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At the upper end of the junk spectrum are those rated Ba1 by Moody's Investors Service or BB+ by S.& P. Bonds that the rating agencies consider riskier because the issuing companies and municipalities have less likelihood of repaying them may be rated triple-C or D or even be unrated.

(Such issues have less likelihood of default, he says, and good odds of ratings upgrades, which increase a bond's price).

If parents choose to invest in sons, they have less likelihood of living with them because sons are more likely to move to urban areas and start their own families there; in contrast, if parents choose to invest in daughters, parents still have the possibility of living with their daughters if they receive relatively high levels of education.

The motivation for such augmentation by replication is typically supported by an implicit (or explicit, but not justified) assumption: that a replicated system should be more dependable than a single node, namely that it should have less likelihood of failing (or be failed in) its mission.

For an HS chain in the bridging formation, a flexible connector domain would have less likelihood of remaining in close proximity to the elastase surface.

Thus, many previously eligible countries in the Americas will have less likelihood of receiving external funding.

Logistic regression analysis showed "C/T" genotype carriers of rs4254535 in the Gastrokine 1 (GKN1) had less likelihood to have chemotherapy response.

Screen detected cancers were smaller, had less likelihood of nodal metastases, included a higher proportion of in situ tumours and if invasive, tended to be of lower grade.

The current findings regarding having average or above motor skills and being a bully, or having less likelihood of being a victim is also consistent with a previous study (Jansen et al., 2011).

Furthermore, in contrast with greater-MA-dose smokers, those in the smaller dose group (≤0.2 g) had less likelihood of becoming highly dependent on nicotine (36.8% versus 54.2%), with a P value of 0.001.

The respondents agreed (19.3%) that it is necessary for a man to show his wife/partner who the boss is in the home, and it is a woman's obligation to have sex with her husband anytime he wants it (36.4%).> Table  5 shows that the postgraduate students had less likelihood of experiencing violence (OR = 0.64; 95% CI: 0.48-0.87), than undergraduates below the fourth year of schooling.