The EU is now moving in this direction, if haltingly, with an increasing proportion of allowances sold by auction from 2013.
Cuban emigrants sent back about $1 billion in remittances last year, studies show, with an increasing proportion of that money financing budding capitalists in need of pizza ovens or other equipment to work privately.
According to the Pasadena-based Patent & Licence Exchange, trading in intangible assets in the United States has risen from $15 billion in 1990 to $100 billion in 1998, with an increasing proportion of the rewards going to small firms and individuals.And therein lies the terror for big companies: that innovation seems to work best outside them.
However, when coexisting with an increasing proportion of conifers, beech extracted water from progressively deeper soil layers.
We found that overall bee species richness and abundance increased with an increasing proportion of forest within 1000 m radius, but also with flower abundance.
We hypothesized that species with specialist characteristics (univoltine and oligophagous species) would increase with an increasing proportion of old abandoned fields (50 80% of these fields had been abandoned for approximately 30 years) and that species that utilized annual plants would increase with an increasing proportion of recently abandoned fields (abandoned for one to two years).
However, along with an increasing proportion of free metal ions, acidification leads to a decreasing number of available binding sites on the membrane following protonation [18].
Our results support the hypothesis, with an increasing proportion of spindles showing a disrupted structure as the levels of anisotonic exposure diverge from isotonic.
The resistance towards shear-induced disruption of yoghurt gels increased with an increasing proportion of casein protein in the protein mixture, whereas products with high whey protein level revealed lower resistance behaviour towards shear-forces.
Similarly, the species richness and abundance of social, large and above-ground nesting bees increased with an increasing proportion of forest area, mainly within 500 and 1000 m radii.
