But the RCN says it can see no justification for a decline in nursing numbers at a time of increasing demand for care, with an ageing population, and growing numbers or patients with long-term conditions such as diabetes and kidney disease.
To test the theory, researchers gave 132 participants one of three tasks: using tweezers to remove small pieces from slots in the Japanese equivalent of the board game Operation, counting the appearances of a digit in a block of numbers, and a reaction time test.
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For example, if a mobile account opened in Shanghai, and sparingly used for local calls, begins making numerous calls from Beijing to a few numbers in a distant western province, then it is likely that a phone thief is calling friends back home.
First Minister Mr Jones has previously been critical of the airport after a slump in passenger numbers from a peak of two million in 2007.
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Just before Christmas, the Welsh government confirmed it wanted to buy Cardiff Airport from the Spanish-owned Abertis group after a slump in passenger numbers from a peak of two million in 2007.
In essence we had a dramatic decline in sales numbers, which is not a good thing.
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Some scientists have argued that the winter conditions this would have induced could have posed an immense challenge to early humans and have pointed to some genetic studies that indicated our ancestors likely experienced a dramatic drop in numbers - a population "bottleneck" - around the time of the eruption.
So, each Wednesday in the just-concluded spring semester, Anderson and a dozen other Missouri students crunched numbers in a campus computer lab, the male students' agrarian roots betrayed only by baseball caps sporting farm equipment logos.
The company said it was in response to a decline in passenger numbers.
Last month the castle's owner, Historic Scotland, blamed the wet weather for a drop in visitor numbers, after recording a 9% decrease over the summer.
The Scottish government has pointed to a growth in spending by visitors from North America, and a growth in numbers from there in the final quarter of 2012.
MSPs are due to debate the future make-up of the parliament on Wednesday but they will be mindful that only a change in the Scotland Act at Westminster will prevent a reduction in their numbers.
So while a small group in numbers, hardly a small group in terms of revenue.
With a grade sometimes determining whether or not a student got the university place they wanted, there was a big increase in the numbers asking for A-level re-marks.
Across the UK, a record number of people are in work after another fall in unemployment and a further dip in the numbers claiming jobseeker's allowance.
There are still more than a million young people not in education, employment or training (Neet) in England, despite a dip in the numbers.
But Waldrum and his colleagues carried out a theoretical calculation of the risk of loss of life due to lightning in a similar building frequented by large numbers of people, in a similar setting - assuming the lack of any lightning protection.
Some aid workers talk of 160, 000 Syrians in Jordan alone, with a spike in the numbers of orphans and lone children arriving.
These come amid a backdrop of falling numbers of people attending Anglican churches nationally, although in Devon there has been a "gentle growth" in numbers to 27, 100 in 2011, the latest figures available.
For professions and businesses in which women constitute a percentage of power in the teens, women can double and then re-double their numbers in just a few short years.
So staff are less confident in their PE teaching abilities and there has been a steep drop in the numbers of children doing two or more hours exercise a week.
Extra staff have been called in after a big rise in patient numbers, the hospital said.
There are organised far right groupings, but more probably in significant in numbers is just a body of people from various different clubs around the country who wouldn't dare, or possibly in some cases, wouldn't even dream of voicing such sort of sentiments in the context of their own home club's support.
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Meanwhile, Khoza abandoned his candidacy after an early vote on a separate matter indicated that the numbers in a bi-partisan election were not in his favour.
What is more, rich countries can expect a surge in the numbers of retired folk, starting in a decade's time, as the world's baby boomers start withdrawing assets for consumption.
So while there are just two variables in the strategy, a lot of data is contained in those two numbers, giving a pretty well-rounded look at a company and its shares.
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Environmentalists treasure Plum Island as a home to rare plants, a site where seals rest on rocks in large numbers, a stopover point for migratory birds and a habitat for endangered species like the roseate tern.
What was anticipated to be a 3 percent rise in month-over-month sales numbers came in at a shocking 15.6 percent, just as the Richmond Fed announced that manufacturing took an unexpectedly good turn to the upside.
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Sending the jury back to their room to further consider the allegation, Mr Justice Sweeney told them there were occasionally trials in which a jury could not agree in sufficient numbers one way or another or found themselves unable to reach a verdict at all.
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