After a couple of brief growth spurts, home prices have started declining again in earnest.
It had a brief growth spurt in the run-up to joining the euro in 1999, as its borrowing costs fell.
A brief growth spurt is expected in Japan in early 2009 thanks to a fiscal stimulus, but output is set to stagnate over the second half of the year.
And it has seen only a brief growth spurt of more than 5% - well behind China and India in particular.
After a brief growth spurt from 2004 through 2007 Japan's economy has again contracted, is smaller today than it was a decade ago and "will contract in size from now on," Japanese economist Akihiko Matsutani predicts.
To validate the impact of single SPI Extreme cDNAs we have used three growth tests at 30°C, with the understanding that the SPI protocol of growth for 30 generations greatly amplifies differences which are expected to be only modest after briefer growth intervals.
To determine if FoxO3 is present at the binding site at the miR-106b~25 locus in NSPCs in the context of endogenous chromatin, we performed FoxO3 chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) on NSPCs treated with brief growth factor removal and the PI3K inhibitor LY294002, to activate endogenous FoxO3.
We therefore delivered brief growth-mind-set and sense-of-purpose interventions through online modules to 1,594 students in 13 geographically diverse high schools.
Without testosterone, tumours in mice given doxycycline also showed a brief increase in growth, but tumour RTVs dropped gradually thereafter, although significantly greater than in the no doxycycline control animals (Fig. 4D).
That theory asserts that when the universe was less than a trillionth of a trillionth of a second old it underwent a brief hyperexplosive growth spurt fueled by an antigravitational force embedded in space itself, a possibility suggested by theories of modern particle physics.
But many now wonder whether it has managed nothing more than a vôo de galinha (chicken flight), a brief, unsustainable growth spurt followed by a rapid return to earth.During Brazil's "economic miracle" of the 1970s it was the rich who captured most of the gains.
