These figures approximate the range of catastrophic natural mass movements and confirm land terracing as an antrophic geomorphic processes which is rapidly reshaping the terrain morphology.
As the program proceeds beyond the experimental stage, United Parcel plans to start offering about 6,000 nonunion early retirees and their spouses a range of options, including a safety-net catastrophic coverage policy, said Al Rapp, United Parcel's corporate health manager.
A range of thresholds have been used to denote catastrophic healthcare expenditure, such as >40%% of discretional income [ 15] or >10%% of total income [ 16].
10 Patients were asked to rate the frequency with which they experience particular catastrophic thoughts during an episode of pain, and the overall score is calculated with a range of 0 (almost never) to 5 (almost always), with higher scores reflecting more frequent endorsement of catastrophic thoughts.
Psychological theories have identified a range of variables contributing to health anxiety, including, dysfunctional illness beliefs, catastrophic misinterpretation, somatosensory amplification and neuroticism.
Stroke and hip fracture represent major risk factors for the onset of progressive and catastrophic disability [ 1] and high-impact triggers of a range of complications known to be significantly associated with increased mortality [ 2- 4].
This fundamental role of NAC is reflected in the catastrophic phenotype of null mutations affecting the βNAC-coding sequence gene in a range of species.
But the maneuvering over a step that both parties acknowledge must be taken to avert a catastrophic default is also evidence of how the two parties are at loggerheads over a range of economic issues.
This gave a range of changes that were either more or less regular or incremental from year-to-year (and thus potentially manageable) or catastrophic.
