Somewhat uneven in interest for an average reader, eight or ten of these are among the finest of their kind in literature.

It is of interest that her menarche was somewhat later than the average for the girls in this group.

Other quantities of interest include the average flow in a river, in a year or by season.

* Whether " the average person, applying contemporary community standards ", would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest,

Instead, the Roth test for obscenity was " whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest.

In the US and United Kingdom, from 1945 to 1980 negative real interest rates have cost lenders an estimated 3-4 % of GDP per year on average.

If the time interval of interest is the primary concern, we consider instantaneous, limiting, average, and limiting average availability.

# The average noise power in the frequency range of interest.

" She claims the NBA has become irrelevant to average readers and of more interest to professional writers.

* Traditional Present Value Approach-in this approach a single set of estimated cash flows and a single interest rate ( commensurate with the risk, typically a weighted average of cost components ) will be used to estimate the fair value.

These multimedia works are cross-marketed aggressively and sales frequently outperform the average stand-alone published work, making them a focus of corporate interest.

Freigeld simply reduces this ' primordial ' interest rate, which is estimated to be somewhere around 3 % to 5 %, by an absolute, in order to lower the average interest rate to a value around 0.

Gosset's interest in barley cultivation led him to speculate that design of experiments should aim, not only at improving the average yield, but also at breeding varieties whose yield was insensitive ( robust ) to variation in soil and climate.

The units were sold to homesteaders on very liberal terms: the average price for the home and property was $ 2, 687. 40 plus interest.

Ironically, despite the developer-litigants ' claimed interest in allowing poor people to live in Easttown, they only built houses that sold at well over the average value in Pennsylvania.

In December 2008, NS & I dropped significantly the interest rate ( and therefore the odds of investors winning a prize ) due to the corresponding significant drop in the Bank of England base rate during the " credit crunch ", leading to strong criticism from Members of Parliament, financial experts, and holders of premium bonds ; many claimed that Premium Bonds were now " worthless ", and somebody with the maximum £ 30, 000 invested who has " average luck " would win only 10 prizes per year compared to 15 in the previous year.

The global average interest and fee rate is estimated at 37 %, with rates reaching as high as 70 % in some markets.

Indeed, the local microfinance organizations that receive zero-interest loan capital from the online microlending platform Kiva charge average interest and fee rates of 35. 21 %.

Analyst David Roodman contends that in mature markets, the average interest and fee rates charged by microfinance institutions tend to fall over time.

He supplemented the supervisory principle with the idea of contract management ; that is, an administration by contract as opposed to trust, where the director would have a pecuniary interest in lowering the average rate of mortality.

Roth repudiated the Hicklin test and defined obscenity more strictly, as material whose " dominant theme taken as a whole appeals to the prurient interest " to the " average person, applying contemporary community standards.

# whether the average person, applying contemporary community standards ( not national standards, as some prior tests required ), would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest ;

Though the courts originally adopted the British Hicklin test, an American test was finally set down in Roth v. United States, in which it was determined that obscenity was material whose " dominant theme taken as a whole appeals to the prurient interest " to the " average person, applying contemporary community standards ," and was, " utterly without redeeming social importance.

The average of states' rates is $.076 per mile.

Rhode Island's rate of $.07 per mile is considerably lower than reimburseable rates in the federal government and in industry nationally which approximate a $.09 per mile average.

In the 1970s, it became clear that the clocks participating in TAI were ticking at different rates due to gravitational time dilation, and the combined TAI scale therefore corresponded to an average of the altitudes of the various clocks.

Bethlehem's average annual relative humidity is 60 % and reaches its highest rates between January and February.

After robust growth rates in the 1980s ( average annual growth was 6. 1 %), economic performance in the 1990s was mixed: real GDP growth was 9. 7 % in 1992, 1. 7 % in 1993, 6. 0 % in 1994, 6. 0 % in 1995, 1. 9 % in 1996 and 2. 3 % in 1997.

Convective cloud sometimes forms inland, reducing the number of hours of sunshine ; annual sunshine rates are slightly less than the regional average of 1, 600 hours.

The study argues that " at present rates of fertility and mortality and in the absence of changes within countries, the average IQ of the young world population would decline by 1. 34 points per decade and the average per capita income would decline by 0. 79 % per year.

; Drivers: A one-year long study, conducted by a firm that provides statistical information to insurance companies so they can determine rates, found that drivers of H2 and H3 Hummers receive about five times as many traffic tickets as the national average for all vehicles ( standardized based on the number of violations per 100, 000 miles driven ).

Typically, it is appropriate for situations when the average of rates is desired.

In certain situations, especially many situations involving rates and ratios, the harmonic mean provides the truest average.

After a strong GDP growth in 1945-1990, the last two decades's average annual growth rates lagged well below the EU average ; moreover, Italy was hit particularly hard by the late-2000s recession.

With average growth rates of 10 % in the 1960s, 5 % in the 1970s, and 4 % in the 1980s, Japan was able to establish and maintain itself as the world's second largest economy from 1968 until 2010, when it was supplanted by the People's Republic of China.

Rushton argues that East Asians and their descendants average a larger brain size, greater intelligence, more sexual restraint, slower rates of maturation, and greater law abidingness and social organization than do Europeans and their descendants, who average higher scores on these dimensions than Africans and their descendants.

The geometric mean is an average that is useful for sets of positive numbers that are interpreted according to their product and not their sum ( as is the case with the arithmetic mean ) e. g. rates of growth.

Though different foods travel through the body at rates, an average speed through the human small intestine is 2. 16 m / h ( 0. 036 m / s ).

Although both mutation rates and average fitness effects of mutations are dependent on the organism, estimates from data in humans have found that a majority of mutations are slightly deleterious.

Peru's stability brought about a substantial reduction in underemployment, from an average of 74 % from the late 1980s through 1994 to 43 % in the 1995-96 period, but the rates began climbing again in 1997-2002 to over half the working population.

Physical therapy-related jobs in North America have shown rapid growth in recent years, but employment rates and average wages may vary significantly between different countries, states, provinces or regions.

Thereafter, the annual average growth rate was estimated to be less than 1 %, similar to the low growth rates of most industrialized countries and to the target figure set by the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs for the 1990s.

Total fertility rates ( the average number of births a woman will have during her lifetime ) fell from 6. 1 births per female in 1960 to 4. 2 in 1970, 2. 8 in 1980, and 2. 4 in 1984.

Urban birth rates have generally been lower than the national average.

An important distinction when talking about tax rates is to distinguish between the marginal rate and the effective ( average ) rate.