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Not surprisingly, there is an inverse relationship between BMI and proportion of household income needed for buying food in most countries.
From rodents through the primate series to humans there is a progressive reduction in the proportion of functional olfactory receptor genes (Rouquier et al.
Santa Barbara, suggests that partying and academic apathy increase in direct proportion to family income, that whites party more in college than any other racial group, and that students who had to "sacrifice" to attend college spend the most time on their academics (see the Chronicle of Higher Education , Nov. 25, 1998).
It is well known that the origins of many words still elude the most determined researchers in etymology, but, taken as a whole, I should imagine that the proportion of idiomatic expressions without confirmed etymologies may be higher than that of words whose provenance has not been established.
Generally, the proportion of resistant virus varied only three-fold between tests when compared to the control virus (data not shown), however a continual increase in the proportion of resistant virus was seen with the sample 30 passages (VCV treatment group).