Globalization, larger reliance on layered suppliers for specialized capabilities and innovation, changing customer needs, reliance on supply networks to maintain a competitive advantage, and developments in technology have all contributed to a very different supply chain environment.
The biggest single source of air pollution is coal-fired power stations and China, with its large population and heavy reliance on coal power, provides $2.3tn of the annual subsidies.
Endocasts (casts of the cranial cavity) revealed that the brain of Adapis was very small (less than 9 cubic cm [0.5 cubic inch]) for a primate its size, but its olfactory lobes remained large, suggesting a heavy reliance on the sense of smell.
High population densities, large economic outputs, and heavy reliance on water resources make flood retention and management pressing issues in China.
The South Korean economy's long term challenges include a rapidly aging population, inflexible labor market, dominance of large conglomerates (chaebols), and heavy reliance on exports, which comprise about half of GDP.
Wheat was chosen due to its heavy reliance on mineral fertilizer production, which accounts for a large part of the upstream CO2e contribution of conventional agricultural production.
Although the sample was relatively large, our reliance on volunteers potentially limits generalizability.
Accordingly, one informant noted how "we shouldn't be at all shy about raising revenues, and we probably got a little bit too excited about putting all the action on the expenditure side", while another identified "a very large over-reliance on spending cuts as opposed to revenue increases" in addressing fiscal shortfalls.
Freed from these mass constraints, it would be predicted that both flightlessness and nocturnality in birds should favour the evolution of large eyes and reliance upon visual cues for the guidance of activity.
Freed from these mass constraints, it would be predicted that in flightless birds nocturnality should favour the evolution of large eyes and reliance upon visual cues for the guidance of activity.
