I say sharp, but that's probably relative to what has gone before.
The last weight loss region between 300 and 600 °C is probably relative to decomposition of the polymer backbones.
Therefore, although a gene cluster related to toxin and melanin biosynthesis played roles in the pathogenicity variation, other differently expressed genes were probably relative to the change, particularly up-regulated genes.
Given what we now know about multipliers, this should have depressed eurozone GDP by at least 5 percent, and probably more, relative to what would have happened without austerity.
Europe's productivity growth is therefore probably understated relative to America's.None of this is to deny that America's productivity growth has accelerated from its dismal rate in the two decades before 1995.
Why? Probably because, relative to brands like BMW, Audi, Lexus, Acura and even Infiniti, Volvo has an older lineup and doesn't fit squarely into either the luxury or sporty camp.
Although we may have underestimated exposure, since we had no information about some of the TCAs dispensed (see Subjects and Methods), these amounts were probably small relative to the amounts used in calculating exposure.
In such countries as the United Kingdom, Spain, and France, the risk of a fatal traffic accident for cyclists is substantially higher, probably also relative to car driving [Supplemental Material, Figure 2 (doi:10.1289/ehp.0901747)].
Even with such genetic variability among nuclei within single-spore isolates, our estimates of the rate of adaptation in the pathogen are probably conservative relative to the potential for evolution in a more diverse pathogen population.
Although the rate of transmission of STIs between women is probably low relative to that of transmission from men to women, a substantial proportion of lesbians, including those who self-identify as lesbians, and especially younger women most at risk for chlamydial infection, may continue to have sex with men (11 ).
In fact, after lipid adjustment, this relationship was statistically significant, probably because, relative to the wet-weight analysis, the lipid adjustment controls for variability in PCB levels due to differences in lipid content of the nonfasting serum samples (Phillips et al. 1989).
