When air rises, moist air cools at a lower rate than dry air.

Maintaining the same number of scan lines per field (and frame), the lower line rate must yield a lower field rate.

The total fertility rate (TFR) in 2013 was estimated at 1.42 children born per woman, which is lower than the replacement rate of 2.1.

They can t lower the exchange rate to aid exports.

Others estimate a lower, but still alarming, rate of 30 .

This increases developing countries exports and reduces their import demand (or increases it at a lower rate than export growth).

Literacy was estimated at 92.9 in 2007 this rate is lower in rural areas (80.3 ) than in urban areas (96.3 ).

He evidently does not recognize that a system that taxes speculation at a lower rate than hard work distorts the economy.

As expected, the rate of reported convictions, which varied significantly, was lower than the rate of reported investigations or prosecutions.

Why should those who make their income by gambling in Wall Street s casinos be taxed at a lower rate than those who earn their money in other ways. Capital gains should be taxed at least at as high a rate as ordinary income.

Fears of future wealth taxes could discourage entrepreneurship and lower the saving rate.

And with that lower saving rate will come a smaller current account surplus.

The lower implementation rate during 2004 was attributable to a combination of factors.

Since WWII, the US unemployment rate has averaged 8 when the short term nominal T bill rate is 2 or lower.

The unemployment rate, now at 7 , is slightly lower than it was even at the peak of the last boom, in autumn 2008, and is expected to decline.

No less important are sex education programmes, aimed at reducing the number of teen pregnancies and at bringing the Nicaraguan people, especially young people, to a point where the demographic growth rate is lower than the rate of economic growth.

Bank interest rates on savings are lower than the inflation rate and many multiples lower than the rates promised by the informal sector.

Those who are screened, diagnosed, and treated experience a lower rate of cardiovascular events.

In the provinces, this rate is lower, around 200,000 to 300,000 đồng per student.

The growth rate will be lower if earnings are used to buy back shares.

The combination of lower production costs in the US and Europe s world class finishing capabilities is a recipe for first rate products at competitive prices.

)At any rate, all scholars accept that during the 11th century, Pagan consolidated its hold of Upper Burma, and established its authority over Lower Burma.

The overall literacy rate for women is undoubtedly low much lower than that for men.

They had a lower rate of school dropouts and a better academic performance than men.

Fixed mortgages, with interest rates at 6 , were replaced with variable rate mortgages, whose interest payments were tied to the lower short term T bill rates.

Multipliers are higher perhaps around 1.7 when the nominal interest rate is at its lower bound of zero, as it was during 2009... (and is today).

The net luminosity decay rate is lower, at 0.0075 magnitudes per day for Type II P, compared to 0.012 magnitudes per day for Type II L.

Of course, the rate of increase of the price of oil in euros during the past year was lower than the rate of increase in dollars.

Given a lower growth rate, China s fiscal position will deteriorate gradually at first, and then rapidly with the public debt GDP ratio eventually rising to an unsustainable level.

A lower corporate tax rate would weaken this justification. Moreover, pension funds, retirement plans, and non profit organizations, which receive about 50 of all corporate dividends, do not pay tax on these earnings, and would benefit from a lower corporate tax rate.

Whereas Germany s unemployment rate is now a bit lower than in the last boom, the French rate is significantly higher than in the last slump (2004 2005).

But what China really needs is a greater effort to promote domestic consumption and lower the savings rate.

Or China can try to maintain an exchange rate that is slightly lower than it would be otherwise.

The basic finding is that the contraceptive prevalence rate is lower among rural women compared to urban women.

In November 2008, before the annual winter rise, unemployment in the Stuttgart Region stood at 3.8 , 0.1 lower than the rate for Baden Württemberg, in February 2009 it was 4.7 .

Fire ProtectionA National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) study from July 2011 shows that occurrence of fires is lower in manufactured housing and the injury rate is lower in manufactured housing.

Using RMB appreciation as the primary tool to fight inflation implies accepting a temporarily higher unemployment rate now in exchange for a permanently lower unemployment rate in the future.

Every forecaster recognizes that the actual growth rate may be higher or lower than the number that he states.

By contrast, in a deep, long lasting recession, with the central bank s policy rate at the zero lower bound (ZLB), a well timed, sensible fiscal response can, in principle, be helpful.

After all, if a country s debt GDP ratio is to decline without austerity, the interest rate that it pays on its debt must be lower than its GDP growth rate.

And the fact that China s market exchange rate was far lower (i.e., more yuan per dollar) than the earlier PPP exchange rate had been interpreted as evidence of huge undervaluation.

If prices fall at a rate of 1 , could they fall at a rate of 10 ?

Likewise, home prices declined at a very rapid rate of 18.7 in the 12 months to March, which is not meaningfully lower than the 19 fall over the 12 months to February.

The utilization of working hours among rural women at working age has increased rather slowly, 73.71 in 2000, 75.25 in 2002 and 77.74 in 2003, lower than the overall rate of 77.94 .

A lower rate would strengthen incentives for investment and job creation in the US, and weaken incentives for tax avoidance.