The total fertility rate has been rated around 1. 4 in 2010 ( the highest value since 1990 ) and has recently even been estimated at 1. 6 after accounting for the fact that older women contribute more to the number of births than in previous statistic models, and total fertility rates increased in younger generations.

The fertility rates can also give a misleading impression that a population is growing faster than it in fact is, because measurement of fertility rates only involves the reproductive rate of women, and does not adjust for the sex ratio.

This character of the festival as well as the fact that Neptune was offered the sacrifice of a bull would point to an agricultural fertility context.

The ocean-island basalt ( OIB ) geochemistry of lavas found at many places, and attributed to plumes, is, in fact, a geochemical signature of enhanced fertility in the melt source.

Machairs largely owe their fertility to the fact their sand has a high seashell content-sometimes as high as 90 %.

In biology, scout bees and ants will return home to tell the others where food is to be found, the fact of fertility must be announced to prospective mates from the same species, and the presence of danger must be passed as a warning to others in the group.

Basanoff has argued that the legend not only alludes to sex and fertility in its association with wildfig and goat but is in fact a summary of sort of all the qualities of Juno.

To illustrate man's experience of the " horror of feminine fertility ", Beauvoir quotes the British Medical Journal of 1878 in which a member of the British Medical Association writes, " It is an indisputable fact that meat goes bad when touched by menstruating women.

Knowing that Richard and Marian had tried unsuccessfully to have a child, Patricia believes that Richard has deceived her about his fertility, though Richard later tells his third wife Gail Platt ( Helen Worth ) that he had always believed that Marian was at fault and was stunned to discover that he was in fact, responsible.

In order to gain admission to a fertility program that had an upper age limit of 55, Kehs told doctors that she was 50, although she was in fact 10 years older at the time.

Lack of fertility is also suggested by the fact that Tullia herself had problems conceiving children later in life.

The fact is that the present Basilica was built where the main Temple of the Fertility of Kotakawana was once ( nowadays there are small fertility temples along the shores of the lake in Bolivia and Peru ).

The regions bathed by the Itajaí River, Chopotó River, Pomba River, among others, were of great interest due to the fact that the land in those areas were of great fertility, and that they were previously inhabited only by natives ( Coroados, Coropós and Purís ) and adventurers.

In fact, virtually every wealthy OECD nation currently has a total fertility rate that is below replacement levels, implying a coming population decline for the west.

Some reasons which have been suggested for this situation include the fact that short women start puberty earlier than taller women who experience delayed fertility since they spend more energy growing, and that shorter women have a larger pool of men to choose from if they wish for a taller mate.

According to Richard Barber in The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief, the Wasteland as theme in the Grail romances is of minor importance until the last works of the cycle, and the emphasis on fertility is " an interpretation which has haunted twentieth-century literature to a degree quite disproportionate to its basis in fact ".

In fact, “ some agronomists question whether taking stover out of the field annually will have a negative impact on soil fertility and structure .”

In fact, population momentum can become negative if fertility rates are under replacement for long enough ; in coming decades, for example, some Eastern European countries would show population shrinkage even if their birth rates recovered to replacement level.

In spite of the fact that our largest market, the textile industry, was affected substantially by the current decline in business activity, we have been able to produce and deliver our machines throughout the year 1960 at a rate materially higher than during 1959.

We are abstracting from the fact of strikes here, but it should be obvious that the extent to which the public-limit price is raised by a given increase in the basic wage rate is also a function of the show of resistance put up by the industry.

During World War 2,, doctors in The Netherlands and Scandinavia noted a curious fact: despite the stresses of Nazi occupation, the death rate from coronary artery disease was slowly dropping.

In fact, the commission has very little to do with the regulation of mobile phone service, outside of " undue preference " issues ( for example, a carrier offering a superior rate or service to some subscribers and not others without a good reason ).

The name " double data rate " refers to the fact that a DDR SDRAM with a certain clock frequency achieves nearly twice the bandwidth of a SDR SDRAM running at the same clock frequency, due to this double pumping.

With inflation hitting 33 percent in 1990, there was, in fact, a negative real interest rate, but this situation reversed in 1991 when rates were high relative to inflation.

In fact, a reticulocyte count estimates the rate of erythropoiesis.

