It did not correlate with the poverty levels. It did not correlate.

To my surprise, it did not correlate.

It did not correlate with the size of classrooms.

It did not correlate with the quality of the infrastructure.

The oceans control, or at least significantly influence, correlate with, the growth patterns and the drought patterns and the rain patterns on the continents.

That seemed a little damning, and I tried to correlate it with things like infrastructure, or with the availability of electricity, and things like that.

It is difficult to correlate data across regions (the recent discussion of the Global Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS) and Global Land Cover Network (GLCN) are positive indications that this can be done).

However, in consolidating the data and transferring them to higher levels, the information is aggregated in such a way that it is not possible to correlate and evaluate the impact of actions and processes.

If you look at a cross section of the human brain, looking from the top down, what you see is the human brain is actually broken into three major components that correlate perfectly with the golden circle.

Declining stock markets and low interest rates, have left private pensions around the world more vulnerable than was expected. Moreover, the risks to pension funds may correlate with risks to other economic factors affecting specific groups of workers.

These subjective rankings also correlate highly with the children s reported quality of interactions with their peers and parents. Some 80 of Dutch children report their classmates to be kind and helpful, compared to just 56 of American children.

Today, Catholic and Islamic countries, as well as former French, Spanish, and Portuguese colonies, all of which tend to have Corporatist institutional residues, also correlate with depressed living standards. That is not surprising Corporatist institutions plausibly retard development.

All we have to do is go around and sample, dig into the ground, find those bugs, sequence them, correlate them to the kinds of characteristics we like and don't like that's just a big database and then fertilize.

But the differences between the metabolically healthy obese and the metabolically abnormal obese are inconsistent. And, though age, sex, ethnicity, waist circumference, physical activity, smoking, and alcohol consumption all correlate with metabolic phenotypes, the BMI is unable to distinguish between the two groups.

UNDP is currently utilizing the quarterly review report in Atlas to enable country offices to correlate both financial and project progress information and will explore the possibility of using a weighted aggregate technical implementation rate for monitoring project expenditure and implementation status.

There is very strong evidence that these tend to correlate with wellbeing, and probably cause it, and there are obvious reasons why this should be the case. Being in a country at peace does not of itself make everyone happy but it removes many obvious causes of unhappiness.

The economist Richard Easterlin famously observed that surveys of happiness show surprisingly little evolution in the decades after World War II, despite significant trend income growth. Needless to say, Easterlin s result seems less plausible for very poor countries, where rapidly rising incomes often allow societies to enjoy large life improvements, which presumably strongly correlate with any reasonable measure of overall well being.

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Already, variations in the composition of about 500,000 DNA building blocks (SNPs or Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms), spread over the total length of the DNA and shown to correlate with particular physical and behavioral characteristics or susceptibility to diseases, are being analyzed routinely. Major errors in DNA composition that are responsible for about 3,000 of the 7,000 known genetic diseases can be visualized, and efforts are underway to identify the causes of the remaining 4,000.