In Ireland, where venal politicians granted tax breaks to home builders, joblessness rests in the mid-teens and the landscape is littered forlornly with unoccupied, pretentious homes in decay with no takers.
Barbara Hutton, the heir to the Woolworth fortune and one of the richest women in the world, returned to London in 1945 to find the red brick mansion she had built for herself in decay (it had been used by the air force).
What if actual result of decay would not follow the sequence of 50% remaining rule in which it would take a shorter period to become inactive in decay instead of that 5730 years, using 5730 years as a base to presume that the decay would last in every half year would simply falsify the age that would be computed through radioactive dating method.
For example, for Carbon-14, it would take 5730 years for the 50% of the initial remaining to turn up to lose its capability in radioactive decay in order to have 50% of what has remained after the initial remaining to activate radioactive dating.
He said there were also "major areas of challenge" including disappointing breast feeding rates, large variations in preventable tooth decay in children, high death rates from lung diseases and a large amount of preventable cancers and cardiovascular disease.
Meanwhile, the separate dental survey of five-year-olds confirms 41% of children in Wales experienced dental decay in 2010-11.
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What could happen in beta decay is another elusive issue, but a new particle could be implicated there.
Housing stock is crumbling, and the center city is a study in urban decay: empty lots, boarded-up businesses, foreclosure signs.
There has been a profound loss of cultural creativity, apparent, for example, in the decay of the Islamic city and its time-honoured traditions of craftsmanship, piety and community.
Neighbourhoods such as Parkhead and Shettleston are more desolate, with rows of once-grand Edwardian houses crumbling in picturesque decay, and empty lots and derelict shops a stone's throw from city-centre streets that boast the highest rents in Scotland.
They are dinosaurs, in modern decay.
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In the 1960s, urban decay set in from failed public housing projects and demographic shifts.
At the time of Higgs' discovery, observers were especially interested in the possibility that this mysterious particle didn't decay in exactly the way science had predicted.
At the moment, Mediterranean economies are locked in a spiral of decay while Germany has remained in rude health.
In the meantime, it remains to be seen how these findings will affect the use of radioactive decay in technological applications.
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According to The Independent a brisk walk can help prevent mental decay in the over-sixties.
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There are slight signs of decay in corporate balance sheets, too, suggesting that the credit cycle is becoming less benign.
Dr Krag and colleagues at Esoc, like a number of teams around the world, are now busy modelling the decay in Phobo-Grunt's orbit.
Dental health experts say tooth decay in children remains too high despite latest figures which show a decrease in the number of five-year-olds with problems.
BBC: Tooth decay in children too high, says chief dental officer
It is supposed to reduce decay in fruit that is transported long distances--it takes 40 days, for instance, to ship apples and grapes from Chile to Hong Kong.
But the slow decay in radiation intensity from a tabletop pulsar would make possible extremely long-range transmitters, giving far-off space probes an energy-efficient way to beam information back to earth.
Some of the city's formerly upscale villas and apartments languish in not-so-genteel decay, crowded with multiple families that moved in after the revolution.
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What was once a ramshackle assortment of six homes in a state of arrested decay debuted this summer, fresh from a facelift that sources say cost in the six figures.
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Today, they stand in varying states of decay, ravished by time, vandals and wild weather.
The pions, in turn, will decay rapidly into very high-energy light, or gamma rays.
But the housing is contentious, too, as campaigners say it will divert effort from refurbishing the many properties in Hastings in a state of decay.
Satellite and space expert Dr Stuart Eves stressed the large uncertainties involved in tracking the "decay" of satellite orbits (their slow fall back into the Earth's atmosphere).
There was a pilot investigation program, which, among other things, traced a 1904 fruit-decay crisis in California to cuts in the fruit from stem clippers and the fingernails of handlers (and, along the way, introduced modern packing methods industry-wide).
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