Humanity has the assets to get the job done, but the odds of avoiding collapse seem small because the risks are clearly not obvious to most people and the classic signs of impending collapse, especially diminishing returns to complexity, are everywhere.
Bank holding company dividends increased every quarter from 2005 through 2007 – a period in which weak signals of impending collapse were piling up.
A bearish minority, however, reads the warning signs — labor unrest, a housing bubble, an unprecedented investment binge — as a sign of impending collapse.
While innovative processes take continuously place in tunneling, which remains a rapidly evolving technology, the reliable prediction of impending collapse of roofs appears still one of the most difficult tasks in civil engineering.
While there were no obvious signs of impending collapse or political intrigue swirling around the fate of North Korea's ailing leader, the visit offered hints of why the North might be particularly eager now to resume international aid and trade.
Immediately prior to collapse of the spindle (Fig. 1B, 0 min, arrows show direction of impending collapse), mitochondria were seen flanking the spindle midzone region.
As a multispatial process, extension into the parapharyngeal fat/space increases the likelihood of pharyngeal involvement with significant increased risk of impending airway collapse and mediastinitis (Fig. 9).
Seventy percent said they felt themselves to be at risk of "impending nervous breakdown".
The femoral lesion, at risk of impending fracture, was immobilised thereafter.
There is, e.g., evidence that maternal glucocorticoids should be given to all women at risk of impending preterm birth [18], even in the presence of clinical chorioamnionitis.
Radiographs showed significant disease progression with risk of impending implant fracture (Fig. 1a).
