These shifts could increase colonization ability and survival of pathogenic microbes, thereby posing significant ecological, human and animal health risks.
These shifts could increase the development impact of zakat in African and Asian countries that have large Muslim populations and high levels of poverty and hunger.
However, some respondents feared surgical task shifting could increase mortality in instances where incompetent trainees are left unsupervised.
A shift among Democrats could increase pressure in Congress to rein in the growth of government spending, slash the budget deficit and reduce the national debt — even during a period of weakness that traditional Keynesian theory would say requires more deficit spending.
Such a shift in sentiment could increase buying pressure on the equity, thus sending the stock sharply higher.
"Some shifts in vegetation could increase fuel for wildfires, for example, so prescribed burning may be necessary to reduce the risk of catastrophic fires". "Approximately one billion people now live in areas that are highly to very highly vulnerable to future vegetation shifts," said Gonzalez.
In addition, it is worth noting that empirical data from experiments (using biological and digital organisms) supports the position that environmental shifts and fluctuation could increase evolvability (Sniegowski et al. 1997; Earl and Deem 2004; Meyers et al. 2005; Reisinger and Miikkulainen 2006; Kashtan et al. 2007; Draghi and Wagner 2008).
But the shift could also increase inequality by reducing taxes predominantly for the wealthy, who spend a smaller share of their income than middle- and lower-income people.
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has quietly empowered the United States Cyber Command to take a far more aggressive approach to defending the nation against cyberattacks, a shift in strategy that could increase the risk of conflict with the foreign states that sponsor malicious hacking groups.
As the WSJ reported recently, banks' shift to doling out bigger portions of pay in stock could hurt Main Street investors: "Some analysts estimate the shift to more stock could increase the number of shares outstanding at such companies by as much as 4%.
