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It has been found that spike is still the first means of scoring, but the proportion in the total is decreased.

There's no sign of such a sudden spike, but Mr. Burbank and his fellow gold bugs are trying to find the best way to profit if it does.

Such a policy could "blunt" a spike of cases, reducing pressure on health resources, he said.

A tramp does not see such a meal twice in the year, in the spike or out of it.

Banks did not trust one another enough to lend to each other, causing a spike in interest rates charged to companies and governments.

The last thing the world needs right now is disruption of one of its busiest shipping lanes and a spike in insurance premiums.

Earlier in this chapter we introduced the concept of impulse response as the output of a filter whose input is a simple spike.

The recent spike in commodity prices has grabbed headlines and sparked wide-ranging debate about just how much higher prices can go.

Some of the immediate causes of the price spike for rice are similar to that of other crops.

She cited China as among a number of countries where there has been 'a spike in threats to the free flow of information' over the past year.

The corona's rays flash out in a brilliant fan that has wispy spike-like rays near the Sun's north and south poles.

"We have seen a bit of a spike because of the primaries, " said Sarah Chambers about attendance at NYU's Republican Club.

The big fear for the company has always been a spike in interest rates.

Also, we had to make our ten, fifteen, or it might be twenty miles to the next spike, where the game would begin anew.

The spike in oil prices might have done it, but it is now reversing.

It sounds simple, but the ability to reveal a spike for such a small amount of money is a bit of a revolution in the study of neurobiology.

I don't see that it's sensible to regard the risk of a population spike as a reason not to give people the best healthcare that we can.

Such a desire to shorten up exposures in the run-up to the resolution of the debt-ceiling debate led overnight repo rates to spike.

That demand spike -- China was stocking up in case it needed backup fuel -- played a role in oil's climb to its record of $145 a barrel.

"In two or three years, if the economy comes on strong, you'll have a huge shortage, and that would create a spike in prices, " he said.

At three I left the workhouse kitchen and went back to the spike. The, boredom in that crowded, comfortless room was now unbearable.

She said there was "tremendous uncertainty" over whether the price spike was temporary or part of a longer-term trend.

One day, a massive man carrying a railroad spike walked into the governor's office and said he needed to meet with me all alone.

As the calendar ticks closer to Feb. 14, the company expects sales volume to spike by nearly 10 times that of a typical day.

A company I'm engaged with has found a specific piece of the H spike flu that sparks the immune system.

Another gladiator team -- a tauren, a troll, and an undead managed by a goblin -- watch Spike and wonder what he's up to.

Bogs steps to Andy , pulls out an awl with a vicious eight -inch spike, gives him a good long look at it.

Several global mining giants are ready to invest in anticipation of a spike in demand this year.

Such a spike would be felt by businesses and homeowners in catastrophe-prone areas around the world, including Florida and California.

The bargaining power of these architects is buttressed by the spike in popular appreciation for architecture as an art form.

In wet areas, mold allergies will spike, while in drier areas pollens and other airborne irritants will become more of a problem, he said.

Decapitated enemy did, spike special brigade began big counter-offensive, thoroughly will armed to the teeth modernization the enemy attack.

The economic data for March did not show a strong spike, just the same growth that has been on track all along.

The spike continued to dim the outlook for the stock market, as share prices fell around the world.

Deflation fears might have receded but were replaced by a spike in food and gasoline priced that has also undermined domestic growth.

Experts warned the significant spike in couples splitting up could be the beginning of a wave of divorces.

Scientists estimate there will be a spike in the number of such solar eruptions over the next three to five years.

The huge expansion in the monetary base will have disguised this, showing up in a spike in loan-to-deposit ratios.

Still, it was remembered afterwards, that one of the jailers had said: "It would be better to let him have only a wooden spike. "

With one swift motion, he raised it above his head and drove the spike into the supplicant's back with fierce intensity.

It's easy to shrug off the current spike in inflation as temporary.

No matter how the caltrop tire spike was tossed on a roadway or airport runway, it would land with a tire-puncturing prong facing upward.

He told me he never entered a spike unless driven there by hunger, sleeping under hedges and behind ricks in preference.

Spike pulls out his sword and tells the orc that the elves are under his protection, like, way to be arrogant there.

The boss is bound to question the for the office party, so let's spike his guns by pointing out that he's getting the drinks very cheaply.

The poor, however, do not take extreme price crises calmly any more, as the 2008 price spike revealed.

But by the time you get up to level five, you'll be dealing with roadblocks, spike strips, helicopters, and federal-driven Corvettes.

