Those firms have prospered over the past year, in no small part thanks to China's voracious demand for commodities and energy to feed and fuel its rapid growth and growing number of middle-class consumers.
Advances in remote sensing are rapid, with a growing number of sensors and increasing access to image archives (e.g. the USGS Landsat archive), as well as new algorithms able to handle complex data structures (e.g. machine learning, geostatistical, or data mining tools).
Britain's hedgehog population has dropped below a million for the first time, thanks to rapid development and the growing number of badgers, according to a new study.
China's massive and rapid urbanisation, along with a growing number of Chinese travelling overseas, are the factors she believes are behind the development of coffee drinking.
A decrease in available arable land per capita due to a rapid population growth [1], a growing number of animals in agriculture that need to be fed and actions for climate change mitigation and adaptation [2, 3] are aggravating the competition for land resources.
Third, post-hoc analysis of expression datasets is relatively rapid, and there are a large and growing number of datasets publicly available.
The rhetoric and legislation surrounding white slavery developed at a time of rapid urbanization, mass waves of immigration, and a growing number of women in the workforce as a tool to reinforce stalwart ideas about race, sex, and sexuality.
OO Mosquitoes' Rapid Spread Poses Threat Beyond Zika - to a growing number of continent-jumping diseases carried by mosquitoes threatening swathes of humanity, warn experts.
A growing number of studies have confirmed that rapid early weight gain is a significant risk factor for obesity in later life [ 24, 25].
A growing number of applications is being found for rapid prototyping technology.
