And maybe also simply to frighten the universe and increase world sadness?
A third tier of potential listings includes consumer businesses in Nigeria, property companies in Kenya and enterprises related to the recent oil-and-gas discoveries in east Africa.A few biggish IPOs in Africa would increase the universe of stocks.
The new funding will be funneled towards furthering those expansion efforts — or to "increase the universe of what is Shazamable", as CEO Rich Riley put it in a statement.
Second, the growing fragmentation of production means more tasks have become tradable, increasing the universe of labour-intensive jobs in which Chinese workers compete with Americans.
How exactly does the global entropy increase of the universe imply local entropy increase among the subsystems (especially, among the subsystems which gave rise to us positing the Second Law anyway)?
One can argue, in a manner tracing back to H. Reichenbach, that the entropic increase of the universe as a whole will lead, again using the usual time symmetric probabilistic posits, to a high probability that a random "branch system" will show entropic increase parallel to that of the universe and parallel to that of other branch systems.
Experimental validation of these and similar findings will continue to increase the knowledge universe, in turn facilitating the development of more powerful, robust models.
Energy, the key concept, is conserved, but entropy, or useless heat energy, increases, so the universe is running down.
The NFL Network reaches 43 million cable and satellite subscribers, but the simulcast increased the viewing universe to 113 million TV homes.
But as the role of newspapers and television news diminishes, he wrote, "and the customization of our communications universe increases, society is in danger of fragmenting, shared communities in danger of dissolving".
