Since the MMB seeds, just like the seeds of other firms, are not patent-protected, the rising graph of farmer-suicides in India cannot be ascribed solely to MMB's patent monopoly.
Here, the decline in basic/basic research was "striking": It fell from 52% to 27% of new and competing grants, while basic/disease-focused has been rising (see graph).
No, here you get a digital speedometer, shiny and yellow and LED, and a rising bar graph (think St. Louis Arch, only orange and digital) for the tachometer.
It notes that since 1990 the military has "gained no new vaccines and only a few drugs" to counter bioweapons, despite a rising budget (see graph).
Political leaders, if they can't produce a rising arrow on the graphs, worry that voters will take their revenge at the polls.
If data made a difference, graphs of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide and earth surface temperatures would melt a climate-change-denier's denial like greenhouse gases are melting Greenland.
Elo ratings have also become more accurate predictors of the final, according to the rising correlation in the graph above.
I had been taught to think of the wilder reaches of English nonconformity as marginal and eccentric, if not certifiably insane, and wrote off the Pentecostals as an irrelevant blip on the smooth graph of rising skepticism and declining superstition.
All the sub-sectors of construction - house-building, commercial property construction, and civil engineering - all saw rising activity, as this graph shows: UK construction PMI to January 2014, by sector Photograph: /Markit Last week's GDP data had shown that the UK construction sector shrank slightly in the final three months of 2013.
As the scholar William Weber has established, this fetishizing of the past can be tracked with mathematical precision, as a rising line on a graph: in Leipzig, the percentage of works by deceased composers went from eleven per cent in 1782 to seventy-six per cent in 1870.
