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.

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

Cultural Survival

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

Enhanced child survival

So the challenges of survival are enormous.

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.

Since the patient s duration of survival is calculated from the time of diagnosis, more sensitive screening starts the clock sooner. Survival times can thus appear longer, even if the earlier diagnosis had no real effect on survival.

Survival times can thus appear longer, even if the earlier diagnosis had no real effect on survival.

But the demands of survival supersede political principles.

Indeed, Yeltsin was fearless, and sought not his personal survival, but the survival of the democratic idea that he introduced to Russia.

To be sure, the selfish gene needs to be altruistic insofar as its survival depends on the survival of the kinship group.

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.

The people because of their desperate need for survival

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.

A Survival Strategy for the Eurozone

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.

The puzzle of Berlusconi s survival reflects a wider European conundrum.

For us, it is an issue of security and survival.

The Executive Director also highlighted the Accelerated Child Survival and Development (ACSD) programme as a model, noting the importance of an integrated approach to child survival.

The right to life, survival and development

Millions of people look to the international community for immediate survival.

France s once proud carmakers are fighting for survival.

That is beyond one's control it's about survival.

Focus area 1 Young child survival and development

Focus area 1 Young child survival and development

But, in that case, what ethical value is there in survival? Does the continued survival of the human race have any value in itself, independent of what we achieve or create?

The author submits that article 27 imposes an obligation to restore fundamental rights on which cultural and spiritual survival of a First Nations depends, to a sufficient degree to ensure the survival and the development of the First Nation's culture through the survival and development of the rights of its individual members .

The concern of Rome was that of survival, whether through defense or dominion.

But Americans invested generously in the survival of democratic ideas and leaders.

WASHINGTON, DC Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is a master of political survival.

Millions of people are now without livelihoods and the means for survival.

At the time, survival from death was a luxury.

Currently, the Roque Santeiro Market is means of survival for many Angolan families.

Extended kinship, then, is a survival strategy in the face of economic difficulties.

The survival of small islands of prosperity surrounded by seas of destitution is not viable.

In Ethiopia, UNICEF and WFP jointly launched a three year child survival project linking delivery of healthcare with food distribution to increase the outreach of health services and the survival chances of the most vulnerable children.

Has militant jihadism failed, placing Al Qaeda s survival in doubt?

The Tsolakoglou government has annihilated all traces for my survival.

Longlines are the most significant threat to these species' survival.

A variation of this is the authorities' emphasis on the principle of non interference in the internal affairs of the State and on the right to survival, implying survival of the State and the existing power structure.