In particular , the substantial increase in euro area sovereign spreads to the German benchmark since July 2007 seems to have been driven mainly by liquidity concerns related to the financial market turmoil , rather than by differences in sovereign credit risk .

A seventh chord is a chord consisting of a triad plus a note forming an interval of a seventh above the chord's root.

This means that aripiprazole acts like 5 hydroxytryptamine and dopamine to activate the receptors, but to a lesser extent than the neurotransmitters.

Greece , and to a lesser extent Spain , Italy and Portugal , will be the main exceptions .

This would require, of course, less cynical political elites who can transcend their petty ambitions and divisions for the sake of the country.

The upward impact of energy prices on transport costs also contributed , albeit to a lesser extent , to the increase in services prices as a whole .

The country with the least degree of press freedom was Eritrea, followed by North Korea, Turkmenistan, Syria, Iran, and China.

Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune, the other gas giants in the Solar System, are also oblate but to a lesser extent.

This is like (although to a lesser degree) David Cameron asking Augusto Pinochet to run for a constituency in the next general election

The length of study is three to five years, and the completed degree is designated as a bachelor of engineering, or a bachelor of science.

In all European countries, different Christian denominations found themselves in competition, to greater or lesser extents, with each other and with the state.

Venetian was the commercial lingua franca in the Mediterranean at that time, and it heavily influenced Dalmatian and to a lesser degree coastal Croatian and Albanian.

This is one of the reasons why East Africa, the Caribbean, and to a lesser extent the Maghreb are prominently represented in Olympic running disciplines.

The higher inflation projections for 2008 and 2009 mainly reflect higher energy prices and , to a lesser extent , higher food and services prices than assumed previously .

In the EU , lending at short term rates is of relatively minor importance for both households and enterprises in Denmark , Germany , the Netherlands and Sweden , and to a lesser extent Belgium , France and Austria .

The following is a partial list of the members of the DeMolay Hall of Fame.

The 5 significance level for 1 degree of freedom is 3.84, and since the χ2 value is less than this, the null hypothesis that the population is in Hardy Weinberg frequencies is not rejected.

They are ranked 72nd in Stanley Coren's The Intelligence of Dogs , as Coren places them among the group with the lowest degree of working obedience intelligence.

According to research by Online Banking Report, by the end of 1999, less than 0.4 of households in the U.S. were using online banking.

What's the smallest number we can get away with?

For her, floods frighten less than earthquakes.

Consuming less fuel is better for the environment.

However , both sets of criteria ensure a comparable degree of risk protection for the Eurosystem .

1.3 INVESTMENT ACTIVITIES The ECB 's investment activities are organised in such a way as to ensure that no insider information about central bank policy actions may be used when making investment decisions . A set of rules and procedures , known as the Chinese wall , separates the business units involved in operational investment activities from other business units .

Today, since the special wards have almost the same degree of independence as Japanese cities, the difference in administration between Tokyo and other prefectures is fairly minor.

Historically, Monophysitism (usually capitalized in this sense) refers primarily to the position of those (especially in Egypt and to a lesser extent Syria) who rejected the Council of Chalcedon in 451 (the Fourth Ecumenical Council).

These styles had been present to a lesser degree in the band's first two releases, but here it was the main emphasis, and one that would remain prominent to various degrees in the group's later albums.

The user can load and unload these modules at any time.

this , in conjunction with the adoption of a flatter risk weight curve for corporate credits ( agreed by the BCBS in November 2001 ) , is expected to contribute to a lower degree of fluctuation in capital requirements over the economic cycle .

European ancestry predominates in North America, and to a lesser degree in South America (particularly in Uruguay, Argentina, Chile and Brazil, while most of the other Latin American countries also have a considerable population of European origins).

My mother told me to take it smaller.

Tom moved to a smaller house.

Aerodynamics were refined for less drag.

) Extension to polynomials with two or more variables For polynomials in two or more variables, the degree of a term is the sum of the exponents of the variables in the term the degree (sometimes called the total degree) of the polynomial is again the maximum of the degrees of all terms in the polynomial.

Thus replacing is done by deleting the root and putting the new element in the root and sifting down, avoiding a sifting up step compared to pop (sift down of last element) followed by push (sift up of new element).

In the graduate program, courses leading to a degree such as the Master of Physiotherapy degree are offered.

The degree of parenchymal inflammation is variable and is proportional to duration of disease.

So the shorter the bar, less angiogenesis, that's good.

As study in the arts or in grammar was a necessary prerequisite to study in subjects such as theology, medicine and law, the degree of doctor assumed a higher status than the master degree.

The degree of isolation from local traffic allowed varies between countries and regions.

Lyapunov exponents use logarithms to gauge the degree of chaoticity of a dynamical system.

The payoffs to innovation are greatest where the uncertainty is highest.

A minor problem (at least in scale) like Cyprus, when combined with an almost unbelievable degree of incompetence among the troika (the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund), was enough to turn a molehill into a mountainous crisis.

For grade 3 sensory neuropathy withhold treatment until resolution to grade 1 or 2, followed by a dose reduction for all subsequent courses.

Every such subset has a smallest element, so to specify our choice function we can simply say that it maps each set to the least element of that set.