"One of the major, if not the major impediments to large scale increases of human insect consumption, is the strong rejection of insects as food by most of the world's population," writes Paul Rozin in a forthcoming paper, Determinants of Willingness to Eat Insects in the USA and India, to be published in the nascent Journal of Insects as Food and Feed.
According to the recast of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive and its target for the large-scale increase of nearly-zero energy buildings, nowadays a challenging task is the definition of standard high performing building types depending on location and specific climate conditions.
At the same time, the rapid development of high-throughput RNA sequencing methods now provides a way to observe splicing events directly and on a very large scale, increasing the amount of data available on this phenomenon by many orders of magnitude [1].
Over the last decade, there has been a large-scale increase in medicalisation of the oldest old, in terms of upward trends in recorded diagnoses, chronic prescribing and hospital admission.
Consequently, we do see a large-scale increase in the number of species that we can now see as fossils, not because they are suddenly arising de novo but because many are being preserved as fossils for the first time.
Postponed for months because of fears in some countries of a large-scale increase in "health tourism," the plan could extend options to European residents who live in countries where waiting lists are long.
CHARLESTON, S.C., May 5 — Rudolph W. Giuliani called on Saturday for a large-scale increase in the overall troop strength of the Army and the creation of a special force to specifically handle post-combat operations.
While the Bush administration is likely to devote hundreds of millions of dollars to support economic growth under a new government in Afghanistan, it shows no sign of backing a large-scale increase in foreign aid generally.
While the HIV epidemic has taken a huge toll on families and households, there is no empirical evidence of large-scale increases in the kind of extreme social phenomena, such as child-headed households, that attracts so much commentary and donor responses.
Conservationists and regeneration experts now claim that the National Forest is absolute proof that tree planting on a large scale can increase wealth, change the identity of a place and pay for itself hundreds of times over.
As the fraction of electricity generated from intermittent renewable sources (such as solar and wind) grows, developing reliable energy storage technologies to store electrical energy in large scale is of increasing importance.
