Though it was affected by the Great Recession, Seattle has retained a comparatively strong economy, and remains a hotbed for start-up businesses, especially in green building and clean technologies: it was ranked as America's No. 1 "smarter city" based on its government policies and green economy.
Norway stipulated comparatively strong fiscal and non-fiscal purchase incentives, both being defined on a national level : EVs have access to bus lanes, profit from free parking on public grounds and are exempted from the (comparatively high) VAT as well as from road and ferry tolling [36].
If external pressures were main drivers of policy change, as in the liberal convergence thesis, convergence would be particularly likely between Scandinavian welfare states, which are similarly vulnerable to the structural squeeze of global competition and immigration because of their comparatively strong redistributive schemes and high wages.
The security obsession and regional conflicts of the apartheid era left an industrial and research legacy — and comparatively strong infrastructure.
Most of this can be attributed to the comparatively strong positive association between turnover and Development and confirms what was previously found by Shields and Ward [ 27] that training opportunities impacted on turnover more so than workload and pay.
Delegates like Wu – "elite party members with a firm political stand, virtue, fine working style, excellent achievements and comparatively strong capability", in the words of the state news agency – represent electoral blocs within the party, such as provinces and state-owned enterprises.
This can also be seen in the poor performance of the variable actual-to-potential G.D.P. (which tracks output against its long-term trend-line) as compared to the comparatively strong performance of the rate of G.D.P. growth during the election year.
Meanwhile, Fe3O4@PHEMA-g-PCL nanoparticles showed superparamagnetism and comparatively strong magnetization.
33 It is likely that the comparatively strong association between SRH and mortality is due to the higher ability of SRH to summarise global health risk among diabetes patients than specifically metabolic risk in a general population.
Many protein and protein hydrolysates also have been tested and found to have comparatively strong antioxidant activities, such as soy proteins, caseins and egg-yolk protein.
