The International Energy Agency, IEA, says: "[The] intensifying need to obtain supplies from more challenging conventional and non-conventional resources will impose very considerable demands on the [oil] sector's human, financial and intellectual capabilities.
The three small caps below are in one way or another leveraged to rising energy prices and have the potential to climb severalfold in the next few years: Chicago Bridge & Iron, with about 80% of its business concentrated in the energy sector, is the engineering and construction firm most leveraged to the worlds intensifying need for new energy supplies.
With an intensifying need for microbial cell factories that produce a wide array of target compounds, whole genome high-throughput sequencing and annotation for SNP detection can aid in better reducing and defining the metabolic landscape.
Natural-resource companies, whose importance grows as competition for resources intensifies, need to be big hence the mining industry's consolidation.Two further developments are shifting the balance of advantage in favour of size.
The relationship between nurse and patient has historically evolved from a subject-object to a subject-subject relationship, thereby leading to an intensified need for self-reflection and introspection by nurses and other relationship workers [ 12].
The potential role for PNs to help reduce this treatment and outcomes gap through enhancing patient self-management as well as intensifying therapy, needs further study.
It is characterized by its highly aggressive behavior, increased metastasis, poor prognosis and lack of targeted therapies - thus intensifying the need for identifying novel therapeutic strategies for this subset of patients.
Asked to rank the factors most likely to intensify humanitarian needs, 28 of 41 aid agencies put the risk of more frequent and destructive climate-related floods, droughts and storms at the top.
We are mindful that this goal is not appropriate or practical for some patients, and clinical judgement based on the potential benefits and risks of a more intensified regimen needs to be applied for every patient.
The American Geriatric Society recommends that glycemic goals be established on the basis of patient preferences, life expectancy, and comorbidities and that the decision to intensify therapy needs to be modified by the patients' expectations (16).
