Sentences with phrase «proportional increase of»

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Fortune ran numbers to calculate how much extra revenue the U.S. would need to raise, over the next decade, if it lowered the rate of growth in Social Security by one percentage point, reduced increases in Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care spending by a proportional amount, and held discretionary spending below growth in GDP (albeit from the higher base established by the new laws).

It is straightforward to translate this increase in unemployment duration into an effect on the unemployment rate, based on their proportional relationship and adjusted for the share of job losers in overall unemployment, which was about 67 % in December 2009.

But unless you want to mislead, you've got to be careful to also make the points from the graph below, because your increase in wealth is of course proportional to your holdings.

Variable Cost — Usually directly proportional to the (high or low) volume of units being produced by a company or small business; generally, they rise as production increase, and fall as production decreases.

Observing that the rates of clinical depression in the U.S. have tripled in the past quarter century of increased choice, Schwartz echoes Durkheim's proposition that suicide rates are directly proportional to rates of egoism and anomie.

In the case of the increased demand for nursing which seems inversely proportional to the need for nursing, the motives parents often assign to their toddlers are «testing» or «pushing boundaries.»

High sodium intakes increase calcium losses through the urine (a result of the body attempting to keep various mineral levels proportional).

Before the meeting I sent Miliband a document I entitled «Two Lanes on the Third Way» pdf (95.5 kB), in which I argued that since «when we increase the capacity of others to help themselves, we also increase their capacity to help us» the Labour government should embrace proportional representation and economic democracy.

As a supporter of proportional representation, I think that the surest way to increase voter turnout is to increase the value of each vote.

Roger Williams, deputy leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, says the party's General Election manifesto will include proposals to increase Wales's borrowing limit from # 500million to around # 1billion - giving Wales's proportional borrowing powers with Scotland.

Nevertheless, he suggests switching to a system of proportional representation would increase the descriptive representation of women faster than is likely under the current first - past - the - post system.

The Liberal Democrats had long dreamed of having a referendum on proportional representation (PR) that would significantly increase the number of seats they hold at Westminster.

Last time the districts were redrawn, Republicans led the governing body and managed to skew the process in their own favor — leaving most of the underpopulated districts upstate, while the growing populations in the New York City region went unrecognized by a matching increase in proportional representation.

The disparity between the numbers of votes and the number of seats obtained by the smaller parties gave rise to increased calls for replacement of the «first - past - the - post» voting system with a more proportional system.

Very fair point RichardJ but of course any increase in taxes has a far greater proportional effect on those earning lower incomes.

This can lead to an odd situation in which increasing the total number of seats available reduces the representation of an individual constituency, even if its population stays the same (see «Proportional paradox»).

Perinuclear increases in [cAMP] slowly caused the translocation of the freed catalytic subunit into the nucleus to an extent proportional to the percentage of its dissociation from the regulatory subunit.

- Largest proportional increase in opioid prescriptions in Midwestern states; Highest overall frequency of opioids prescribed in Western states; Lowest rates of opioid utilization in Northeast states

For instance, a finding published by researchers at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 2009 said that longer lengths of sitting were directly proportional to an increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease and most causes of death other than cancer.

If the neurons it connects fire in close sequence more frequently when driven by data than when they are firing randomly, the weight of the synapse is increased by an amount proportional to the difference.

Although both drugs caused increases in dopamine release directly proportional to the administered dose, the researchers found that lower doses of the two substances administered simultaneously resulted in an additive effect on the release of dopamine that was not recorded with higher doses.

Depending on how climate impacts unequally affect the rich or poor within every region, the optimal policy may involve a lenient or sharp increase in the price of carbon over the next decades (lenient when impacts are proportional to income, sharp when impacts are concentrated on the poor).

Each multiple of this «background level» denotes a proportional increase in the chance of getting cancer.

In the SIR model, people recover on their own, as if recovering from a cold, so that at any moment the number of recovered people increases at a rate proportional to the number of infected people alone.

As the cross-sectional area of the muscle would be expected to be roughly proportional to the square of the diameter, increased fiber diameter in Mstn − / − mice would correspond to an approximately 43 % increase in fiber mass.

We find that data compression and noise both increase linearly with radial distance from the center of the field of view, with the data compression proportional to star count as well.

Worldwide, lung cancer is the most commonly diagnosed form of cancer.1 In the United Kingdom, its annual incidence is second only to that of breast cancer, accounting for around 39000 new cancer diagnoses annually.2 In countries that have seen a high prevalence of smoking, around 90 % of diagnoses of lung cancer are attributable to cigarette smoking.3 The increased incidence from smoking is proportional to the length and intensity of smoking history.4 On average, a lifetime smoker has a 20-fold increase in the risk of developing lung cancer compared with a lifetime non - smoker.1 Lung cancer is more common in men than in women, closely following past patterns of smoking prevalence, and 80 % of cases are diagnosed in people aged over 60.2

... ratio of retreat to the along - flow stress - coupling length is proportional to the relative increase in speed, consistent with typical ice flow and sliding laws.