This is a high success rate given the fact that many of the studies measured included the treatment of addictions and medical conditions.

The ratio of M to R increases by a factor of only three over 2. 5 orders of magnitude of M. This relation is roughly proportional to the star's inner temperature T < sub > I </ sub >, and its extremely slow increase reflects the fact that the rate of energy generation in the core strongly depends on this temperature, while it has to fit the mass – luminosity relation.

Sports such as gymnastics rate competitors on a numeric scale, although the fact that judges ' ratings are public makes it less likely for them to engage in blatant tactical voting.

The Shidlo-Schroeder recruitment poster is available at NARTH online, stating that the study's authors did not seek to measure the average outcome of conversion therapy, although their study has often been used by activists as if it had, in fact, sought a representative sample ; the lack of a representative sample therefore makes the 80 % failure rate, cited above in this same paragraph, a meaningless number.

Key realizations made during World War II, notably the fact that most small-arms engagements occurred within 100 yards ( 90 meters ), and that a high rate of fire was generally more effective than the slower but more accurate fire, ( such as provided by bolt-action and semi-automatic rifles ) were some of the key causes for the development of the assault rifle.

Some evidence, such as the fact that six out of thirteen allozyme loci are different, that hawthorn flies mature later in the season and take longer to mature than apple flies ; and that there is little evidence of interbreeding ( researchers have documented a 4-6 % hybridization rate ) suggests that sympatric speciation is occurring.

If they factor out of the calculation the fact that the light-time delay of the transmission is increasing at a rate of 0. 8 seconds per second, both can work out that the other twin is aging slower, at 60 % rate.

The CDC's fact sheet on the Relationship of Walking to Mortality Among U. S. Adults with Diabetes states that those with diabetes who walked for 2 or more hours a week lowered their mortality rate from all causes by 39 %.

Overall, Durkheim treated suicide as a social fact, explaining variations in its rate on a macro level, considering society-scale phenomena such as lack of connections between people ( group attachment ) and lack of regulations of behavior, rather than individual's feelings and motivations.

( In fact, the stereo multiplex signal can be generated using time-division multiplexing, by switching between the two ( left channel and right channel ) input signals at an ultrasonic rate ( the subcarrier ), and then filtering out the higher harmonics.

It is sometimes claimed that at the time life expectancy for the average Prussian was 45 years ; in fact this figure ignores the very high infant mortality and high maternal death rate from childbirth of this era.

Upon analyzing of the results of the study it was concluded that the anterior cingulate cortex is indeed involved in the modification of cognitive tasks that require attention based on the fact that there was a change in the basal firing rate of neurons in that region during simulation of such tasks.

The natural history of aortic root dilatation is still unknown, but it is a fact that it is linked to aortic dissection and rupture, which has a high mortality rate.

People affected by or sympathetic to the large death rate attributable to active and / or passive tobacco use cite the fact that half of all tobacco users die from tobacco-related causes worldwide.

Therefore, considering the fact that the " Discount " must match the benefits obtained from a similar Investment Asset, the " Discount Yield " must be used within the same compounding mechanism to negotiate an increase in the size of the " Discount " whenever the time period the payment is delayed or extended .< Ref Name =" Economics_Discount "/> The “ Discount Rate ” is the rate at which the “ Discount ” must grow as the delay in payment is extended .< Ref Name =" MathEcon_Chiang "> Alpha C Chiang, " Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics, Third Edition ", McGraw Hill Book Company, 1984 .</ ref > This fact is directly tied into the " Time Value of Money " and its calculations.

Since the time of Catherine II the ranks of Abbot and Archimandrite have been given as honorary titles in the Russian Church, and may be given to any monastic, even if he does not in fact serve as the superior of a monastery.

According to the historian Robin Blackburn, the words " the hireling and slave " allude to the fact that the British attackers had many ex-slaves in their ranks, who had been promised liberty and demanded to be placed in the battle line " where they might expect to meet their former masters ".

He rose through the ranks of the army and ultimately became its Emperor, in spite of the fact he was illiterate and almost 70 years old at the time of accession.

A mercenary is a person who takes part in an armed conflict, who is not a national or a party to the conflict, and is " motivated to take part in the hostilities essentially by the desire for private gain and, in fact, is promised, by or on behalf of a party to the conflict, material compensation substantially in excess of that promised or paid to combatants of similar ranks and functions in the armed forces of that Party ".

