Already the death toll may exceed 450, with the scale of bloodshed rising fast.
Aristotle, and nearly all Western scholars after him until the 18th century, believed that creatures were arranged in a graded scale of perfection rising from plants on up to humans: the scala naturae or Great Chain of Being.
In one striking episode a piercing brass choir sets off a bevy of creeping chords and curious patterns of rising scales.
In the challenging Mozart aria "Martern aller Arten" (which Callas performs in an Italian translation), she is determined to sing the final set of rising scales -- two long, note-filled phrases -- on one breath.
The number and scale of attacks rose sharply last year, after the government imposed emergency rule in the three worst hit states.
The number and scale of attacks rose sharply in 2014 after the government imposed emergency rule on the three worst-hit states in 2013, and the administration of President Jonathan has met growing criticism for failing to quash it.
S.& P. said it was raising its assessment of the level of economic risk facing the entire French banking system to 3 from 2, on a scale of 10. "Our view of rising economic risks for France's banking sector also reflects the potentially limited, but still noteworthy, impact from an ongoing correction in the housing market," S.& P. said.
Nevertheless, with the ever-increasing enlargement of refining scale, the rising demand for high-quality products and the restricted supply of light and sweet crudes, CO2 emissions of Chinese refineries have increased significantly.
If the team can reconstruct a record of when the ice sheet melted in the past, that will give scientists a better understanding of how it is likely to behave as temperatures rise in future - and what scale of temperature rise would be needed to melt it again.
Among them, we use the kurtosis, as it satisfies three of the most important properties that are intuitively expected from a measure of sparsity: scale invariance, rising tide and Robin Hood [19].
