Aspects of this broader credit boom included widespread declines in underwriting standards, breakdowns in lending oversight by investors and rating agencies, increased reliance on complex and opaque credit instruments that proved fragile under stress, and unusually low compensation for risk-taking.
That is what contributed to the standard's breakdown after 1900.
The plasma emission spectra in and around the flame were selectively captured using such simplified device or plug instead of using a laboratory standard laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) system consisting of an ICCD and a spectrometer.
Tom Kent, our Deputy Managing Editor for Standards, finished a thoughtful breakdown of where our standards served us well and where we fell short.
By superimposing effects of electrode surface enlargement and inter-electrode gap enlargement, expressions for the mean value and standard deviation of the breakdown voltage random variable are obtained.
The SMMC approach warrants the control design to extend beyond normal operating conditions that breakdown when standard linear control techniques are applied.
Anomie, also spelled anomy, in societies or individuals, a condition of instability resulting from a breakdown of standards and values or from a lack of purpose or ideals.
One implication, particularly, stood out: namely, in any other industry where there had been such a collective breakdown of standards, and where such injustice had been perpetrated, there would have been an inquiry.
Their role must be to prevent such a catastrophic breakdown in standards while also protecting fearless and strong journalism, not only within news but also in documentaries, drama, etc.
The camera nearly killed it off once and for all as an occupation for painters and sculptors -- liberating artists from the chore of verisimilitude, or hastening the breakdown of standards, something from which art in the modern age has never recovered, depending on your viewpoint.
