A recent article in the Economic Times claimed that the growth in India's total factor productivity (TFP), the efficiency with which inputs of both labour and capital are used, had accelerated, whereas China's had slowed owing to wasteful investment.
The high and sometimes inappropriate use of antibiotics has accelerated the development of antibiotic resistance, creating a major challenge for the sustainable treatment of infections world-wide.
Unreasonable and intensive use of acaricides has accelerated the development of resistance by mites in China.
Dissecting various quantitative traits into individual Mendelian factors using molecular markers has accelerated the quantitative genetics walk out from the multiple gene investigation (Paterson et al. 1988; Lander and Botstein 1989).
Common marmosets have been used extensively in biomedical research and the recent advent of techniques to generate transgenic marmosets has accelerated the use of this model.
In response to these high mortality rates, public and private funding entities have made breast cancer research a high priority, which has accelerated the use of newly developed diagnostic technologies for early detection to be used in the breast cancer.
The Taliban movement, which has had a resurgence across southern Afghanistan in the past two years, has accelerated its use of suicide bombings and kidnappings this year.
Since Morsi's removal, the state has accelerated the use of lethal force to suppress demonstrations, killing some 1,000 people in a single day in August 2013.
The use of dollars and renminbi has accelerated since a disastrous revaluation of the North Korean currency, the won, in 2009 wiped out the savings of millions, according to experts on the country, defectors and Chinese border traders.
New apartment and office developments in Japan flaunt their seismic resistance as a marketing technique, a fact that has accelerated the use of the latest technologies, said Ronald O. Hamburger, a structural engineer in the civil engineering society and Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, a San Francisco engineering firm.
