While developing and implementing these programs, it became increasingly clear that the greatest short to medium term gains toward more sustainable practices would be realized at the interface of chemistry and technology.
This does not imply inconsistency, as short term gains in satisfaction probably reflect differences in process, while medium term gains in quality of life reflect patients' perception of outcomes, perhaps in the form of the accuracy of the procedure and their confidence in the results.
For example, one contributor from a small business bluntly emailed: 'If British plastics SMEs address social and environmental issues when there is neither short nor medium term gain, they will go out of business.' Such harsh realities do not chime with the absolutism of the business case or the moralisers.
Our proposal changes the current tax regime by increasing rates on medium-term gains and eliminating taxes on long-term gains.
It's even been updated to reflect the new capital gains laws eliminating medium-term gains that went into effect last August.
9 Despite incremental short-term and medium-term gains associated with continued imatinib therapy even at higher doses in patients with suboptimal responses, the long-term prognosis with this strategy remains poor.
Taylor has done it all for medium-term gain, aiming to peak for the World Championship, but he cannot have expected so much trouble in the short term.
An ageing team is invariably on the way down, finding wins harder to come by than was once the case, and therefore the idea of bringing in an inferior player for medium-term gain takes significant courage.
"If people do migrate, it's probably for a short- to medium-term gain, and that profits everybody, because then they'll go back". Gomez intends to return, "perhaps in two years, perhaps in 10, perhaps in 20," he said.
Experience with the infinitesimal model has demonstrated that increasing selection intensity results in greater short and medium term genetic gain even though this also increases the linkage disequilibrium.
Over the medium term, Ireland could gain from a shift in some foreign investment from the UK, or from international businesses relocating from Britain, "but this is highly uncertain", the ratings agency cautioned.
