More children are attending schools - both modern and monastic education - and adults are increasingly participating in alternative livelihood options.
With predictions that there will be a half a billion phones in Africa by 2020 and people being better connected to the internet, audiences are increasingly consuming news in alternative forms.
Cloud computation is providing the community with an increasingly popular alternative to in-house computational resources.
For example, between 2005 and 2010, 13,000 hectares of land in Indonesia was converted from tea to grow rubber, palm oil and fruit, while cashew nuts are becoming an increasingly attractive alternative in Sri Lanka.
Cell-based high-content screening (HCS) assays have become an increasingly attractive alternative to traditional in vitro and in vivo testing in pharmaceutical drug development and toxicological safety assessment.
"Robot-Centric" (RC) sampling is an increasingly popular alternative used in algorithms such as DAgger, where a human supervisor observes the robot executing a learned policy and provides corrective control labels for each state visited.
Some people may still shiver at the prospect of curing disease by sticking needles into the body, yet acupuncture is nonetheless an increasingly popular alternative medicine in the west.
That's an increasingly sensible alternative, especially in companies that no longer match their employees' contributions.
Mr. Zandi also cited the Riverside area in Southern California as an increasingly attractive alternative to companies looking to put operations in less expensive places than Los Angeles, which is more than an hour's drive to the west, or the San Francisco Bay area.
Hypoallergenic peptides, in particular, are an increasingly popular alternative to whole proteins and have proven successful in animal models and human trials [ 9,10,11 ].
