For one thing, huge and growing quantities of oil and gas are being uncovered.
It is importing huge and growing quantities of oil, iron ore, coal and other bulky raw materials from the Persian Gulf, Australia, Brazil and Canada, and exporting rising quantities of furniture, consumer electronics, toys and other finished goods to American and European markets.
New data-gathering platforms like the National Ecological Observatory Network and the international Global Earth Observation System of Systems are coming online, and growing quantities of data, spanning ever-larger geographical and time scales, await analysis.
– Yahoo! has made important investments in our core computing infrastructure enabling us to dramatically increase the speed of our search engine updates even while handling vast and growing quantities of data.
By the late 20th and early 21st centuries, the annual number of mountaineering expeditions and tourist excursions to the Himalayas was so large that in some areas the participants were threatening the delicate environmental balance of the mountains by destroying plant and animal life and by leaving behind a growing quantity of refuse.
As biomedical research started to become an information-intensive discipline, the focus of bioinformatics research initially was the creation of data-specific databases to store and enable searches over a growing quantity of data such as sequences [ 4] and gene expression [ 5, 6], or more complex information such as pathways [ 7] and scientific knowledge represented in the literature [ 8].
However, since the 1980s, a growing quantity of manufactured goods and equipment (including mechanical, electrical, and electronic products) has been exported via the city to the world.
"One of the things we've been focused on is our data infrastructure – to design it to handle retailers with a growing quantity of data, and to have an API that will allow it to handle any type of query," explains Han.
The growing quantity of Complementary and Alternative Medicine literature requires databases enabled with increasingly powerful search capabilities.