Professionals may also differ in actual strength for a number of reasons, such as promotion not keeping up with actual gains in strength, or the fact that professional ranks ( unlike kyu or amateur dan ) may rise, but never fall ( even if the player grows weaker ).

Many of Helper's business enterprises were associated with specific ethnic groups, but this fact illustrated the business opportunities then available in the town, enabling immigrants to " break the ranks of labor.

The fact that the organization does not trumpet its views from the housetops, or that it tolerates dissent within its ranks, does not mean that its views receive no First Amendment protection.

In fact, the RSM may conduct " subalterns ' parades "-private sessions for junior officers to perfect their foot and sword drills away from the critical eyes of the other ranks.

Its separation from the rest of its GM parent, plus the fact that it drained $ 5 billion from other car projects, stirred resentment within GM ranks.

Despite the fact that there were Jacobins among those who brought down Robespierre and the rest of The Mountain, the resulting Thermidorian reaction shuttered all of the Jacobin clubs, removed all Jacobins from power, and condemned many, well beyond the ranks of the Mountain, to death or deadly exile.

Schenker's playing with UFO attracted attention from music critics and especially from the guitar community ; in fact, according to some writers, UFO is only to be distinguished for having had Schenker in their ranks.

The Guptas apparently showed little predilection for using horse archers, despite the fact these warriors were a main component in the ranks of their Scythian, Parthian, and Hepthalite ( Huna ) enemies.

In fact, Quattro also consistently ranks in the top 10.

Ouyahia has been accused by Western Human rights groups of downplaying the number missing and criticised for claiming that " a large number of the so-called disappeared were in fact in the ranks of terrorist groups.

The rank of Major would imply an American USAF commission — which would be odd for a European-based expedition — but it might be noted that continental writers have often given Army ranks to officers of the British RAF regardless of the fact that it does not use such a system.

In various Romance and other languages, the imperial title was rather based on the Latin Imperator ( in fact a military mandate or a victory title ), but Caesar or a derivation is then still used for both the name and the minor ranks ( still perceived as Latin )

Mindful of the fact that his team contained a large number of relatively old players, Busby was keen to bring new young players through the ranks, and Edwards, along with the likes of Dennis Viollet and Jackie Blanchflower, was among a number of youngsters introduced to the team during 1953, who came to be known collectively as the Busby Babes.

Sam's Club ranks second in sales volume among warehouse clubs behind Costco, despite the fact that Sam's has more retail locations.

The British report of prisoners taken on the morning of 6 June corresponds exactly to the American list of “ missing ” as concerns the number and ranks of the captured officers but gives 94 enlisted men captured, indicating that one of the Americans who was presumed to have been killed in the casualty return was in fact captured.

She was able to sneak into their ranks thanks to the fact that her father Rufus was an on-air personality for the radio station.

A major difficulty in activating the IRR stems from the fact that many of its members, typically those from the junior enlisted ranks, are unaware that they are even in the military.

Originally a small-time hit-man, Hammerhead quickly rises through the ranks of the Maggia, while hiding the fact that he's actually Russian so he can be " made ".

Due to its harsh anti-berlusconismo, IdV is however popular especially among left-wing voters, a fact that was highlighted also by the increasing number of communists in party ranks.

To support his thesis, Rifkin notes that in addition to the EU having more people and a greater Gross Domestic Product than the U. S., the potential of the EU as an economic superpower is shown by having: 14 / 20 of the top banks in the world, 61 of the 140 of the top companies of the world as measure by the Global Fortune 500 ( the U. S. has 50 ), a homicide rate that is 1 / 4 than in the U. S., the 18 most developed countries in Europe all have more broadly distributed wealth than the U. S. ( the U. S. ranks 24th in the world ), higher lifespan than the U. S., higher literacy rates than the U. S., and higher quality of life than the U. S. Also, Europeans provide 47 % of all the humanitarian aid in the world, and are seen by Rifkin as being more effective in global economic market regulation, evidenced by the fact that the EU stopped the merger of General Electric and Honeywell, fined Microsoft for anti-trust, and blocked genetically modified food despite U. S. opposition.