THE 1920s notion of a "hemline index," in which the economist George Taylor posited that skirt lengths rise and fall in relation to the economy, suggests that fashion is socially determined.
Even the red carpet - for the past five years, home to an endless procession of strapless, corseted, fishtail gowns - has seen skirt lengths rise in recent months, and then fall, and then rise again, depending only upon the whims of the celebrity in question.
The average sentence length rose from 156 days to 221.
Female worms, about 2 cm (almost 1 inch) in length, rise to the surface shortly after sunset and swim in circles while ejecting a luminous secretion.
Tango's average video call used to last six minutes, Mr. Setton said, but when the company started adding other applications to go with the videos, like games and designs that float over people, the average call length rose to 12 minutes.
The results show that the intermetallic layer of Ni/Al exhibits high adhesion and formability while the elongation of gauge length rising to 7%.
The effects of various structural and material parameters such as thickness ratio, beam length, rise of the curved beam, boundary conditions, and size-dependent or nonlocal parameter are brought out on the vibration behaviours of curved nanobeams.
In temperate regions, breeding is mostly seasonal, usually in the spring, and is triggered by increasing day length, rising temperatures or rainfall.
After this date, weight and length rise over time in a similar fashion.
The number of daily face-to-face contacts with patients decreased from 31 to 24 but the average length rose from 15 to 20 min (p < 0.001).