Assuming that their result is widely accurate wherever those can be modeled, and PR rate is proportional to the rate of ascension of air, the increase of SH due to a 0.5 C increase of surface mean temperature should be approximately 6 % of 24 W / m ^ 2 = 1.4 W / m ^ 2.

Infant age correlates with certain changes in the microbiota across the cohort: Staphylococcus and Corynebacterium are associated with the first few months of life while Moraxella and the uncharacterised Flavobacteriaceae increase in proportional abundance with age.

This, we can explain to learners, is an example of a proportional relationship for two reasons: 1) When the number of clicks is zero, the length of the lead is zero; and 2) each click produces a constant increase in lead length: 2 millimeters.

Unlike Basic Grants and Concentration Grants, Targeted Assistance Grants are distributed per student to the district in a proportional manner as the percentage of children in poverty increases.

Charter schools are less likely to engage in this practice, but traditional districts tend to see the costs of absence as lower than the costs of lengthening teachers» contract year with a proportional increase in salary.

(8) And finally, a town can not cut funding to the network school — even if they have to cut their own school budget — and if they do get additional state funds or raise taxes to fund their remaining schools they MUST provide the Commissioner's Network school the same proportional increase in funding even though the local board of education doesn't control the network school nor is the network school unionized.

Although the number of male primary school teachers in Australia is not declining — the number of full time male primary teachers in Australia has remained fairly constant over the last 25 years — the number of female primary teachers has increased dramatically, causing a proportional decline of men.

The equation from before tells us that stopping distance is inversely proportional to the decelerating force, so with the above data, a doubling of mass results in a -12 % decrease in µ, and therefore a +14 % increase in stopping distance.

Such payment increases the number of shares each holder owns but does not alter a shareholder's proportional ownership of the company.

As discussed in paragraph 17 of this Ruling, even though your excess transfer balance is disregarded for the transitional period up to 31 December 2017, your transfer balance has still exceeded your transfer balance cap and you will not be entitled to increase your transfer balance cap as a result of proportional indexation.

The statement that the sensitivity is proportional to the time constant would seem obvious since for a given rate of heat imput, it will take longer to increase the temperature 5C than for an increase of 1C.

The 3 % per year is the amount by which the emissions are increasing... and (assuming that the fraction of this that stays in the atmosphere is constant) this would then be essentially proportional to the second derivative of the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere with respect to time.

The power needed to push an object through a fluid increases as the cube of its velocity while «air drag» is approximately proportional to the square of velocity.

Re 392 Chris Dudley — I don't understand what you mean by R ^ 2T ^ 4 — and there should be something about how optical depth is proportional to R, and also, if you're going a significant distance toward the center of such an object, there is the issue of spherical geometry; if the optical thickness is large enough across small changes in radius, then you don't need to account for the spherical geometry in the calculation of the flux per unit area as a function of the temperature profile and optical thickness; however, the flux per unit area outward will drop as an inverse square, except of course within the layers that are being heated through a different process (SW heating for a planet, radioactivity, latent and sensible heat loss associated with a cooling interior, gravitational potential energy conversion to enthalpy via compression (adiabatic warming) and settling of denser material under gravity (the later both leads to compression via increased pressure via increased gravity within the interior, and also is a source of kinetic energy which can be converted to heat)...

Which begs the question if time can go faster and slower, implying an increase in entropy, con't it be viewed instead as having to be balanced out by the increasing sphere of proportional influence on surrounding matter.

We show here that weak bases bypass the Na — H ion exchange, cause both the internal and external pH changes directly by their passive diffusion into the egg, and that the initial increase in the rate of protein synthesis is proportional to the amount of weak base entering the egg.

When angular momentum is transferred the energy of the moon increases slightly, while the rotational energy of the Earth decreases much more, because the ratio of energy to angular momentum is inversely proportional to the effective radius of movement, which is much larger for the orbit of the moon than it's for the Earth.

For instance the above mentioned small increases of mean temperature would be important at the northern margin of cultivation, and the growth of favourably situated plants is directly proportional to the carbon dioxide pressure (Brown and Escombe, 1905): In any case the return of the deadly glaciers should be delayed indefinitely.

``... the combustion of fossil fuel... is likely to prove beneficial to mankind in several ways... For instance... small increases of mean temperature would be important at the northern margin of cultivation and the growth of... plants is directly proportional to the carbon dioxide pressure.»

It is because of these effects of partial saturation that the radiative forcing is not proportional to the increase in the carbon dioxide concentration but shows a logarithmic dependence.

I then fitted a simple model, a sine curve + a constant rate for warming from the LIA and an exponential for a contribution that is directly proportional to the rate of fossil fuel use that has been increasing roughly exponentially.

willb, just increasing the CO2 concentration at the same temperature increases the atmosphere's longwave emission which is just proportional to the number of CO2 molecules.