The scientific literature on biomarkers has grown disproportionately more rapidly than the application of promising markers in clinical practice.
However, hatcheries where fish grow very rapidly may disproportionately produce mature parr rather than anadromous fish (Schmidt and House 1979), as might have been predicted given more careful consideration of life history theory (Thorpe et al. 1998).
Disproportionately affecting older people, a rapidly growing share of patients, hospital delirium affects about one-third of patients over 70, and a greater percentage of intensive-care or postsurgical patients, the American Geriatrics Society estimates.
But scientists warn that a business-as-usual approach to the industry that's disproportionately responsible for planet-heating emissions rapidly causing Earth's climate to change jeopardizes any hope of averting the worst effects of global warming.
The genes altered by the LOF variants are disproportionately composed of members of large, rapidly evolving gene families, including the math, bath (btb-math), clec (c-lectin), fbx (F-box), and seven-transmembrane serpentine receptor genes.
When income generated by capital grows rapidly, the richest families benefit disproportionately.
The nation's income tax debate, nearly 150 years running, will probably continue indefinitely, with critics attempting to roll back President Bush's tax cut, which grows rapidly in future years and disproportionately benefits a few people with very high incomes.
The use of weighted foreign economic growth rates as instruments for changes in foreign investment has the potential to produce misleading results if the foreign investments of firms planning rapid expansion of domestic investment are disproportionately attracted to economies expected to grow rapidly (Hanson et al. 2001).
CDAD appears to be increasing rapidly in the United States and is disproportionately affecting older persons.
Although GDM prevalence was disproportionately higher among First Nations women, we found that prevalence is growing more rapidly among non-First Nations women.
