]; however, there was an increased trend in PPI use with age particularly among adults aged 65 years and older (USA: 37.8% (≥ 65 years) vs. 2.08% (18– < 25 years) [8]; Iceland: ~ 40.0% (≥ 80 years) vs. ~ 8.0% (18–39 years) [...
Chapter © 2024 2.1 Background The month of September 2020 became an historic moment when Nature registered high on the political agenda of global leaders. “We will protect our planet” became a call of governments in their United Nations (UN) 75th Anniversary Declaration [1]. 124 member ...
Chapter Google Scholar Okamura M (2018) Jōmon no rettō bunka [The culture of the Jōmon archipelago]. Yamakawa, Tokyo Pfoundes C (1881) The Japanese people; their origin; and the race as it now exists. J Anthropol Inst Great Brit Ireland 10:225–230 Article Google Scholar Pomeranz ...
3.4.1Background is a term used to describe the contemporary increase in the average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans. Although local temperatures fluctuate naturally, the rising trend that is known as “global warming” can be separated from historical and/or pre-historicalthat hav...
we lift our three-month expectation to USD 79/bbl. In the long run, however, we expect WTI oil to trend lower on (1) weaker oil demand from a slowing global economy, (2) increasingly bearish investor positioning in anticipation of a recession, and (3) the build-up of inventories as ...
Based on data reported as of year-end 2023, private markets fundraising fell 22 percent from the prior year to just over $1 trillion, the largest such drop since 2009 (Exhibit 1).The impact of the fundraising environment was not felt equally among GPs. Continuing a trend that emerged in...
In recent years, a sizable portion of novel benchmarks in key domains such as NLP quickly trended towards saturation1. Benchmarks that are nearing or have reached saturation are problematic, since either they cannot be used for measuring and steering progress any longer, or—perhaps even more...
Chapter 3, the Perforated Mulch Sheet competitive situation, sales quantity, revenue, and global market share of top manufacturers are analyzed emphatically by landscape contrast. Chapter 4, the Perforated Mulch Sheet breakdown data are shown at the regional level, to show the sales quantity, ...
Using a discipline called systems thinking, Chapter 1 introduces the concept of viewing the crisis as a system of interacting parts in which effects were also causes and solutions exacerbated the problems they were trying to solve. This method deviates from a traditional linear approach that ties ...
xiv CHAPTER 1 DEFINITION CHAPTER 1: DEFINITION KEY POINTS: • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a preventable and treatable disease with some significant extrapulmonary effects that may contribute to the severity in individual patients. Its pulmonarycomponent is characterized by airflow ...