While George W. Bush can count on his home state on Election Day, the arithmetic changes twenty minutes out of El Paso, where the interstate slips into New Mexico and twenty minutes later slices through the city of Las Cruces.
When a company institutes an option deferral plan, however, the arithmetic changes.
If, in September, Scots vote to leave the United Kingdom, the political arithmetic will change even more dramatically.This uncertainty makes life difficult for the main party leaders.
The arithmetic fold change is reported.
But the electoral arithmetic has changed since the Conservatives failed to win an outright majority in 2012, and the Chancellor's main concern now seems to be keeping the climate change sceptic fringe of his party onside.
Finally, note that, as is standard practice in the literature (e.g. Blanchard and Katz 1992; Obstfeld and Peri 1998; Dao et al. 2014), net migration flows are determined through the arithmetic linking of (changes in) population with (changes in) employment, unemployment and active population.
Meanwhile the basic arithmetic of climate change mitigation continues to be pushed further and further into the background.
In order to document arithmetic and percentage change in specific pain patterns between uncontrolled state/before treatment (baseline) versus biochemical control of CD (2-year follow-up), we will measure the change in painDETECT scores.
Safety is assessed by pair-wise comparisons of the arithmetic mean (±SD) change in haemoglobin concentration per treatment arm and analysed for superiority to placebo and incidence of adverse events.
