Some of the increase is attributable to changes in methodology.
In fact, only 11% of cost overruns were directly attributable to changes in scope.
These losses represent temporary impairments only and are attributable to changes in interest rates, not a decline in credit quality, the company said.
They point out that Nielsen finally conceded last fall that 40percentt of the falloff in young male viewing was attributable to changes in methodology -- but only after critics pushed it to analyze its system.
Much of this is attributable to changes in human conditioning that once seemed basic -- better nutrition, a clearer understanding of physiology -- but have grown more and more arcane and sophisticated as the years pass.
Perceptual learning in humans was once assumed to be a phenomenon restricted to the early stages of human development or attributable to changes in high-level cognitive processes.
By that time the orchestra and the Proms were in the thick of financial difficulty, largely attributable to changes in the public's musical tastes in the wake of World War I (1914 18).
It is striking that the proportion of births outside marriage has stayed pretty much the same since the mid-1990s; sofe of the decline in lone parenthood is attributable to changes in what people say about their living arrangements rather than actual changes in cohabitation.
The number of children smoking in the United States has gone down over the last decade, according to the Centers for Disease Control (35percentt of high school age teenagers smoked regularly in 1997; the estimate is now about 23percentt), a reduction mostly attributable to changes in public health policy.
Epigenetics refers to the heritable alterations in gene expression, not attributable to changes in DNA sequence.
The third term denotes the change in the joint likelihood attributable to changes in the tetrachoric correlation induced by low-skilled immigration.
