However, due to the strong correlation with biological and contextual determinants, the response called for interdisciplinary and multisector collaborations.
All these indicators show at best a stagnation of the position of France while other countries are progressing and that higher education and research are regarded as determinants of growth and competitiveness.
However, startups are appearing that provide tools to inform and streamline such decision-making processes, such as Noodle.org, which helps people plot out their education path, factoring in money, interests and numerous other determinants.
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Of particular interest is the book's discussion of the genetic determinants of fitness and how, as a consequence, roughly 10% of those tethered to treadmills will never be buffed and toned.
And social comparisons are more powerful determinants of life satisfaction in poorer societies than in affluent countries.
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The determinants are complicated, and not always susceptible to measurement.
"OK, scientists are still arguing about the dietary determinants of breast cancer and aren't too worried about fat, but they do worry about body weight, " the professor of nutrition, food studies and public health posted on her blog.
With the global clean energy economy emerging as one of the largest economic opportunities of the 21st century, government policy and public investment will be critical determinants of which countries come out on top in the race to attract private sector investment in clean energy technologies.
It's an article of faith among French winemakers that the composition of the soil and its mineral components are the most important determinants of the character of the resulting wine.
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The determinants of share prices are complex, and central bankers are no better qualified than anybody else to judge them.
They consider inflation's principal determinants to be the gap between aggregate supply and demand and the public's expectations.
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Climate change will affect, in profoundly adverse ways, some of the most fundamental determinants of health: food, air, and water.
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But questions like these, and many others that are ordinarily impossible for all but the most central participant to answer at the outset, are among the key determinants whether a case is prosecuted criminally, and if so, who gets prosecuted.
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"It's likely to continue to increase because of the determinants of work stress: changes in working conditions and the government spending, " he added.
"Aesthetic standards have become one of the primary determinants of which species are deemed worthy for conservation and this has to be looked at, " he said.
We will have a lot to say about the scheme in the weeks ahead, because, like it or not, taxes are vitally important determinants of national even social welfare, not to mention of the lifestyle and mentality of individuals.
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Research assistant Angela Spencer said the results suggest that a mother's attitudes and behaviour with respect to her own cervical screening attendance or to preventive programmes in general, are important determinants in her decision to vaccinate her daughter, particularly at younger ages.
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