There are two reasons for this: first, population growth will continue at least into the latter half of the century, although the rate of growth is already slowing, and second, the dependency ratio is changing rapidly due to decreasing birth rates and increasing life expectancy.4 The structure of demand is being altered fast by the needs of our ageing societies.
The mix of housing is altering fast too.
More than one in three people in the world are overweight today and one in 10 obese – many of them in the developing countries where eating habits and activity levels are altering fast, said Dr Etienne Krug, director of WHO's department for the management of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and heart disease.
This is partly because, in most countries, it takes ages to get parliamentary approval for changes in taxes, so tax rates cannot be altered as fast as interest rates.
In the postgenomic era of network cancer biology, 4 and with the advent of the new high-throughput technologies language, methodologies and research directions should be altered for a faster clinical success.
We have previously shown that the slow-folding R16 and R17 spectrin domains can be altered to resemble the fast folding R15, in terms of speed of folding (and unfolding), landscape roughness and folding mechanism, simply by substituting five residues in the core.
The hold time parameter n h is to be altered depending on how fast the additional noise damping g2(n) should start to affect the signal.
The concentration of glucose in the blood can be altered by food ingestion, prolonged fasting, or exercise (8).
The suggestion that the ketonaemic response to fasting may be altered in the tumour-bearing state was investigated by studying the metabolism of fasted C57/BL6j mice bearing transplanted B16 melanomas.
Their gain or postsynaptic responsiveness can be altered by several factors including fast synchronous oscillatory activity and/or neuromodulators such as acetylcholine and dopamine, both of which are implicated in attentional mechanisms (Feldman and Friston, 2010).
