"The deaths have been increasing because of traditional burial rites in that region," said Tolbert Nyenswah, Liberia's deputy chief medical officer.
Mr. Hartwig said costs for insuring homes had been increasing because of rising expenses for building materials and, for the last two years, a number of relatively small but costly storms.
Some 43 percent of N.B.A. fans are what the league terms multicultural, which includes African-Americans, Hispanics and Asians, whose percentage has been increasing because of interest in the career of Yao Ming, the Chinese center for the Houston Rockets.
The Asian Development Bank, for one, thinks that, whereas the average number of tropical cyclones a year has not risen significantly when measured over several decades, the severity of individual events has been increasing because of rising sea and air temperatures.
In particular, recently, the RP ratio has rather been increasing because of an increase in heavy oil reserve in Venezuela and Canada.
In recent years, the diagnosis rate of coronary artery aneurysm has been increasing because of advancements in imaging technology, with an incidence of 1 5% in patients who undergo coronary artery angiography [1, 3, 4].
