It's a 10 billion a year discontinuity in the global transport system.

Instead of having Vaclav Smil's massively fatal discontinuity of life, we can ensure the continuity of life.

This is part of cybercrime which is a 2 trillion a year discontinuity in the global economy.

In 2000, the Program for the Humanization of Labor and Birth (PHPN) was established in order to improve the quality of prenatal care and to address the problem of the discontinuity between assistance during pregnancy and the birth.

According to conventional theory, markets tend towards equilibrium, function without any discontinuity in the sequence of prices, and deviations occur in a random fashion. As a result, market risks can be equated with the risks confronting individual market participants.

But markets are subject to imbalances that individual participants may ignore if they think they can offload their positions on someone else. Regulators, by contrast, cannot ignore these imbalances, because if too many participants are on the same side, positions cannot be liquidated without causing a discontinuity or, worse, financial collapse.

Although the low per capita income adjustment was also an integral part of the methodology, consideration should be given to the problem of the discontinuity experienced by Member States moving up through the threshold of the low per capita income adjustment between scales, especially where that led to substantial increases in the assessment rates of the countries concerned.

Whatever the cause, the boom seems an unlikely capstone to a century of war, ferment, and revolution, and only adds to the sense of discontinuity that characterizes modern China. Certainly, few observers looking in 1978 at the smoldering embers of the Cultural Revolution, or at the seeming ruination of the post 1989 years, thought China would emerge as the lightning rod of the world s developmental hopes.