Line-depth ratios may prove useful in understanding the variation in photospheric structure with changing magnetic activity, and for monitoring secular changes over many solar cycles.
Derived from the long white tunic (tunica alba, or linea) commonly worn in the Greco-Roman world, the alb was retained by the Christian clergy as a vestment after secular styles began changing in the 6th century ad.
Morgan Stanley added, "Headline risks from the Spitzer-led probe and changing secular dynamics will continue to weigh on valuations, we think".
Additionally, the previous cross-sectional studies provide little insight on how relationships may evolve over time and/or be affected by constantly changing secular forces.
Our large population-based cohort with assessment points straddling the 2008 economic crisis in Iceland revealed a reduction in smoking rates from the short periods before and after the start of the crisis though our study could not disentangle the direct effects of the crisis with other mechanisms, for example, secular trends and changing cigarette prices.
Using objective measures of physical capability as the outcome, the purpose of this study was to highlight four methodological challenges of attrition bias, secular changes in socio-economic measures, historical data availability, and changing reporting units over time.
For all three sites, secular changes at the population level need to be examined in terms of the possible screening interventions and/or changing diagnostic patterns (as possible period effects) against a changing prevalence and distribution of risk factors, which may show up as changes in rates among successive generations (cohort effects).
[Today] we are seeing a secular change.
Secular sociologists say evangelicals' changing view of society reflects their changing place in it.
Some suspect that, if the BJP returns to power with more seats, it might step up the pace of "saffronisation".Sunil Khilnani, of the School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, argues that the BJP is still committed to a "redrawing of what India is", including changing the secular constitution.
