Youth are at risk of becoming hardened criminals when they spend long periods in the company of adult prisoners convicted of more serious crimes.

The angle of Earth's axial tilt is relatively stable over long periods of time.

In the east, the climate shows clear continental features winters can be very cold for long periods, and summers can become very warm.

Finally, over very long periods the positions of the stars themselves change, because of the stars' proper motions.

Regardless of what the right explanation is, the history of recent recessions suggests that we should not be surprised that the job recovery is taking time.

Over long periods of time, some mercury recombines with sulfur and is buried in sediments.

Ethiopian music uses a distinct modal system that is pentatonic, with characteristically long intervals between some notes.

During the Antonine and Severan periods, ornate hair and bearding, with deep cutting and drilling, became popular.

Families often lose members during their most productive time of life.

His life was intended to revolve around a strict rule five hours of sleep, six hours of manual work interspersed with a long time of prayer.

Prolonged exposure to pollutants by women workers can lead to deterioration of their health condition, particularly the health of pregnant women or those who are breastfeeding.

1. Recognizes that the Fund's policy of broad diversification of its investments by currency, types of asset classes and geographical areas continues to be the most reliable method of reducing risk and improving returns over long periods of time

Moreover, many African countries hit bottom and rebounded from long periods of civil war and economic decline.

The ultrasonic motor is now used in many consumer and office electronics requiring precision rotations over long periods of time.

Now, however, a new generation of organized criminal groups is emerging from States embroiled in or emerging from protracted periods of conflict.

Many researchers believe that the threat to life and property from NEOs, when averaged over long periods, is comparable to that from more familiar natural hazards such as earthquakes and extreme weather events.

What will it do to a child, he asks, to spend a lot of time with a machine that cannot express genuine empathy, understanding, or compassion?

The nutritional state of the population in some regions is poor and it gets worse at times of drought and flooding.

This list is a long one, but it could easily be much longer.

Periods of slower rise in temperatures are to be expected because of natural variations, it noted, and there may be other causes.

As evidence emerged of widespread corruption in contracts and resource allocation, ministers, bureaucrats, and high level corporate officers were arrested, and some have spent long periods in jail.

Superficial burns may be managed with little more than simple pain relievers, while major burns may require prolonged treatment in specialized burn centers.

These birds are very long lived, and can live upwards of 70 years in captivity, although they only live to about 20 40 years in the wild.

Currently, the UNICEF project Hospital Friends of the Children is in the phase of attempting to provide education to chronically ill children who spend longer times in the hospital.

This is partly because the proportion of single parents living on a minimum income for extended periods of time is above the national average.

Those bodies reflect a cold war era gone by and have long since outlived whatever usefulness they may once have had.

Why Small Booms Cause Big Busts

Armed groups view conflict as a continuum of political and violent irregular operations over a long period that will provide control over local populations.

Persons sentenced to life imprisonment or long prison terms for the commission of crimes shall serve their sentences in specialized prison facilities under special regime arrangements.

We also need instruments that are better suited to delivery of long term international transfers.

The dream of a permanent international court was deferred for far too long.

Macroeconomists celebrated the Great Moderation of the global business cycle, with recessions seeming to become milder and less frequent.

Much of the now common knowledge concerning heart disease, such as the effects of diet, exercise, and common medications such as aspirin, is based on this longitudinal study.

To our surprise, we found that the relative prices of grains, metals, and many other basic goods tended to revert to a central mean tendency over sufficiently long periods.

The best periods in Chinese history were those in which the country was most open both internally and towards the outside world.

For a long time, the railway station at Vesijärvi Harbour was the second busiest station in Finland.

Recovering from more than 20 years of civil war will be a lengthy and a costly process.

Home prices cannot have shown such increases over long time periods, for then no one could afford a home.

Speciation events are important in the theory of punctuated equilibrium, which accounts for the pattern in the fossil record of short bursts of evolution interspersed with relatively long periods of stasis, where species remain relatively unchanged.

Volatile capital flows induce volatility in the recipient economy, making booms and busts more pronounced than they would otherwise be.

Durable products might sometimes cost more, but they don t need to be replaced as frequently.

Excessive lead times

Future sessional periods

One use of economic growth data from the national accounts is in growth accounting across longer periods of time for a country or across to estimate different sources of growth, whether from growth of factor inputs or technological change.

The recruitment of longer term staff would be more geographically representative.