Kidnapping--a hideous activity now more likely to occur in Brazil and Mexico--has declined about 90%.
One piece of Scottish research found that heart attacks were more likely to occur on a Monday.
Other studies have shown that abuse is three times more likely to occur when a couple experiences financial strain.
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Accidents are more likely to occur during the first few months after a teenager has received a driver's license.
There are suggestions it can make some diseases both more likely to occur and more likely to be fatal.
On the one hand, these types of filtered searches are more likely to occur when a recruiter is seeking highly specialized talent.
Lupus is ten times more common in women and four times more likely to occur in Afro-Caribbean and Asian people than whites.
Warren Financial has built an index such that when the reading reaches 100, the economic disaster has become more likely to occur than to be averted.
Merely getting older doesn't make mental health problems more likely to occur, Rabins said, noting that middle age is the most common time for onset of depression.
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Preeclampsia is more likely to occur during the first pregnancy.
What's more likely to occur, experts say, is a mild reform, such as a law that requires legislators to attach their names to earmarked projects in the text of appropriations bills.
In other words, they must ask the question: are autoimmune diseases or their symptoms more likely to occur among women who have had breast implants than among women who have not?
This may be more likely to occur when you first wake up in the morning, after they have dried up a bit and become smaller than the pits where they were lodged.
The research also shows that boys launch both more verbal and more physical attacks on others than girls do, and that bullying is more likely to occur in small communities and classes.
About 24 million people in the U.S. have diabetes, and 90 percent of those cases are type 2 diabetes, which is more likely to occur with aging, excess weight and a sedentary lifestyle.
The secrecy and the cult-like power that Degollado held over his followers made sexual abuse that much more likely to occur and made his victims and witnesses to his crimes that much less likely to come forward.
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The changes were made because it was discovered that infective endocarditis is more likely to occur after frequent exposure to bacteria from routine activities such as chewing food or brushing one's teeth than from occasional dental, gastrointestinal tract or genitourinary tract procedures.
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The authors also point out that the severity of their CTE was tied to how the individuals had played football, which suggests that CTE is more likely to occur as a result of repeated mild injuries, rather than one or two severe ones.
Olympus' iHS (Intelligent, High-Sensitivity and High-Speed) Technology powers a number of features on the STYLUS SZ-16 iHS including Hand-Held Starlight mode which helps users at night, where image blur is more likely to occur, by capturing multiple images and stitching them together into a single, crisp, breathtaking photo without the use of a tripod.
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But there are genes that are more likely to occur in Europeans, who are descended from a relatively tiny population that made its way up the continent, than in Africans. (There is also far more genetic diversity in Africa than anywhere else.) And sometimes these genes are medically important enough that guessing at their presence based on skin color is worthwhile to some doctors.
Thankfully, these far more fundamental changes are likely to occur faster than they could have done even five years ago, with the digital breadcrumbs of all our journeys available and openly questionable in the months and years to come.
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But a far bigger challenge lies ahead: preparing for a future in which storms like Sandy and Irene are likely to occur more frequently.
The increase is likely to be due, in part, to increased reporting but it is also more than likely that many errors occur because staff are over-stretched.
Many of the connections are based on simple, surface-level engagements that are more likely to be forgotten shortly after they occur.
In addition, school officials who understand their obligations and know how to help are more likely to be trusted by students and sought after for assistance when bullying and harassment occur.
Job transitions occur much more frequently, and with ACA implementation, health insurance providers are likely to alter their network of physicians.
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They said that cold Decembers are now half as likely to occur versus 50 years ago, whereas warm Novembers are now 62 times more likely.
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