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Discover LudwigThe phrase "age lag" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the difference in age between individuals or groups, particularly in relation to development or maturity.
Example: "The study revealed a significant age lag among participants, indicating that younger individuals often took longer to reach developmental milestones."
Alternatives: "age difference" or "age gap".
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(3) The capability to generate files for (a) plotting histograms, (b) making PD plots for distributions of grain age, lag time, or spontaneous track density, (c) making radial plots for grain-age distributions, and (d) input to Jandel's PEAKFIT program, a commercial program that produces results similar to GAUSSFIT and includes a graphical display of those results.
A developmental dyslexia group (DD) comprised 17 children with a chronological reading age lag greater than two years [ 51] and Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices non-verbal intelligence score within one standard deviation of the mean.
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According to the report by market research agency Childwise, between the ages of 11 and16 the gap grows to 30%, with boys receiving an average weekly income of £17.80 and girls of the same age lagging behind with £12.50.
Two different lags were selected by the stepwise procedures for the following variables: population having access to improved sanitation facilities (lags 0 and 4), adolescent fertility rate (lags 0 and 4), public health expenditure per capita (lags 2 and 4), perceived level of corruption (lags 0 and 4), and mean number of years in school for women of reproductive age (lags 2 and 4).
A relatively uniform terminal-Pleistocene loess (Paw Paw), deposited prior to the Early Archaic period, buried Clovis-age lag artifacts and other archaeological remains older than 13.2 ka.
However, application of genomics to study senescence and aging lagged behind.
By dichotomisation on age and lag in the Norwegian cohort, we found that HPV 16 seropositive men above 45 years of age had an increased risk (OR=16; 95% CI=2.6 96) as did subjects with less than 10 years lag (OR=6.9; 95% CI=1.7 27).
In the Norwegian part of the study, ORs were also calculated dichotomising on age and lag time until cancer diagnosis.
Second, the influence of several confounders, as age, the lag between baseline and follow-up, or attrition rate, could affect conclusions of this review.
Deaths from all mental disorders were not associated with extreme or severe events for the all-ages group but were associated with single day extreme and severe events in the under 65 years age group lag 2 days (99thpercentile, lag2 (2.84: 1.24 – 6.52) and 95thpercentile, lag2 (1.53: 1.10 – 2.14)).
Their microbiological age soon lags behind their biological age.
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