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A study released last week by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and the Northwest Evaluation Association found that "improvements in passing rates on state tests can largely be explained by declines in the difficulty of those tests".

The experiment investigated the extent to which risky street-crossing decisions by older pedestrians can be explained by declines in functional abilities.

The decreases in estrogens we observed in overweight and obese postmenopausal women with sustained weight loss may be explained by declines in intra-abdominal body fat, which is the predominant site for estrogen production in postmenopausal women [ 54, 55].

Most of its troubles can be explained by declining sales and prices of LCDs and LCD televisions, which account for something like 40% of its revenue.

David Card, an economist at the University of California at Berkeley, reckons that about 15% of the increase in wage differentials among men since the early 1980s, though none of the increase among women, can be explained by declining unionism.

A sweeping review of shifts in the labor force since 1960 suggests that a sizable portion of the national weight gain can be explained by declining physical activity during the workday.

A great deal of the cognitive decline due to aging can be explained by decline in working memory (WM).

19 Therefore, the observed association between long time spent in bed and increased CRP levels might be explained by declining health status.

Therefore, the reduction in CIMT during the first year after transplant may be explained by the significant reduction in HbA1c consequent to restoring endogenous insulin secretion through transplant (11), and subsequent progression of CIMT may be explained by declining islet graft function and glycemic control after the first year (9).

This fall in incidence may be explained by the decline in H. pylori infection and associated atrophic gastritis.

The decline of the annual incidence of the group of serious infections in 1999 can therefore be explained by the decline of annual incidence of pneumonia.