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Although freight traffic rose 14.8 per cent year on year, the growth rate was weaker than the year-on-year improvement of 19 per cent recorded in August.

The slower growing, native range crayfish experienced warmer temperatures; therefore, the positive effect of temperature on growth rate was weaker than the effect of range.

Compared to other degrees of urbanization, the participation rate was weaker in the Paris area (12.6% of households were from the Paris area, even though Paris area inhabitants represent 17% of the French households).

In this combination, however, specific growth rate was weak (1.3%.d−1) compared to other combinations where growth rate was high but associated with both high cannibalism and final weight heterogeneity.

First of all the participation rate was weak (40%), and no data have been collected allowing to compare anonymous respondents with non-respondents in order to characterize the possible participation bias.

iii) Selection for high growth rate is weaker in locations with a constant climate where the host is growing for longer periods and optimum temperatures are more frequent.

As with the template studies the correlation between the IDS-C total score and Personal Life-Chart mood rating was weaker than for Personal Life-Chart functional impairment rating (0.6 versus 0.72).

The absolute numbers for figures such as unemployment rate are weak, but job growth is getting better slowly – though people see what they want to see, and we know Republicans are more half-empty about it.

So, when growth rate is weak, it is conceivable that seed plasma-perturbation is strong enough to conpensate to preserve strong upwelling growth.

Considering the findings at a single-case level of analysis, however, the effects of presentation rate are weak.

All correlations with unrelated constructs such as height, socioeconomic status and baseline heart rate were weak; supporting the discriminant validity of both PPAC instruments (online supplementary table E10).