Not exact matches
Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national
decline in denominational loyalty, changes
in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion
in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the
dramatic rise
in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely
in vocational and economic terms, the rise
in government regulation and financing, the great increase
in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of
in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating
growth in human knowledge, and so on.
The result is a
dramatic rise
in sea - surface temperature and a drastic
decline in plankton
growth, which is devastating to the marine food chain, including commercial fisheries
in the region.
I start (and started) from the premise that the
dramatic decline in crude oil prices that took place from August, 2014 ($ 96 / barrel), to March, 2015 ($ 44 / barrel), was due — on the one hand — to decreased demand, a function of slow economic
growth in Asia, Europe, and elsewhere, endogenous, price - driven technological change leading to greater fuel efficiency, and policy - driven technological change that also has been leading to greater fuel efficiency, such as more stringent Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards
in the United States; and — on the other hand — was due to increased supply, partly a function of the
growth of unconventional (tight) U.S. oil production (a product of the combination of two technologies — horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing).
From 2009 to 2012, the
growth in new installations slowed and
in 2013, the industry suffered a
dramatic and unprecedented 9.2 GW -LRB--21 %)
decline in new installations.
«The solar industry is poised for a rapid
decline in costs that will make it a mainstream power option
in the next few years, according to a new assessment by the Worldwatch Institute
in Washington, D.C., and the Prometheus Institute
in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Global production of solar photovoltaic (PV) cells, which turn sunlight directly into electricity, has risen sixfold since 2000 and grew 41 percent
in 2006 alone... This
growth, while
dramatic, has been constrained by a shortage of manufacturing capacity for purified polysilicon, the same material that goes into semiconductor chips.
The vaccinated mice showed a
dramatic decline in tumor
growth, compared with non-vaccinated mice.