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rate

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n. 比率，率；速度；价格；等级
vt. 认为；估价；责骂
vi. 责骂；被评价
n. (Rate)人名；(法、塞)拉特

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And the quit rates were particularly convincing given that before the study started, most of the people had said they'd rather cut down gradually before quitting.

The system Medicare developed to rate nursing home quality is of little help to finding a satisfactory place.

If the food situation continues to worsen, entire nations will break down at an ever increasing rate.

By following individuals over time, Salthouse said, we gain insight in cognition changes, and may possibly discover ways to slow the rate of decline.

As a matter of fact, consumers expressed higher satisfaction with the one-star facilities, the lowest rated, than with the five-star ones.

As I was considering all this, a press release from a respected research firm crossed my desk, announcing that the five-star rating system that Medicare developed in 2008 to help families compare nursing home quality also has little relationship to how satisfied its residents or their family members are.

Before you brush this argument aside as rubbish, or think of joy as an unaffordable luxury in a nation where there is awful poverty, low academic achievement, and high dropout rates, think again.

We encourage students to go on to college whether they are prepared or not, or have a clear sense of purpose or interest, and now have the highest college dropout rate in the world

Creating the highest dropout rate in the developed world

"If you ask Japanese students to list the positive attributes they expect in a romantic partner, they rate highly things like loyalty, commitment and devotion," says O'Sullivan.

The team conducted a computer-based analysis to determine the impact a 3-g-per-day reduction in salt intake on rates of heart disease and death.

The author tends to believe that high unemployment rate deprives many people of job opportunities.

If the Great Depression is any guide, we may see a drop in our sky high divorce rate.

when nearly one-quarter of the workforce was unemployed, the divorce rate had declined by around 25% from 1929 But this doesn't mean people were suddenly happier with their marriages

The divorce rate rose again during the rest of the decade as the recovery took hold.

bring about a drop in the divorce rate

The economic recovery will see a higher divorce rate

What's less clear is whether divorce and separation rates rise in a recession - financial pressures mean couples argue more but make splitting up less affordable.

divorce and separation rates increase

Global temperatures affect the rate of economic development.

It found that human-influenced climate change was raising the global death rates from illnesses including malnutrition (营养不良)and heat-related health problems.

Rates of death from illnesses have risen due to global warming

It is cheaper than calling long distance, and a lot more convenient than waiting until Sunday for the telephone rates to drop.

And the inflation rate is there for comparison.

The annual inflation rate in Britain

Blood pressure and heart rate are typically at their lowest levels during sleep.

By following individuals over time," Salthouse said, "we gain insight in cognition changes, and may possibly discover ways to slow the rate of decline."

Companies like Intel developed faster microprocessors, so personal computers could process the incoming signals at a more rapid rate.

Nonetheless, physicians say that they look at the collective data and a clear picture emerges: that the salt, sugar, fat and processed foods in the American diet contribute to the nation's high rate of obesity, diabetes and heart disease.

Once you get beyond the initial learning curve, knitting and crocheting can lower heart rate and blood pressure.

Phone lines could only transmit information at a limited rate.

That's the conclusion of a new study that finds that Earth's oceans now 26 absorb heat at twice the rate they did 18 years ago.

We wanted to know if the length of time food is in contact with a contaminated surface affected the rate of transfer of bacteria to the food.

They can multiply at an accelerating rate.

Mr.Ishiguro, have you ever found one of your books at a secondhand bookstore? According to a study of race and equity in education, black athletes are dropping out of college across the country at alarming rates.

Thoughts turn first to some sort of global statistic, some indicator which would rate the wealth of nations in both economic and environmental terms and show a relationship between the two.

The one in the House bill would have to negotiate rates with providers, rather than using Medicare rates, as many reformers wanted.

Some are turning to the Internet, which is cheaper and offers concrete measurements like click-through rates— especially important at a time when marketing budgets are tight.

Only three states, with a combined population not much larger than that of Brooklyn, have unemployment rates below 5%.

It is also troubling that voting rates among our youngest eligible voters—18- to 24-year-olds—are way down: Little more than one in four now go to the polls, even in national elections, compared with almost twice that many when 18-year-olds were first given the vote.

It helps advertisers to measure the click-through rates.

Clickthrough rates have been high so far ( ' , around 3-4%, compared with less than 0.3% online), but that may be a result of the novelty.

Both bills would reduce the rate of growth in annual Medicare payments to hospitals, nursing homes and other providers by amounts comparable to the productivity savings routinely made in other industries with the help of new technologies and new ways to organize work.

As a result, the bills do not require, as they should, that the results of these studies be used to set payment rates in Medicare.

Patrick Belser, an International Labour Organization specialist says declining wage rates are linked to the levels of unemployment.

He predicts high failure rates for smaller, regional banks in 2010 as commercial real estate loans come due.

There is an incompatibility in the rate at which these are advancing relative to the way we're digesting it, he said.

Premature death rates resulting from smoking have declined.

On the other hand, the death rate from flu dropped from 7.4% in 2000 to 4.1% in 2014.

In recent years, the death rate among American centenarians—people who have lived to age 100 or older—has decreased, dropping 14% for women and 20% for men from 2008 to 2014.

But by 2014, the death rate from Alzheimer’s Disease for this age group have more than doubled, increasing from 3.8% to 8.5%, making the progressive brain disease the second leading cause of death for centenarians.

What Nijay didn't realize about his school—Tennessee State University — was its frighteningly low graduation rate: a mere 29 percent for its first-generation students.

The graduation rate of first-generation students at Nijay's university was incredibly low.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for instance, admits only that the graduation rate for its first-generation pupils is much lower than the percentage of all students who graduate within four years ( ' , 81 percent).

