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- Dictionarydeflated/dɪˈfleɪtɪd/
adjective
- 1. having been emptied of air or gas: "a deflated balloon"
- 2. having suddenly lost confidence or optimism: "the news left him feeling utterly deflated"
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2 days ago · Most frequently, the term "inflation" refers to a rise in a broad price index representing the overall price level for goods and services in the economy. The consumer price index (CPI), the personal consumption expenditures price index (PCEPI) and the GDP deflator are some examples of broad price indices.
2 days ago · A growing body of research examines how institutional arrangements affect policy representation. Early work on the subject considered the “congruence” between positions of the public and the government immediately after elections, beginning with Powell’s (2000) classic study. 1 More recent research examines “responsiveness” of governments as public preferences change, some of which ...
2 days ago · Deserts have been defined and classified in a number of ways, generally combining total precipitation, number of days on which this falls, temperature, and humidity, and sometimes additional factors.
2 days ago · Movie S1 shows the shape synthesis process and locomotion behavior over several iterations. As shown in Fig. 2A, the initial structure could not locomote because it inflated and deflated uniformly. As the optimization proceeded, leg-like structures were formed on the front side (front leg) and underside of the chamber (back leg).
3 days ago · In this paper we first define the class of Generalized Inflated Power Series Distributions (GIPSDs) which contain the inflated discrete distributions most often seen in practice as special cases. We describe the hitherto unkown exponential family structure of GIPSDs and use this to derive closed-form, easy to program, conditional and unconditional maximum likelihood estimators for essentially ...
1 day ago · The cuffs were inflated for 5 min, then deflated for 5 min to allow for reperfusion. This was repeated three times on each leg, for a total of 15 min occlusion per leg. The CON group lied supine for 30 min with occlusion cuffs placed on the proximal thigh, but they were only inflated to a non-therapeutic pressure (20 mmHg).
1 day ago · Lain gives a simple summary of Trotsky's definition of fascism - as a society in which worker organization has been destroyed and there is an all-pervasive administrative state that penetrates public psychology as to preclude independent resistance - and proceeds to argue that by this definition, most of the world already is fascist.
