For such a small country, the Netherlands has an unusual quantity of world-class dance troupes, including the Dutch National Ballet, based in Amsterdam, and the more experimental Netherlands Dance Theatre (NDT) in The Hague.
A huge quantity of the world's residents lives in isolated rural areas.
According to him, Jewish law (Halacha) accepts genetic engineering to save and prolong human life as well as increase the quality or quantity of the world's food supply.
These databases provide a wide variety of variables for analysis, and the large quantity of real-world data accords a degree of external validity to results.
It comes from the U.S., where great quantities of the world brainpower and entrepreneurial spirit pile up every year.
The region juts out into the Strait of Hormuz, the key choke point at the eastern end of the Persian Gulf, through which chug scores of oil tankers taking vast quantities of the world's supply of black gold to Europe, the US and Asia.
Cesar A. Hidalgo and Ricardo Hausmann have done some amazing work in the past few years conceptualising the enormous quantity of data on world trade to help us understand the processes of export diversification and industrialisation.
A global savings glut is partly to blame: export powerhouses like the OPEC countries and China buy vast quantities of rich-world debt, depressing borrowing costs in the process.
"With a slowdown in its own domestic industrial demand but also reduced demand more generally in the world economy, many suspect that China is dumping vast quantities into the rest of world," says Vicky Pryce, chief economic adviser at CEBR, an economic consultancy.
The most recent funding round in this category, for $3 million, went to Cytora, a UK-based provider of tools to quantity risk based on analysis of world events.
The sheer quantity of text in the world threatens to erode the value of particular texts, to undermine the authority and integrity of writing as an enterprise.
