In sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, expansion of the irrigated arable area is expected to be low in absolute terms (an additional 2 and 4 million ha, respectively), though these represent large proportionate increases (of 40 and 22percentt) (FAO, 2003c).
Similarly, some revenues may be low in absolute terms but they could enable access to other "goods" (such as training or social status) or, because of their regularity and predictability, could act as income "stabilizers" and therefore be considered important by health workers.
Policy is accommodative not when interest rates are low in absolute terms, but when they are low relative to the market-clearing rate.
Their paper concludes that ideological segregation online is "low in absolute terms, higher than most offline media (excluding national newspapers) and significantly lower than segregation" in most normal social interactions people have.
We find that ideological segregation of online news consumption is low in absolute terms, higher than the segregation of most offline news consumption, and significantly lower than the segregation of face-to-face interactions with neighbors, co-workers, or family members.
This is not a pattern that has only emerged in the final days of the campaign… However, while these rates of switching are low in absolute terms, they are higher than the corresponding figures were in our polling just before the 2012 election, when compared to 2008.
The biologic relevance (whether this reflects a treatment effect) is not clear as the differences were low in absolute numbers mainly because of the low baseline expression in many of the tumors.
On the other hand, where health workers' pay is low in absolute terms, incentives may be an important channel to improve motivation through increasing their income levels.
Accordingly, while mortality is low in absolute terms, younger women with AMI lose the survival advantage women normally have over men.
Similarly, ACE inhibitors were used relatively much more commonly in those with established cardiovascular disease than in low-risk patients without (although their overall use was low in absolute terms, possibly because of the trial exclusion criteria).
Once again, although direct comparison is difficult due to the age and gender differences, the OHIP14 summary score in JSDF (4.6 +/- 6.7) is low in absolute terms compared with other populations.
