Despite its climate-centric name and mission, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been focusing increasing attention on direct ocean impacts of carbon dioxide, most notably in an excellent 2011 report, "IPCC Workshop on Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Marine Biology and Ecosystems".
Thermodynamic engines are focusing increasing attention in the context of solar-based electric power generation.
Since more extensive genomic profiling of tumors is likely to become commonplace in the future epidemiologists will be focusing increasing attention on the task of discovering etiologically distinct sub-types, rather than on studies restricted to sub-types defined by specific candidate markers.
The controversy surrounding the "Nightline" broadcast comes as the news media focuses increased attention on the cost of the war.
Most biblical scholars since Gunkel have accepted his classifications, with perhaps some modifications, but have focussed increased attention on the setting, the Sitz im Leben, in which the psalms were sung.
However, recent models focused increased attention on early identification, prevention, and intervention services, including attention to the emotional and social development of infants and young children.
In recent years the green building movement has focused increased attention on chemical hazards in building products and the need to select safer alternatives.
In this era of capitalist development, economic concentration, new production techniques, and the development of new technologies, accelerated capacity for mass production and capitalist corporations focused increased attention on managing consumption and creating needs for new prestigious goods, thus producing the regime of what Baudrillard has called sign-value.
The growth of MOOCs (massive open online courses) has focused increased attention on instruction, he adds, as well as leading some faculty members to ask, only half in jest, "Will some MIT professor put me out of business?" (The edX project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University has been aggressively fielding MOOCs).
Recent initiatives by international health and humanitarian aid organizations have focused increased attention on making HIV testing services more widely available to vulnerable populations.