Lord Browne said the price spike was not caused by a lack of supply, as inventories of oil were actually rising.

Invited to display it, he lifts a heavy stone slab onto a metal spike in the ground and spins it to a blur with a bamboo stick.

The spike in complaints is partly the result of a new law that requires Japanese companies to report serious product-related accidents.

"The searches would spike every time she was back in the news, " Vera Chan, senior editor at Yahoo! said.

Describing the moment, he added: 'I had just rounded a curve and was looking directly into the sunrise when I noticed the solar spike.

One of two, mutually exclusive, situations: either the neuron has or has not a spike travelling down its axon.

Lady Elizabeth: These were the rooms for the king's closest friend. His head now rots on a spike.

Asia's growing economy and a demand for higher-end housing is to blame for a general price spike in housing throughout Asia.

But these measures did not spike most dramatically when there was bad news about the labour market.

The output part of a neuron. It has sensitive membrane, which can carry the spike ( or action potential ) as a localized, highspeed signal.

That was one reason for a recent spike (see chart) in the number of "people of concern" to the UNHCR.

She said defaults in alt-A mortgages may spike higher since they became popular relatively late in the mortgage boom.

Ms Morgan anticipates recruitment will be lower in finance this year, although there has been a hiring spike in private wealth management.

The spike of a helmet projected from the middle of his silken turban and he wore a shirt of chain mail.

To misquote the great comic genius Spike Milligan: the last time I edited a book I swore I would never do another one.

Just as the Japanese spike was starting to fade in late October, demand fired up in China.

I expect it to spike to new highs, but then end the year lower, as rising rates take the steam out of the enthusiasm for gold.

He said unrest in the Middle East and unfair monetary practices by "some countries" caused the upward spike.

Timing could be accelerated by a disruption in underlying economic conditions and a sustained spike in risk aversion.

The perturbation was a single extra 'spike, ' or nerve impulse, introduced to a single neuron in the brain of a rat.

Meanwhile, Spike whacks off the hand of his troll opponent, chops off the undead's head, and stabs the tauren in the shoulder.

That insulin spike also interferes with leptin, the hormone secreted by fat cells that should tell the body to stop eating.

But today's spike is only part of a broader set of worries.

And this year's spike in the consumer-price index, which rose by 2% in February, seemed bearable at a time of rapid growth.

The first camp worries that the lofty bill for a barrel of oil is damaging the world economy and a further price spike could destroy demand.

Among the implications is the rapid spike in oil prices and its potential to trigger another global economic slowdown.

Indeed the collapse of oil prices, one of the few reasons around for economic cheer, may be setting the stage for another spike.

That much of an infusion of the well-established greenhouse gas should have been plenty to spike temperatures.

In the singles, unless Spike, do not put the ball in the midfield in each other as much as possible to play two horns.

She warned people to be prepared for a sharp spike in oil prices in 2009, adding "it will drive up prices of cars and houses as well. "

His body might be in the spike, but his spirit soared far away, in the pure aether of the middle classes.

Figure comes with Brute Plasma Rifle and Spike Grenade, and features glow-in-the-dark paint.

A spike in inflation could have the same effect, as it would probably lead to a rise in interest rates and reduced lending.

a metal spike with a hole for a rope; mountaineers drive it into ice or rock to use as a hold.

The Spike Video Game Awards (VGA) is an award show hosted by Spike TV that recognizes the best computer and video games of the year.

If tensions with Iran over its nuclear programme spike, for instance, an oil-supply shock could once more cause havoc.

Well, we've gotta give this guy a name, and all I know about him so far is that he uses a spiky club, so we'll call him Spike.

There are unbranched plants with flowers sessile at nodes of the main stem that do not form lateral spike like inflorescences.

Though repossessions by banks were down in April, a spike is expected this year.

The global spike in grain prices over the past year is in large part due to the impact on grain supplies of the growing demand for meat.

Oil is but one of many commodities and financial assets to spike this year as the world economic recovery has gathered pace.

Mr Geffen says the spike was mainly driven by an increase in the price of food, and pork in particular.

In the second quarter, it was inventory restocking in the electronics sector and a spike in relatively volatile pharmaceutical output.

Too much electricity, as when lightning or other electrical disturbance affects a power line, may cause a voltage surge, or spike.

More disappointing was that its bottom line only grew 2. 9% to HK$286 million due to a spike in costs.

Rather, the latest spike is the result of tighter market conditions this summer and concerns about insufficient supplies.

Indeed, observers point out that this is the first time China has really had to deal with a large spike in oil prices.

He observes the curious Soviet idea that it could predict a nuclear attack by looking for a spike in prices for blood donations in Britain.

