The proportion of infants exposed to tobacco smoke daily has fallen threefold among SIDS infants (P<0.001) and random control infants (P=0.0004).
But with the right "pro-poor" policies, the book predicts that the number of malnourished children in the world could fall almost threefold, to 57m by 2025; if such steps are neglected, however, that number could rise to 178m, with Africa bearing the brunt.
But by the May 1 holiday weekend, when many Russians who didn't head to their dachas headed to the movies, "Burnt by the Sun 2" earnings had fallen nearly threefold and "Iron Man 2" with Robert Downey Jr. was the top movie in Russia, taking in $7.7 million.
Vss was assumed log-normally distributed with 95% of samples falling within threefold of the predicted point estimate.
6 The uncertainty distribution for each clearance method was represented by a log-normal distribution with 95% of samples falling within threefold of the predicted point estimate.
7 Similar to clearance, it seems reasonable to suggest that the Vss predictions will fall within threefold of the true value.
In the first weight loss, HCB increased threefold in the brain, fell with weight regain, and increased with the second weight loss.
We find the truth of it most forcibly when twofold or threefold vision fails, and we fall into the state described by that great Blakeian WB Yeats as "the will trying to do the work of the imagination".
Findings from geographic regions falling within 10 American states found a threefold variation of rate by state, where Alabama had the lowest rate (3.3/1000) whereas New Jersey had the highest (10.6/1000) [CDC, 2007b].
Since the 1980s, the proportion of Tunisia's 10m people falling below the official poverty line is said to have shrunk threefold, to only 4%.
