(4) Futures research identifies the conditions that will lead to an irreversible civil or societal phase transition to a new stage of development.
Sepsis has been traditionally classified as an early stage excessive inflammatory state followed by a transition to a late stage anti-inflammatory/immunosuppressive state (e.g. endotoxin tolerance) (Cavaillon et al., 2005, Otto et al., 2011, Schefold et al., 2008).
She became a devoted exponent of reincarnation, arguing that death was a transition to a better stage, akin to breaking out of a cocoon.
So significant was this shift, claimed Maxmin and Zuboff, that we are witnessing a transition to a new stage of capitalism - from a service economy towards the support economy.
Crack propagation was noted to be highly faceted (due to planar slip band cracking) immediately after crack initiation followed by a transition to a flatter Stage II type crack path as crack length increases.
On the one hand, labour migration from less- to more-developed countries helps to correct the imbalance between the two and enables the former to transition to a higher stage of modernisation via remittances and the factor-price equalisation of wages through rebalancing the supply and demand for labour.
Boomers need telecommuting jobs to supplement their retirement income as they transition to a new stage in their lives.
The overall rise in degenerative diseases in recent decades indicates progress in the epidemiological transition to a later stage.
To further validate this hypothesis and test if similar versions apply to other cancers, we developed a computational technique identifying in an unbiased manner coordinatedly overexpressed genes associated with a phenotype (such as transition to a particular stage).
Transition to a reproductive growth stage is triggered by vernalization and/or long photoperiod.
