Low wage rates, advantageous tax breaks, and government-supported start-up costs induced hundreds of manufacturers from the United States (and some from Europe) to establish operations in Puerto Rico.
Low wage rates, advantageous tax breaks (most notably Section 936 of the Internal Revenue Code, enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1976, which exempted mainland companies from federal taxes on income earned in Puerto Rico), and government-supported start-up costs induced hundreds of manufacturers from the United States (and some from Europe) to establish operations in Puerto Rico.
But then, when foreign creditors and banks threatened to walk away from Argentina, Mr. Duhalde decided that dollar deposits should also be transformed into pesos, at a rate less advantageous to account holders.
The response surface analysis reveals that a combination of higher cutting speed with low-to-medium feed rate is advantageous in reducing the forces, power and surface roughness, which in turn increases the specific cutting force.
Hence, a high undercutting rate is advantageous for the formation of suspended structures.
Such slow HfO2 etching rate is advantageous with respect to previous reports using SF6/Ar [8] from the process control viewpoint, as it allows to process a typical 2-nm-thick gate oxide in a practicable etching time, i.e. approximately 30 s.
Thus, being able to achieve a high growth rate is advantageous in two respects.
The population-scaled rate of advantageous mutation Nμ a was 20 per generation for constant selection and 0.008 per generation for episodic selection.
Genetic instability should accelerate carcinogenesis by increasing the rate of advantageous driver mutations; however, genetic instability can also potentially retard tumour growth by increasing the rate of deleterious mutation.
Using a non-citation rate is advantageous as it creates a clear distinction between how citation analysis is used to determine the quality of a journal (low level of non-citation) and an individual article (citation counting).
A relatively high attack rate is advantageous in performing vaccine and treatment studies as smaller sample sizes are required, thereby reducing the number of individuals exposed and making studies more logistically feasible [ 18].
