These studies have pointed to the change in the source-country composition during the 1990s with a focus on declining returns to source-country labor market experience, lower payoffs to foreign schooling, and downturn in education quality and language skills (see Picot and Sweetman 2005, 2011 for reviews).
Economic news released on Wednesday was uniformly glum, but U.S. stocks still posted mild gains as investors apparently chose to focus on declining oil prices after Iran said it would free the 15 British naval personnel it had been holding captive.
Economic news released on Wednesday was uniformly glum, but U.S. stock prices still posted mild gains as investors apparently chose to focus on declining oil prices after Iran said it would free the 15 British naval personnel it had been holding captive.
This focus on declining fitness tends to ignore compensatory mutations because they are beneficial, albeit conditionally.
When discussing mealtime activities and behaviours, a negative discourse is often used, focusing on decline [ 28] and using terms such as 'aversive eating behaviors' [ 29].
For years, the central government focused on declining river flows and rising pollution, largely ignoring what has now become an acute problem: vanishing groundwater.
He blamed the media for focusing on declines in student performance.
The ninth episode is "A Tale of Almost Unbearable Sadness," which is focussed on declining morale in the orphanage and exploration of the dangerous forest.
The almost single-minded focus on economic decline that for so long dominated interviews here with voters -- and shaped the appeals of presidential candidates from both parties -- has been replaced with a broad new set of issues, including health care, education and campaign finance reform.
The next book is called Borderless, and will focus on the decline of the nation-state, and comes out October 30th.
