standard rate of consumption
1consumption — /keuhn sump sheuhn/, n. 1. the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction. 2. the amount consumed: the high consumption of gasoline. 3. Econ. the using up of goods and services having an exchangeable value. 4. Pathol. a. Older Use.… …
2Consumption tax — Taxation An aspect of fiscal policy …
3Standard of living in the People's Republic of China — Before 1949 the Chinese economy was characterized by widespread poverty, extreme income inequalities, and endemic insecurity of livelihood. Though it has been argued that in the Ming Qing Period the standards of living reached and stayed at a… …
4Standard of living in Japan — In the postwar decades, Japanese consumers have benefited from the nation s economic growth, while in turn they have stimulated the economy through demand for sophisticated products, loyalty to domestically produced goods, and saving and pooling… …
5alcohol consumption — Introduction the drinking of beverages containing ethyl alcohol. alcoholic beverages are consumed largely for their physiological and psychological effects, but they are often consumed within specific social contexts and may even be a part of… …
6World energy resources and consumption — In order to directly compare world energy resources and consumption of energy, this article uses SI units and prefixes and measures energy rate (or power) in watts (W) and amounts of energy in joules (J). One watt is one joule per second. In 2005 …
7Bit rate — Bit rates Decimal prefixes (SI) Name Symbol Multiple kilobit per second kbit/s 103 megabit per second Mbit/s 106 gigabit per second Gbit/s 109 …
8BR Standard Class 8 — Infobox Locomotive powertype=Steam name = BR Standard Class 8 caption = 71000 Duke of Gloucester as preserved. Note the Caprotti valve gear. designer = Robert Riddles builder = BR Crewe Works builddate = 1954 totalproduction = 1 whytetype = 4 6 2 …
9Marginal rate of substitution — In economics, the marginal rate of substitution is the rate at which a consumer is ready to give up one good in exchange for another good while maintaining the same level of utility. Contents 1 Marginal rate of substitution as the slope of… …
10Age-standardized mortality rate — Age standardized mortality rates are used to compare the mortality rates of places without being skewed by the difference in age distributions from place to place. Standardized rates are favored over Crude Rates because they take age groups into… …
