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The high-productivity growth sectors are emerging and dissipating first, the low-productivity growth sectors (like services) are completing their life cycles only now. Different productivity growth rates in different sectors are accompanied by virtually uniform growth rates in wages and salaries across all sectors, as required by free market ...
A vicious circle (or cycle) is a complex chain of events that reinforces itself through a feedback loop, with detrimental results. [1] It is a system with no tendency toward equilibrium (social, economic, ecological, etc.), at least in the short run. Each iteration of the cycle reinforces the previous one, in an example of positive feedback. A ...
These cycles continue for eternity, and the same events are exactly repeated in every cycle. [4] The Stoics may have found support for this doctrine in the concept of the Great Year, [5] the oldest known expression of which is found in Plato's Timaeus. Plato hypothesised that one complete cycle of time would be fulfilled when the sun, moon and ...
It was finally identified that the cycle of high and low catches ran over approximately a ten-year period. The most well known example of creatures which have a population cycle is the lemming. [3] The biologist Charles Sutherland Elton first identified in 1924 that the lemming had regular cycles of population growth and decline. When their ...
A prolonged or repeated diapause of individual larvae can result in individual life cycle completion of one, two, three or even four years. [ 22 ] In Curculio elephas a reported soil emergence from a single weevil larvae generation underneath oak tree canopy varied.
For older adults, the loss can even cause a phenomenon known as the “widowhood effect,” which puts them at a higher risk of dying themselves, particularly within the first three months of ...
The question for growth in per capita income is whether the net capital accumulation is large enough to keep up with population growth. Sachs argues that sufficient foreign aid can make up for the lack of capital in poor countries, maintaining that, "If the foreign assistance is substantial enough, and lasts long enough, the capital stock rises ...
The Washington Wizards avoided a franchise-record 17th consecutive loss, beating the Denver Nuggets 122-113 Saturday for their first win since Oct. 30.. Among Washington’s three victories this ...