Sentence examples for prevailing prior from inspiring English sources

Research reveals that if CFCs had continued to grow at rates prevailing prior to the Montreal Protocol, they would by 1990 have surpassed carbon dioxide in global warming impact.

Where there is no prevailing prior knowledge on the site, a non-informative prior distribution (e.g., uniform prior distribution) is used to reflect quantitatively the engineering common sense and judgment.

They include the immediate settings, contexts, or conditions prevailing prior to the occurrence of the outcome of interest.

Growth for both crop and livestock production is forecast to remain well below the rates that were prevailing prior to 1997.

The decline in melanoma mortality reported in the 5 years immediately following the start of the SCREEN project in Schleswig Holstein was transient and during the next 5 years, rates returned to levels prevailing prior to the introduction of screening.

Those mother and child deaths affect some countries to a far greater extent than others and much remains to be understood about the processes prevailing prior to their occurrence for effective preventative or curative measures to be put into place [ 3].

This was also the prevailing theory prior to molecular studies, based on the group's high diversity in the tropics, an extended fossil record, and the wide variation of floral and vegetative structures beyond the specializations in the other two subfamilies.

The prevailing influence of prior course performance was shown even more clearly in the clinical course.

While there have always been those who were willing to violate the tacit expectation of privacy, I believe that the prevailing assumption prior to the rise of social media was that written communications between individuals about personal matters were "private," by which I mean that they were to be shared only with permission and with discretion.

Interestingly, the rate of investment during 1930 40 (the "infamous decade") appears low (9.1%), particularly when compared with the rate prevailing during the decade prior to the start of the First World War (19.3%), one of the periods where the government was in the hands of "elitist" governments and the economy was relatively open to international trade (see, Gerchunoff and Llach 1998).

The present study investigates the influence of students' domain-specific prior knowledge and prevailing feelings of situational uncertainty on verbal interactions during whole-class dialogue in vocational education.