To this may be added a perception that both China and India will encounter big environmental and political problems in the mid-term future.
"It's clear that financial institutions are not going to drive new construction, in the immediate, if not the mid-term future," said Steven Spinola, president of the Real Estate Board of New York, the industry's lobbying organization.
Associated methods take a technology-centric view that focusses on predicting the most likely technological developments in the mid-term future.
It's tough to come to terms with the mid-term future (2020 is the medium term) especially as the Dow Jones industrial average hit 11,000 this week.
The High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) has been identified as the highest priority program in High Energy Physics in the mid-term future.
While biofuels remain a viable alternative to fossil fuels, a full replacement of our 90%% hydrocarbon-based transport industry is unlikely in the near to mid-term future [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8].
The volumetric flow of cooling air was in the range of 5 25 m3/h, that represents current aeronautics on-board conditions and projected values for the mid-term future.
Understanding the complexity of landscapes is an essential requirement to exhibit strategies for landscape development in the mid-term future to predict long-term effects and maintain future demands.
Finally, this paper provides an outlook on near- and mid-term future activities involving cryogenics in space and on the related technology development, with particular emphasis on the work carried out by the European Space Agency.
A comparison of habitat suitability under current and future climate conditions suggests that all CWRs except O. latifolia might be able to expand their distribution ranges in the mid-term future (Fig. 4), implying that their genetic resources would not be seriously threatened by the effects of climate changes on their range sizes.
