Comparing to Iranian young adults [ 7], the periodontal status in Hong Kong young adults can be regarded as better, with proportionally fewer young adults having shallow pockets.
However, it seems that the periodontal status of the young adults in Hong Kong is worse than Mainland China [ 31], with proportionally more young adults having calculus.
This is a natural corollary of the dropping birth rates that are slowing overall population growth; they mean there are proportionally fewer young people around.
But the number of referrals was "significantly higher, proportionally, for young people", he said, adding that many teachers were reporting incidents out of fear that they would be blamed if they failed to spot a student at risk.
What logic suggests that, because there are proportionally fewer young people than there used to be, because they have less money than they used to and because it's harder to separate them from that money than ever, advertisers should spend more money trying to court them?
Thus, to summarize, the variation among females in the age and dominance rank of their mates was partially explained by age differences, with yearlings mating with proportionally more young males and lower-ranking males than older females.
Moreover, with the legacy of the long-standing "one child policy" still being felt, there are proportionally very few younger adults considered "working aged".
In general, the increased risk was proportionally greater in younger age groups.
Conversely, if the average generation time is less (i.e., g < 4 years), then the time of onset of growth will be <span class="lh">proportionally and linearly younger.
Given that the sizes of restorations were independent of age and body size, the authors proposed that Hg exposure and subsequent excretion were proportionally greater in younger children because they were smaller.
