In its most recent installment of a twice-yearly report to Congress on the exchange and economic policies of the United States' major trading partners, the Treasury Department said that China has "resisted very strong market pressures" for currency appreciation and that its "real effective exchange rate exhibited persistent and substantial undervaluation".
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There is "no basis for persistent and substantial devaluation", said a deputy central bank governor, Zhang Xiaohui, at a hastily convened news conference on Thursday.
Our results suggest a persistent and substantial impoverishment of the large-tree stand, including the structural collapse of forest emergent layer, in aging, hyper-fragmented landscapes.
On the other hand, when the level shifts are persistent and substantial, the test with multiple shifts performs better than the Dickey Fuller test and that designed for a single level shift.
Serious side effects were defined as those causing death, hospitalization, persistent or substantial disability, or birth defects, or requiring intervention to avoid these outcomes (10).
Serious adverse events were defined as death, life threatening risk, hospitalisation, persistent or substantial disability or incapacity, and other medically important conditions (such as being newly diagnosed with diabetes).
It is likely that methodological differences, as well as the novel, intense and trauma-specific nature of our word stimuli, led to the persistent and substantial interference effects seen in the current study.
Adverse events were defined as untoward medical occurrences, following the guidelines of the International Conference on Harmonization, 19 and serious adverse events were defined as experiences resulting in death or life threatening events, inpatient hospitalisation, persistent or substantial incapacity, or medical or surgical intervention to prevent serious outcomes.
bA serious adverse event was defined as an event that was fatal or life-threatening, either required or prolonged hospitalization or caused persistent or substantial disability or incapacity or congenital anomaly or birth defect or an event that was considered by the investigator to be a medically important event.
