But Mr. Murtha spoke of mounting casualties and lagging recruiting, the rising frequency of insurgent attacks, stagnant oil production and lack of clean water.
There is a "clear link" between climate change and bushfires, with the current New South Wales fires influenced by a rising frequency of hot, dry days, according to the climate body that had its funding withdrawn by the Coalition government.
Even if scientists could agree on the contribution of global warming to the rising frequency of such disasters, it would still be hard to classify the causes of any given catastrophe.
In order to talk about trends, or at least trending topics, it is essential to capture longitudinal data, making it possible to observe for example the rising frequency of specific hashtags or hashtag combinations over time.
Certain protocol has been implemented to combat the rising frequency of never events in medical facilities including marking surgery sites with ink, enforcing checklists and electronic bar codes, and counting surgical items pre and post operation.
For gun-control advocates, the proliferation of military-style weapons -- and high-capacity ammunition clips that greatly increase their lethality -- is directly responsible for the rising frequency of high-casualty mass shootings.
This observation is especially interesting given the expected rising frequency of El Niño following the continuous increase of greenhouse-gas concentrations in the atmosphere (24).
The impact of weather on mortality has become public health significance, especially in light of climate change and rising frequency of adverse weather events (e.g., heat waves and floods).
C. glabrata is a common commensal, but can turn into an opportunistic pathogen with a rising frequency of isolates among immunocompromised patients and elder people (Li et al., 2007; Pfaller and Diekema, 2007; Presterl et al., 2007).
The historic era intensification of rice agriculture is reflected in this trend of rising frequencies of Poaceae.
