In sexually reproducing species, it is applicable mostly to situations where ecological pressures prevent most competitors from reaching maturity, or where crowding or pair-bonding or an extreme suppression of sexual selection factors prevents the normal sexual competition rituals and selection from taking place, but which also prevent artificial selection from operating, e. g. arranged marriages, where parents rather than the young select the mate based on economic or even astrological factors, and where the sexual desires of the mated pair are often subordinated to these factors, are artificial unless wholly based on an ecological factor such as control of land which is held by their own force.

For another example, in a region devastated by nuclear radiation, such as the Bikini Atoll, capacity to survive gamma rays to sexual maturity and ( for the female ) to term is a key ecological selection factor, although it is neither " natural " nor sexual.

Reduced production of surfactant indicates decreased lung maturity and is a high risk factor for infant respiratory distress syndrome.

In the case where the only discount rate you have is not a zero-rate ( neither taken from a zero-coupon bond nor converted from a swap rate to a zero-rate through bootstrapping ) but an annually-compounded rate ( for example if your benchmark is a US Treasury bond with annual coupons and you only have its yield to maturity, you would use an annually-compounded discount factor:

Age is only one factor in determining sexual maturity and ability to breed – weight is the second factor.

The other factor is " emotional maturity ," which is the degree to which a person is capable of providing good treatment in a love relationship.

* Once the sale has taken place, the import factor collects the full invoice value at maturity and is responsible for the swift transmission of funds to the export factor who then pays the exporter the outstanding balance.

where is the discount factor corresponding to the risk-free rate to the final maturity date T years into the future.

Therefore, the prime factor for a constant maturity swap is the shape of the forward implied yield curves.

From maturity one looks back at the succession of years, counts them and makes them many, yet cannot feel length in the number, however large.

Zero coupon bonds have a duration equal to the bond's time to maturity, which makes them sensitive to any changes in the interest rates.

Her maturity is considerably more developed than her friends and this at times makes her behave in an arrogant manner ; especially when it comes to her past and current experiences with boys.

In " Essay on the Funding System " ( 1820 ) Ricardo studied whether it makes a difference to finance a war with £ 20 million in current taxes or to issue government bonds with infinite maturity and annual interest payment of £ 1 million in all following years financed by future taxes.

Burnett has told critics that he makes films that deal with emotions coming out of real problems like maturity and self-identity.

What makes Paddy's rite of passage, as it were, all the more tragic is the fact that he does not choose his " journey of enlightenment and maturity ", rather, it is robbed of him when his parents become abusive towards one another.

" A science is as mature as its measurement tools ," ( Louis Pasteur in ) and software engineering has evolved to a level of maturity that makes it not only possible but also necessary to measure quality software for at least two reasons:

While following the rules of NFP does not guarantee a truly spiritual sexual relationship between husband and wife, understanding the theology that makes NFP acceptable can foster the maturity needed by the couple to attain that level of spirituality, living life by the Holy Spirit.

What makes him an outstanding artist and a sought-after soloist, however, are his musical command and his maturity, which have been called upon over 35 years of working with outstanding jazz musicians.

The maturity in this point of view lies in its recognition that no basic problem is ever solved without being clearly understood.

While there should be no general age limit or restriction to one sex, there will be particular projects requiring special maturity and some open only to men or to women.

The animals provided wool when young and mutton upon maturity after wool production was no longer desirable.

a deposit which has no maturity ( checking accounts, money market accounts, savings accounts ); as opposed to deposits with maturities ( Certificates of Deposit, IRAs ).

" Zeffirelli's teenage leads, Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey, had virtually no previous acting experience, but performed capably and with great maturity.

At maturity, seeds of these species have no endosperm and are termed exalbuminous seeds.

In Mary Gentle's Golden Witchbreed, gender is not chosen until maturity, and gender has no bearing on social roles.

Treeshrews reach sexual maturity after around four months, and breed for much of the year, with no clear breeding season in most species.

This transport is not powered by energy spent by the tracheary elements themselves, which are dead by maturity and no longer have living contents.

But even in these species, one would distinguish cases where isolated populations had no real choice of mates, or where the vast majority of individuals died before sexual maturity, leaving only the ecologically selected survivor to mate-regardless of its sexual fitness under normal sexual selection processes for that species.

An exception is an irredeemable bond, such as Consols, which is a perpetuity, i. e. a bond with no maturity.

As long as all due payments have been made, the issuer has no further obligations to the bond holders after the maturity date.

Some bonds have been issued with terms of 50 years or more, and historically there have been some issues with no maturity date ( irredeemables ).

A strip bond has no reinvestment risk because the payment to the investor occurs only at maturity.

That Barker and Beban are able to create so much sympathy for Beppo, despite their own, occasionally quite obvious condescension to the character, is a mark of emerging maturity in the movie business ; no longer are films dealing in one-dimensional ' types.

Later, governments in Europe started issuing perpetual bonds ( bonds with no maturity date ) to fund wars and other government spending.

With the exception of ' Princeton ', no trees have yet been grown to maturity.

It is difficult to graft but grows well from seed, typically taking about 7 years before it flowers for the first time and 15 – 20 years to reach something approaching its full size of anything between 2 – 8 m. For the home gardener, buying a " red flowering gum " from a nursery is something of an adventure: it may or may not be a ficifolia, and the flower colour does not breed true-there is no way to find out what colour the flowers will be short of planting a seedling and waiting for it to reach maturity.

: National Review stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it … it is out of place because, in its maturity, literate America rejected conservatism in favor of radical social experimentation … since ideas rule the world, the ideologues, having won over the intellectual class, simply walked in and started to … run just about everything.

" In 1981, William Walsh argued that " Among the major Odes [...] no one has questioned the place and supremacy of ' To Autumn ', in which we see wholly realized, powerfully embodied in art, the complete maturity so earnestly laboured at in Keats's life, so persuasively argued about in his letters.

At maturity, no funds exchange hands ; rather, the

Fruits are at their optimum maturity when the seed pulp has turned into a clear jelly with no hint of browning.

* Regina " Reggie " Rocket ( Shayna Fox ): Otto's older sister by two years, Reggie is an aspiring publisher who, while no less competitive and skillful as an athlete, is of calmer disposition and greater maturity.

Since males have no role in parental care and give nothing to females except sperm, it is suggested that females gain genetic benefits from their mate choice, but this has not been established, in part, because of the difficulty of following offspring performance because males take seven years to reach sexual maturity.

There are five ( 5 ) vertebrae ( S1-S5 ) which are fused in maturity, with no intervertebral discs.