevant regions, such as the frontal cortex.

We include more developed countries because there are more to choose from, and we think many investors prefer stable regions.

In the sheltered central regions of the island, where the dunes are stable and there are more nutrients for growth, diverse plant communities and rainforests are found.

Even if one is optimistic that democracy and the rule of law will spread in the Greater Middle East and that this will lead after a time to more peaceful and stable societies there, it is undeniable that there is substantial risk that for some time the region will be characterized by chaotic change and unpredictable governmental behavior.

The suggested hypothesis, is that in regions devoid of dust (e.g., over the large ocean basins), the formation of cloud condensation nuclei takes place from the growth of small aerosol clusters, and that the formation of the latter is governed by the availability of charge, such that charged aerosol clusters are more stable and can grow while neutral clusters can more easily break apart.

«More than 65 % of the monsoon - influenced glaciers that we observed are retreating, but heavily debris - covered glaciers with stagnant low - gradient terminus regions typically have stable fronts,» the authors write, adding that «In contrast, more than 50 % of observed glaciers in the westerlies - influenced Karakoram region in the northwestern Himalaya are advancing or stable.&raMore than 65 % of the monsoon - influenced glaciers that we observed are retreating, but heavily debris - covered glaciers with stagnant low - gradient terminus regions typically have stable fronts,» the authors write, adding that «In contrast, more than 50 % of observed glaciers in the westerlies - influenced Karakoram region in the northwestern Himalaya are advancing or stable.&ramore than 50 % of observed glaciers in the westerlies - influenced Karakoram region in the northwestern Himalaya are advancing or stable.»

«The question remains as to whether drought would have exacerbated the refugee situation in East Africa had there been slower expansion of population, positive economic growth and more stable political regimes in the region,» said Erin Owain, first author of the study.

Two main geomorphological forms are commonly found in continuous permafrost regions of Eastern Canada: (i) small, shallow, narrow runnel ponds formed over melting ice wedges where peat slumping occurs, and (ii) more stable, slightly larger and deeper, polygonal ponds, which are naturally linked to the active layer freeze - thaw cycles, and can be colonized by aquatic plants and microbial mats (Fig. 1).

Essential services are delivered with compassion and respect to offer vulnerable people in our region the tools they need to build healthier, more stable lives.

The D.C. Metro region is starting to benefit from a more stable, near - term outlook for the federal budget, which has reduced economic uncertainty and led to improved business confidence.