Positive feedback tends to amplify trends over time, while negative feedback tends to reduce trends over time.
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And while both ventilatory threshold and maximum capacity can be slowly increased, people have to have enough positive experiences to stick with exercise over time so they actually can boost these limits.
And now we've seen positive growth for the first time in over a year in each of the numbers that were put out for the third quarter.
The connection between the positive battery cable and the fuse box could degrade over time.
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He proposes that Japan should first set a target for the level of consumer prices, one that would rise over time to allow for a small positive inflation rate.
This concept, which appears on the surface to be quite benign, is typically used to compare the costs of acquiring a customer (often referred to as SAC, which stands for Subscriber Acquisition Costs) with the discounted positive cash flows that will come from that customer over time.
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VACS, a study that includes HIV-positive as well as HIV-negative veterans, follows participants over time and evaluates the health of veterans.
In fact, the positive trading bias of the stock comes at a time of maximum pessimism over the prospects of the company.
In the short term, the newcomers may cost more than they contribute, but as their job and language skills improve and their earnings rise over time, the net lifetime impact of most immigrants is positive.
Finally, consider homebuilding, which is taking off all across the country for the first time in over five years, creating a potential for positive opportunities associated with everything related to a home, from Home Depot (HD) and Owens Corning (OC), to Lennar (LEN) and Whirlpool (WHR).
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IPOdesktop.com President Francis Gaskins said that, over time, if Facebook doesn't deliver good earnings and other positive growth measures, institutional buying may drop off, especially once the company's lockup period expires and even more shares come into the market.
While their parents and grandparents will be upset to see a 5% or 7% drop in their portfolio during a down year, a 25 year-old has time to let the down years occur, knowing the chances that they will see positive returns over a 30 or 40 year investment are better.
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Rolston, who took over on Wednesday after the Sabres fired long-time coach Lindy Ruff, tried to put a positive spin on Buffalo's performance in his debut.
By his own account, he is trying to strike a more positive profile this go-round, obviously seeking to sand away some of the rough edges left over from his time in the national spotlight in the 1990s.
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Stated differently, if Simon was really betting that inflation-adjusted prices of a basket of commodity prices have a significantly negative trend over long periods of time, and Ehrlich was betting that the slope of that line was significantly positive, I think Simon wins the bet.
The 10- and 20-city composites gained 8.6% and 9.3% on a year-over-year basis, with every metropolitan area clocking in a second consecutive month of positive growth for the first time since early 2005.
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