Tennessee State's overall graduation rate is a tiny 39 percent, but at least it has a smaller gap between the outcomes for first-generation students and those of their peers.

Still, Jones represents a small percentage of first-generation students who are able to gain entry into more elite universities, which are often known for robust financial aid packages and remarkably high graduation rates for first-generation students.

Many universities simply refuse to release their exact graduation rates for first-generation students.

If we can help to direct students to more of these types of campuses and help students to understand them to be realistic and accessible places, have them apply to these schools at greater frequency and ultimately get in and enroll, we are going to raise the success rate, Rubinoff said, citing a variety of colleges ranging from large state institutions to smaller private schools.

Higher education institutions are, under federal law, required to report graduation rates, but these reports typically only include Pell recipient number—not necessarily rates specific to first-generation students.

Elite universities tend to graduate first-generation students at a higher rate.

A flagship university in the South, the school graduates just 16 percent of its first-generation students, despite its overall graduation rate of 71 percent.

( ' , Harvard, for example, boasts a six-year graduation rate for underrepresented minority groups of 98 percent)Christian Vazquez, a first-generation Yale graduate, is another exception, his success story setting him far apart from students such as Nijay.

"If we can help to direct students to more of these types of campuses and help students to understand them to be realistic and accessible places, have them apply to these schools at greater frequency and ultimately get in and enroll, we are going to raise

"There is an incompatibility in the rate at which these are advancing relative to the way we're digesting it," he said.

According to social psychologist Brian Nosek, executive director of the Center for Open Science, the average data-sharing rate for the journal Psychological Science, which uses the badges, increased tenfold to % from 2013 to 2015.

Both bills would reduce the rate of growth in annual Medicare payments to hospitals, nursing homes and other providers by amounts comparable to the productivity savings routinely made in other industries with the help of new technologies and new ways to o

Grass-fed beef is enjoying a 25-30% annual growth rate.

If we can help to direct students to more of these types of campuses and help students to understand them to be realistic and accessible places, have them apply to these schools at greater frequency and ultimately get in and enroll, we are going to raise

Instead, they receive a fixed rate, which is typically about $825 for a standard four-hour vocal session.

Insurance can be purchased at a lower rate during the young years.

Lower reading achievement scores and grades in fifth grade contributed to reduced grades in middle school and thereby contributed to a 40% lower high school graduation rate.

Harvard, for example, boasts a six-year graduation rate for underrepresented minority groups of 98 percent.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel hill, for instance, admits only that the graduation rate for its first-generation pupils is "much lower" than the percentage of all students who graduate within four years 81 percent.

Their approach is flexible enough that in principle other important quality-of-life changes could be incorporated—for example, decreases in total emissions of pollutants and declines in crime rate.

But while increasing health was a typical feature of the 20th century, declining birth rate could be a defining one of the 21st.

By analysing the numbers, it found the average mother works 119 hours a week, 40 of which would usually be paid at a standard rate and 79 hours as overtime.

Data collected from the device could be used to recognize different participants based on how they typed, with very low error rates.

Frank Hurley's pictures would be outstanding―undoubtedly first-rate photo-journalism―if they had been made last week.

Hospital patients who see tree branches out their window are likely to recover at a faster rate than patients who see buildings or sky instead.

I can certainly change that for you, but there will be a change in the room rate.

In a further twist, birth rate is highest in poorly educated rural areas and lowest in highly educated urban areas.

In the north of india, the population is booming due to high birth rates, but in the south, where most economic development is taking place, birth rate is falling rapidly.

Leaving aside the birth rate issue, India's economy may take off when the country achieves of educational opportunity.

The annual death rate for adult condors has dropped from 38% in 2000 to 5%.

The birth rate in the 21st century may be much than it was in the 20th.

The impact of dropping birth rate on developing countries may not be but disastrous.

The new rate is $199 per night, instead of the original $179.

The same surveys also indicate that the rate of parental involvement is greater today than it was a generation ago.

The sense of excitement and tension levels rise suddenly though, as does your heart rate, as you move closer to them.

The steam-powered printing press was still in its early stages; the literacy rate in england was under 50%.

When vaccination rates are very high, as they still are in the nation as a whole, everyone is protected.

At any rate, this change will ultimately be acclaimed by an ever-growing number of both domestic and international consumers, regardless of how long the current consumer pattern will take hold.

While polls show Britons rate “the countryside” alongside the royal family, Shakespeare and the National Health Service ( ' , NHS) as what makes them proudest of their country, this has limited political support.

Then increase it at a higher rate each year and essentially try to generate additional revenue.

Most of the money would come from a penny-per-letter permanent rate increase and from shifting postal retirees into Medicare.

A report last year pointed out that the costs both of subscriptions and of these "article preparation costs" had been steadily rising at a rate above inflation.

Despite attempts by the Church to strong-arm this new generation of logicians and rationalists, more explanations for how the universe functioned were being made, and at a rate that the people-including the Church -could no longer ignore.

given the current divorce rate of nearly 50 percent, that amounts to millions of cases in the United States every year—a virtual epidemic of failed conversation.

Laughter does produce short-term changes in the function of the heart and its blood vessels, boosting heart rate and oxygen consumption.

Many people talked of the 288,000 new jobs the Labor Department reported for June, along with the drop in the unemployment rate to 6.1 percent, as good news.

One Gallup poll found that 20 percent of Americans who have been unemployed for at least a year report having depression, double the rate for working Americans.

Rather than have people simply rate their beauty compared with others, he asked them to identify an original photograph of themselves from a lineup including versions that had been altered to appear more and less attractive.

While polls show Britons rate "the countryside" alongside the royal family, Shakespeare and the National Health Service as what makes them proudest of their country, this has limited political support.

Worse, the numbers are now falling at an accelerating rate.