While much of Belgium's 70-kilometer, or 43-mile, stretch of North Sea coast has become a high-rise concentration of apartment blocks, hotels and shopping and dining venues, Knokke-Heist was designed from the beginning to be something different.
It was that a rising concentration of wealth couldn't be sustained politically.
Consider Barry Lynn's 2011 book, "Cornered," which carefully detailed the rising concentration and consolidation of nearly every American industry since the nineteen-eighties.
The Atlantic ran a recent infographic titled "The Return of the Monopoly," describing rising concentration in airlines, grocery sales, music, and other industries.
But Jonathan T. Overpeck, a study author and climate specialist at the University of Arizona, said the rising concentration of long-lived greenhouse gases guaranteed warming at a pace that could stress ecosystems and cause rapid melting of Greenland's great ice sheet.
Paul Ballew, G.M.'s general director for market analysis, said that the rising concentration of wealth and income in America over the last two decades had been the most important social trend for automakers.
Cell counts of L929 decreased with rising concentration of Cu2+ ions in the growth medium.
Contact time essential for achievement of equilibrium improved with rising concentration, but, however, remained practically uninfluenced by rising temperature.
And, higher concentration of MFESI provided more hydrogen, so antioxidant capacity increased with rising concentration of MFESI.
When the concentration of acrylamide exceeds 20 mg/ml, the activity decreases with rising concentration of acrylamide.
Guidelines recommend detecting return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) by a rising concentration of carbon dioxide in the exhalation air.
