This was happening just at a time when emerging markets' chances of converging economically with the West seemed to be receding.Rich countries did not experience steep declines in happiness.
Our findings have implications for policy makers who seek to improve emerging countries' chances of catching up to the technological frontier, and for firm leaders concerned about the appropriation of returns to their R&D investments.
Thus populations can compete for the greatest average fitness of their members; those that have the greatest proportion of the relevant alleles, resulting in the greatest number of altruists being formed (emerging by chance), will win in this competition.
The very large number of potential clusters give rise to the statistical problem of "multiple inference," i.e., the more clusters examined, the greater the risk of "false-positive" associations emerging by chance alone.
This had the advantage of ensuring that possible associations with geographical and organisational factors were not biased by caseload – and indeed, after adjusting for clinical factors, most of these associations disappeared – but the disadvantage is the possibility of some associations emerging by chance.
The war in Syria and Iraq is far from over but, as winners and losers emerge, the chances of local ceasefires and, ultimately, some sort of peace will become more feasible.
It emerged that chances were missed to alert the doctor, before the mother went into labour, that the 27-year-old had undergone FGM in Somalia when aged six.
In other words, even in this toy model that assumes a deliberately inflated rate of RNA production, the probability that a coupled translation-replication emerges by chance in a single O-region is P < 10-1018.
The first signs of a postwar pickup in consumer spending are emerging, reducing the chances that the Federal Reserve will lower interest rates when it meets next month.
[Crude is] set for a first red close for the week since the middle of September as some doubts are emerging around the chances of a successfully implemented deal amongst Opec members to reduce output.
