In China, differences in maternal health service utilization and the maternal mortality ratio among different income groups, and among regions with different socio-economic development still exist, although these differences are narrowing.
Differences are narrowing, but non-Hispanic whites still earn more than blacks at almost every level.
Trade negotiators fear unscripted debates much as trial lawyers hesitate to ask questions with uncertain answers; reaching agreement is easier when the differences are narrow and clearly defined.
Paul Webb of Britain's Brunel University concludes in a forthcoming book ("Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Democracies, Oxford University Presss) that although partisan sentiment is weaker than it was, and voters more cynical, parties have in general adapted well to changing circumstances.Besides, even if party differences are narrowing at present, why expect that trend to continue?
In the future, victory will not be decided so much on product quality, since product quality differences are narrowing.
Results of this study elucidate normative growth plate variance in healthy children and demonstrate that mean plate measurements and absolute differences are narrow.
However, sex differences are narrowing in recent cohorts (Wechsler et al., 2002; Wallace et al., 2003).
International variations in racial/ethnic variations have been observed in several countries, with the view that differences are narrowing, thus emphasising the role of local environmental factors.
Two longitudinal studies found that inequities in prenatal care and institutional delivery between educational levels had not improved in the 1990s (26, 33), but there have been no studies exploring if these differences are narrowing or widening after 2000.
The difference in melt viscosity between 185°C and 225°C was approximately 3 times, compared with the neat PLA sample, and the differences were narrower with increasing PEG content up to 20 wt%.
