While average global temperature will
still fluctuate from year to year, scientists focus on the decadal trend.
Not exact matches
The US oil - rig count plateaued near the highest level in three
years and showed signs of declining in late March (
to 797), though it
still stood 50 rigs above the
year - end 2017 total.2 This contributed
to expectations for a further increase in American crude production, which has topped 10 mb / d each week since early February, when WTI prices began
to recede
from their intra-quarterly high of US$ 66.14 a barrel.3 The amount of crude in US storage occasionally exceeded weekly estimates given the higher domestic output and
fluctuating net import figures, reigniting fears that US production may thwart OPEC's efforts
to clear global oversupply.
Still, there are growing numbers of skeptics, particularly teachers who over the past several
years have often seen their state ratings
fluctuate from year to year in a complex system that many regard as statistically unstable.
Their population has grown
from about 50,000
to over 300,000 in the last 40
years, and is expected
to ultimately
fluctuate around a
still - unknown carrying capacity, the researchers said.
A significant contributor
to speech and language impairment in this population is the high rate of hearing loss (Laws 2014), particularly
fluctuating conductive hearing loss
from frequent middle ear infections, which has been observed
to affect 93 % of one -
year olds, with 68 %
still affected at five
years (Barr 2011).