Once attached, the antibodies prevent the spike from injecting the virus's genes into human cells, rendering it unable to replicate.

a stout lever with a sharp spike; used for handling logs.

She also tells Spike that his amnesia seems to be caused by dark magic.

Copper prices may rise in a 'super-spike, ' he said.

No, the additonal energy translates to a high current spike for a few microseconds once the spark has occurred.

What has a bright green hair cut in the shape of a spike and roams the streets of London looking out of place?

Bettina Luescher is with the U. N. World Food Program. She says the spike in food prices has led to concerns about political stability.

The model can be used to forecast the system marginal price and 'price spike' forecast.

This eliminates a key obstacle to using depreciation as a recovery tool, since an Argentinean-style debt spike is not a concern.

The huge spike in global commodity price inflation is prima facie evidence that the global economy is still growing too fast.

There was also an ice spike and footprints, said Sgt. Gerry Tiffany, spokesman for the Hood River County Sheriff's Office.

It would spike into the teens during times of economic turmoil, but then settle at seven or eight percent when things returned to normal.

They found a spike coinciding with a drop in mammoth numbers some 15, 000 years ago.

If you're wondering about that spike in federal jobs last spring, it was largely due to a round of temporary hiring for the 2010 census.

When an owl flies, the tiny spike on its wings break down the air into smaller spirals called microturbulence.

Not every unexpected spike in the water flow is the result of a leak, says Mr White.

The investment bank said each subsequent price spike would be followed by one higher than the last.

A tail is a one-day spike in the direction of a trend, followed by a reversal.

Some global ills, like the spike in oil and food prices, can be quantified.

Any sign of peripheral weakness is then accompanied by a sell-off in European stocks and a spike in FX volatility.

countries, economies, that in real time are seeing their borrowing costs spike in no small part due to what the ratings agencies say.

A spike, a young buck, walks into a clearing near the feeder.

Spike protein of coronavirus is considered to be the major antigen and contains many potential antigenicity domains.

If you can move the noise spike out of the clock window, then the spike no longer matters.

In 2008, constrictions in the food supply chain led to a spike in global prices and riots around the world.

Government planners were reported to have asked state oil companies to beef up diesel supplies to meet a seasonal spike in demand.

The preparation is mainly made of the following raw materials: hooked uncaria, kudzu vine root, ptunella spike, motherwort and peach kernel.

Take the oil spike in 2008, it's probably true the movement from $110 to $130 might have been speculation.

The agency said it would be difficult to predict whether the AIDS epidemic might spike again.

Having a hook instead of a spike ; used for handling logs .

The automatic spike detection in EEG is significant in both diagnosing illness and alleviating the heavy labour force of the doctor.

Rather than accept those losses , it kept moving back the positions in an effort to ride out the price spike .

BACK in 2005, in an apparent flight of fancy, analysts at Goldman Sachs predicted a "super-spike" in the oil price to $105 a barrel.

So if China's foremost concern is the safety of its US investments, then what's behind the post-downturn spike in Chinese hacking activity?

However, you should experiment with such strategies before competition because some people do not perform well after a blood glucose spike.

Normally the whip to get a deficit-reduction deal is fear of the bond market's producing a spike in interest rates and borrowing costs.

And you may well find his head upon a spike.

At this point, a massive power spike occurred and the core overheated.

You need a spike in blood pressure if you're going to run, to speedily deliver oxygen to your muscles.

The sun beats down on the spike of rice.

Spike came, too value, and a mask cost-effective products to be high, it is worth sharing as their own.

"A big spike up won't hold, a big spike down won't hold, so this small plus and minus is a good thing, " he said.

The overall result is likely to be a temporary inflationary spike.

Valeera tells Spike that Rehgar picked them to be gladiators since they reminded him of himself in some way.

Then I would jump higher and higher until I could spike the ball again.

There has also been a spike in demand for gold bars and coins (such as from the American Precious Metals Exchange).

Influenza A contains the key strains, which are distinguished by spike like features known as antigens.

Whereas the fertility rate is now below replacement, the problem in the past was a spike in unwanted pregnancies.

Other studies have suggested that alcohol may be a reason behind the spike in suicides and perhaps even falls.

Since people will be traveling from all over to attend the royal wedding, it can be assumed oil consumption will see a spike.

And as the company moves into foreign markets, the capital expenditures will spike.

Diode D3 must be a high-voltage fast-recovery diode as it is subjected to twice the supply voltage plus a leakage inductance spike.

Volatility could spike as the U. S. and U. K. authorities wind down their bond purchases.

