negative growth

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When the only tax is the income tax, this transition diverges toward a zero employment rate and a negativegrowth rate.
The per cent survival, mortality rates, growth rates (absolute, relative and the percentage of individuals showing a negativegrowth rate) were analysed.
We no longer have economic recessions but 'periods of accelerated negativegrowth', or simply 'negative economic growth'.
Future experiments should compare age-specific mortality schedules during positive and negativegrowth phases of the parasite population cycle.
These major labour reforms would only become established in 1998 after the economy slipped into negativegrowth and the alternation of power.
This rate, instead, depends negatively on and positively on when the economy experiences positive growth, changing to the opposite when there is negativegrowth.
The percentage of individuals with negativegrowth rates at each census was calculated on a plot basis.
However, an irregular asymptotic behavior, namely a negativegrowth rate, was observed experimentally and numerically.
This implies that negativegrowth in 1985-1988 more than offset positive growth in 1988-1993, at both levels.
For these purposes, growth rates were lntransformed to homogenize the variance of the data, after adding to 1 (as many stems showed negativegrowth).
Pressure fluctuations in front of the bubble due to shock reverberation suppress the bubble growth and can even cause a negativegrowth velocity.
Negativegrowth in seedlings is quite common due to stem breakage or damage from falling branch debris, browsing or trampling by animals and insect clipping or grazing.
Overall, negativegrowth rates or diameter shrinkage was more common in uncut and partially cut plots than in clear-cut plots and a similar result was obtained for the initial cohort.
It is shown that periods of negativegrowth can result when economies reshuffle their resources in response to (favorable) technology shocks to take full advantage of the technological improvements.
Meanwhile, all of the country's non-hydrocarbon sectors experienced negativegrowth, and a deep social crisis wiped out most of the progress made in human development since the 1970s.
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