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.

United Nations libraries offer steady, unbiased points of reference and access to essential context.

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

This thirst for unbiased information highlights the dramatic change that the Internet has brought to China s political landscape.

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.

This function may be performed by a judge, a panel of judges, or a jury panel composed of unbiased citizens.

DMOs should guarantee the credibility of the system by providing unbiased information and offering an easy to use, attractive website.

Most economists have very little interaction with the corporate world, and these unbiased economists were no better at forecasting the crisis.

Concerning the elements of the scale methodology, the income measure must give a clear and unbiased picture of overall economic performance.

Meanwhile, Kuwaiti bloggers have joined hands in a new blog which aims to provide an unbiased view and news on the elections.

For example, a newspaper may provide quality, unbiased coverage of the economy, health, and other issues, but still avoid reporting on the government.

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.

Today, good conditions exist for calm and unbiased examination of Russia s past, from the Revolution of 1917 to the days of stagnation under Brezhnev.

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.

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.

The provision of unbiased information on safe sex practices, on the full range of preventive measures, must be made widely available to all young people.

He exercised his right to independent merits review of both adverse decisions and attended hearings before the Refugee Review Tribunal that were fair and unbiased.

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.

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.

Statisticians recommend that experiments compare (at least) one new treatment with a standard treatment or control, to allow an unbiased estimate of the difference in treatment effects.

A declaration of independence should be recognized only if a clear majority (well over 50 plus one of the voters) have freely chosen it, ideally in an unbiased referendum.

But if economists were confined to the ivory tower, we might be unbiased, but we would also be ignorant of practicalities and thus even less capable of predicting problems.

Design of experiments, using blocking to reduce the influence of confounding variables, and randomized assignment of treatments to subjects to allow unbiased estimates of treatment effects and experimental error.

Linked to the United Nations Chernobyl website, it is intended to provide unbiased and reliable information on the effects of the accident and the current situation in the affected areas.

UNIDO is also collaborating with CAB International to develop authoritative and unbiased biosafety knowledge management tools to assist in the implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity Biosafety Clearing House Mechanism.

It s probably the only place on the web where you can find a group of diverse voices who write on issues from the Arab American perspective in a non secular, unbiased manner.

Then she came up and said, They ask me why I teach and I reply, 'Where could I find such splendid company?' There sits a statesman, strong, unbiased, wise another Daniel Webster, silver tongued.

Expressing its conviction that an unbiased and fair approach to human rights issues contributes to the promotion of international cooperation as well as to the effective promotion, protection and realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms,

7. Expresses its conviction that an unbiased and fair approach to human rights issues contributes to the promotion of international cooperation as well as to the effective promotion, protection and realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms

7. Expresses its conviction that an unbiased and fair approach to human rights issues contributes to the promotion of international cooperation as well as to the effective promotion, protection and realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms

7. Expresses its conviction that an unbiased and fair approach to human rights issues contributes to the promotion of international cooperation as well as to the effective promotion, protection and realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms

But I believe that corruption is not the main reason that the profession missed the crisis. Most economists have very little interaction with the corporate world, and these unbiased economists were no better at forecasting the crisis.

He may have been drawn to the period by the fact that he was descended from Oliver Cromwell and Henry Ireton, but his judgements are unbiased, and his appreciations of character reveal fine perception and broad sympathies.

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.

Through all of this, Europe must present itself as an unbiased mediator. If negotiators on both sides view it as a credible broker of a lasting and balanced agreement, they may be more receptive to each other s concessions.

The same is true of the current peacekeeping mechanism, which is far from meeting the recognized standards of an unbiased attitude and should be replaced by an international mechanism of military and civil observers under an OSCE mandate.

This brings me to another point emphasized by the Plan of Action in Section III that the United Nations with the administering Powers ensure that all acts of self determination be preceded by adequate and unbiased campaigns of political education.

6. Stresses the continuing need for unbiased and objective information on the situation of human rights in all countries and the need to present this information in an impartial manner, including through the reports of the special rapporteurs and representatives, independent experts and working groups

All historical dramas are supposed to be unbiased and to say the truth without being biased to the point of view of a certain person or party. And this is an essential and integral part in delivering the ethical values of art and media.

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.