This measure was not around during previous great bear markets but the spike in volatility in recent years took it to all-time highs.

With desperation like this, new cases of HIV are almost guaranteed to spike.

Holding the load at that rate allows you to measure system performance after the system recovers from the initial spike.

Orderly flower or not orderly flower, bisexual or unisexual, platoon rank in all sorts of inflorescence , it is raceme or spike normally.

Sam 'Spike' Witwicky: Gentlemen. . . let me introduce you to my friend: Optimus Prime!

However, there is so much unused capacity as of now that even a sudden spike in demand is unlikely to greatly change gas prices.

In downtown Geneva, Daniel Loeffler of the city's Economic Development Office has also seen a spike in interest, this time from companies.

In that case, the price spike would be something like a dead-cat bounce.

DO NOT enter a pool without spike heels specifically designed for swimming.

And, possibly showing that some people's sense of humor is more twisted than others, there's a spike in breakups on April Fool's Day.

The magnitude of the spike and of the reversal varies in different heart tissues.

That does not mean that a price spike is just around the corner, however.

Spike sterility rate was most sensitive to soil water storage, followed by TKW, and grain number per spike is the least.

Looking at a close-up of the temperature spike, we see distinct troughs right next to the spike.

The tip of the spike mutates continually, which means that flu vaccines must be redefined every year.

The brunt of the blast is projected straight ahead, forcing a powerful spike of metal, usually copper, into and through the armour.

Flooding the body with foods like these will spike blood sugar levels and won't help you relieve stress.

The only thing that surprises me about China's spike in inflation is that it took so long to show itself.

Away from the glitzy dining at the Strip mega-resorts, meal prices drop and your cholesterol may spike to previously unimaginable levels.

But the exact reason for the oxygen spike has been a long-standing puzzle.

You got to spike those, Focker! You got to spike.

This signal is not handled by the normal borehole correction and may result in a spike on the log.

Debt advice agencies are describing a sudden spike in inquiries in the last couple of months.

Started in 2003, the Spike TV Video Game Awards garnered much attention, since video game awards were not common prior to its introduction.

Even before the financial meltdown over the past month, car sales had begun to contract because of the recent spike in fuel prices.

Despite a recent spike in violence in the region, negotiations continue in Doha between the rebel factions and the Sudanese government.

It resulted in at least a tenfold traffic spike for most of the 32 sites involved.

A rise in late confirmations accompanied the spike in trading last summer, suggesting that the plumbing still lacks scalability (see chart).

A short spike or spiked wheel that attaches to the heel of a rider's boot and is used to urge a horse forward.

Tillage could improve and increase the length of Spike and small panicles.

Russia 's wheat export ban accelerates the risk of a price spike and again undermines the trust in food trade .

Inflorescence a panicle, loosely contracted to dense and spike like, often plumose, branches usually whorled, bearing numerous spikelets.

These factors, they say, will lead to diminishing returns on capital and a spike in bad debts, eventually pulling China's growth rate down.

Markets such as the U. S. and China, which grow most of the rice they consume, are little affected by the spike in Asian export prices.

Each fuzzy hair looked like a "loo brush, " said Rind, while every spigot resembled a "small spike. "

First, policymakers and investors need to shake off the belief that the current inflation spike is temporary.

U. S. , NATO and Afghan forces have faced a dramatic spike in Taliban attacks in Afghanistan during the past two years.

Example: Any change to the mainline should quickly flow on down to Team A and Team B, and from Team A on down to A spike.

The spike in male sexual harassment claims coincides with a recession that has hit men harder than women.

The damage rate of big-spike wheat varieties was greatest, followed by middle-spike varieties and multiple-spike varieties.

So far this year gold prices have climbed 34% vs. a 98% spike in palladium, a 63% surge in silver, and a 56% jump in platinum.

A metal frame with a spike or spikes, attached to a shoe or boot to prevent slipping, especially on ice.

That forecast may prove to be conservative if January's spike in sales is any indication, the article said.

Necessary: Riflemen to your blue bunker, Riflemen to scout your opponent, Saboteur to capture your opponent's Tiberium Spike.

A sharp spike in bank lending starting in late 2008 was the central element to Beijing's effort to escape the global financial crisis.

The simulated peripheral activity was characterized using measures derived from spike probabilities of the AN.

"At the beginning, people were quite skeptical. In the past two months, the spike we've seen is incredible. "

Only the imbecile loitered at the spike gates, until the Tramp Major had to chase him away.

When resource consumption exceeds the threshold level during a spike in workload demands, additional resource instances are allocated.

Valeera runs up, hugs Spike, and thanks him for saving Broll.

