The steady movement toward a war in Iraq had only seemed to escalate the risk of another terrorist attack.
In case of continuous network of crack is formed, concrete structure becomes permeable and embedded rebar may be exposed to ambient air, hence escalating the risk of material degradation.
Kara Dansky, the chief author of the ACLU report, told me this week that "the unnecessary use of paramilitary policing tactics tends to escalate the risk of violence to both civilians and officers".
Some economists are particularly worried about further weakness in the yen beyond the level of 139 to the dollar because that would escalate the risk of currency devaluations by other Asian nations trying to help keep their exports competitively priced.
Changes in disturbance regimes due to climate change are increasingly challenging the capacity of ecosystems to absorb recurrent shocks and reassemble afterwards, escalating the risk of widespread ecological collapse of current ecosystems and the emergence of novel assemblages1,2,3.
That episode, which marked a direct confrontation between Israel and Tehran, albeit in Syria, demonstrated that the change of dynamics in the Syrian conflict might escalate the risk of direct war between the two enemies.
A standoff between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority is ravaging Gaza's economy, pushing it to the verge of collapse, and escalating the risk of a violent confrontation with Israel.
"As we've seen in Ferguson, the militarization of policing tends to escalate the risk of violence to the communities,"said Kara Dansky, senior counsel with the ACLU's Center for Justice and the prime author of its June 2014 report on the militarization of US police.
Hence, the increasing density of wireless networks and the increasing volume of user equipment (UE) terminals in use escalate the risk of unwanted coexistence scenarios [3,4].
