The statistics on attack trends have long been a standard measure that the American military has used to assess violence in Iraq.
The color-coded chart on attack trends showed a correlation between the decline of weekly attacks and the "surge" of offensive operations enabled by the deployment of five additional combat brigades and assorted other units.
Thus, attack trends change very fast, making it impossible to keep up with manual signature engineering and an automatic generation of signatures seems to be the only reasonable solution.
Below are four things experts want you to know about shark attack trends and why you really shouldn't worry.
But at present, the idea of an environmentally driven shark-attack trend is no more founded in fact than the hypothesis of one conservative commentator that the whole thing is the fault of Bill Clinton, or at least of tighter shark-fishing limits passed during his presidency.
"From a macro point of view, the attacks trend down," he said.
21 Interest Groups Attack A trend is changing the face of political advertising: an increasing number of attack campaigns by special-interest groups.
The US department of state's annual report on global terrorism allows us to establish that today cities are the key targets for terror attacks, a trend that began before the attacks on New York in September 2001.
The candidates love the CompStat program, which analyzes crime data to swiftly identify and attack crime trends.
Mr. McGrath, 44, attacks this trend as "soulless stainless," and says the world, and especially Americans, are ready for a change.
A week later Antony Beevor attacked the trend from the opposite direction in a talk to the Royal Society of Literature on "The Perils of Faction".
