Extreme poverty is a major cause, and predictor, of violence.

Academic research has shown that the national ACSI score is a strong predictor of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth, and an even stronger predictor of Personal Consumption Expenditure (PCE) growth.

Similarly, other studies have explored the extent to which shared leadership can predict a team's effectiveness or performance, and have found it to be a significant predictor, and often a better predictor than vertical leadership.

In poorer countries, women s access to paid labor is a better predictor of children s well being than the stability of marriage.

Although history is often a good predictor of future trends, every now and then something fundamental changes that makes for a new pattern.

Results of spirometry are also a good predictor of the future progress of the disease but not as good as the BODE index.

One study that directly compared a type instrument (the MBTI) to a trait instrument (the NEO PI) found that the trait measure was a better predictor of personality disorders.

Now it's bad enough that breast density makes it hard to find a cancer, but it turns out that it's also a powerful predictor of your risk for breast cancer.

For example, in a statistical linear model, it is assumed that a relationship is linear in the parameters, but it may be nonlinear in the predictor variables.

But whatever measures of political qualities and ownership separation we use, the index of employment protection appears to be the best predictor of ownership separation in the wealthy West.

This length of education in the L1 (language 1, first language), was the strongest predictor of both the children's competence and gains in L2, English, and of their school achievement.

Fortunately, there is little reason to believe such dire predictions, or that the market gyrations that have been driving recent headlines represent anything more than short term volatility. After all, equity price movements are a poor predictor of the real economy s performance.

Ron Gutman reviews a raft of studies about smiling, and reveals some surprising results. Did you know your smile can be a predictor of how long you'll live and that a simple smile has a measurable effect on your overall well being? Prepare to flex a few facial muscles as you learn more about this evolutionarily contagious behavior.

Violence in the environment exacerbates the instance of abuse at home whereas, children's and parents' exposure to political violence is the strong predictor of violence in the family. During the earlier periods of the Palestinian struggle, women were able to circumvent some of the traditional restrictions imposed on them to become more involved in the struggle of their people.

In mathematics, a binary relation on a set A is a collection of ordered pairs of elements of A .

A currency serves three functions, providing a means of payment, a unit of account, and a store of value.

A woman with a party of men is a token of peace.

(a) A list of countries which have proclaimed a state of emergency

It may refer to such a version of a text itself, a particular manuscript of the text, or a more complex manifestation of the text (e.g., a group of copies, or a group of excerpts).

The administration of Jowhar consists of a chairman (Mohamed Dheere), a vice chairman, a secretary and a council of elders.

That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,

And all of a sudden, it brought a lot of money and a lot of attention.

A high melting point results from a high heat of fusion, a low entropy of fusion, or a combination of both.

That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,

Cranioplasty is a surgical repair of a defect or deformity of a skull.

a transaction involving the transfer of a debt or assignment of a claim.

Also a member of the Government of the Republic a member of a rural municipality or city government the President of the Republic a member of the Riigikogu or a county governor cannot work as a lay judge.

A of Japan is a city with a population of at least 200,000, and is delegated a subset of the functions delegated to a core city.

a quarter of a millimeter.

It s a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty a kind of leaning over backwards.

A majority is a subset of a set consisting of more than half of the set's elements.

Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.

The meals a pregnant woman consumes constitute a kind of story, a fairy tale of abundance or a grim chronicle of deprivation.

Botswana is a place with a lot of AIDS, Egypt is a place without a lot of AIDS.

A time to love, and a time to hate a time of war, and a time of peace.

A theory of truth for a language can serve as a theory of meaning.

In Southern Saami dialects, however, ' means a heap of stones, a rock or a group of rocks in a stretch of rapids, or even a sauna stove.

And it was almost like a sheet of paper, like a cutout of a childlike drawing of an oil spill or a sun.

Has a penetration of 550 mm RHA, a length of 116 cm and a weight of 18.5 kg.

A person with disabilities is a victim of a situation of disadvantage, because inequality of opportunities becomes obvious.

The offence carries a penalty of a fine or a term of imprisonment of up to two years.

(a) At the request of a majority of members of the Committee

A non theoretical example of a collective decision is enacting a law or set of laws under a constitution.

For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool's speech with a multitude of words.

Death of a spouse The death of a spouse is usually a particularly powerful loss.