At this point, I define my Version 2. 0 iteration lengths around the maintenance spike for Version 1. 0.

Yet it is the differences between today's food-price spike and earlier ones that are striking, not the similarities.

The first thing that you might want to ensure is that this spike is indeed generated by your application, and not from somewhere else.

The latter have been critical in shielding emerging market consumers from the dramatic spike in global food and energy costs.

9 hr Hydrogen explodes within the containment structure, causing a pressure spike on the control room gauges and an audible thud.

Even without obvious clinical seizures, may also prove lower seizure threshold, which appears EEG spikes or spike and wave discharges.

The large spike in the Router task was a mass mailing, another example of a workload spike for which you must plan.

The variety of equation type and multiple spike type were more economic than weighty spike type under general production condition, . . .

When do lenders price additional risk to federal borrowing, leading to a damaging spike in interest rates?

The last spike occurred during the last gasp of the credit bubble.

Note that Brazil took a particular beating during the recent downward market spike.

The cables will need insulation strong enough to contain this spike.

The parametric study revealed that increasing the spike area would increase the pullout strength of the artificial disc.

Spike Lee, if ever there was a film project calling your name .

China has been raising interest rates to stop an inflation spiral which threatens to cause a spike in prices of raw materials and energy.

For wheat, the improvement of spike differentiation is an important approach to actualize the high yield target.

That could limit the next spike in commodity prices once the economy recovers.

inflorescence of a terminal single raceme, spike-like, smooth, sub-sylindrical and slightly bent inwards.

The main characteristics of lax mutant as follows: there is no significant difference between wild-type except spike.

If you look closely at the server, you see a small spike in disk activity.

How they would react to a significant price spike, rather than a physical disruption of shipments to China, is also unclear.

But could they have predicted this unprecedented spike less than halfway through the Earth's life?

The researchers said that despite the spike in small fish, the overall supply of fish is not increasing to meet human demand.

Tough economic times have not yet translated into a spike in sackings of chief executives of the world's biggest companies.

Once a programme or clip finds popularity in the blogosphere, the broadcaster can sit back and watch traffic spike.

Recent weeks have brought a spike in chatter about the prospect of an Israeli military strike on Iran's nuclear installations.

Whole grain fiber is best, since it results in a lower spike in insulin levels, which also reduces the risk of diabetes.

The spike check is performed to identify intervals with questionably high usage relative to the surrounding intervals .

The fundamental reason for electricity price spike is that the supply and demand must be matched on a second-by-second basis.

Inflorescences axillary, on leafless axillary shoots, shoots slender, spike like, often branched.

Iraqi officials reported a spike in civilian and security force deaths in July, although American officials dispute those figures.

Inflorescence a terminal spike, many flowered, enveloped while young by a membranous spathe.

In Asia in early 2008 a spike in the price of rice led to widespread unrest and desperate attempts by governments to secure more supplies.

If he cut rates; the dollar will fall, commodities will spike, and people will starve.

When the external stimulation of bipolar neurons was changed, the pattern of the neurons spike presented bursting and spiking.

For the US and Europe, however, still struggling to build on a fragile recovery, a spike in commodity prices will be further unwelcome news.

"Bulging armour" , as this system is sometimes called, also increases the distance a spike must travel to enter the crew compartment.

While many see speculative investment as a source of volatility, it might actually help prevent a spike, says Mr. Verleger.

The Chinese state media predicted this summer that there would be a spike in sales.

But the population spike has also brought the problems of the city to these areas, most notably petty crime.

It has also acquired the monikers "spike grenade" , "table leg" , and "nail bomb" .

The issue in economic terms is whether the current spike in unemployment is structural or cyclical.

However, some scholars argue that a spike in selfishness among young people is, like the story of Narcissus, a myth.

There are also fewer investors willing to bet on an unproven manager given the spike in market volatility.

The discharge of circuits' parasitic capacitances leads to a high current spike during turning on.

Glumes obscurely keeled proximally, indistinctly so distally; spike rachis usually tough and not disarticulating.

Spike Frequency Adaptation and Negative Feedback Linearization.

Today's (Monday's) price spike reverses weeks of declining oil prices as demand fell when high prices forced consumers to cut consumption.

Emerging economies may be hit harder by a spike, since they use more oil per unit of output than rich countries do (see chart 2).

Supplying the huge spike of energy needed for this method has proven difficult.

Second, the premium paid to hold the English-law governed bonds is quite small, except when default fears spike.

Inflorescences axillary, often cauliflorous, compound spike like or racemelike panicles, pendent, many flowered.