The city of Bukavu has experienced an exponential urban growth since colonial times.

Our planet will not physically support this exponential economic growth if we let greed take the upper hand.

What is going on? Many analysts had expected emerging markets to generate exponential growth over the next decade.

Moreover, a large number of Africa s poorest countries have benefited from exponential growth in (primarily United States based) philanthropy.

The Gaussian minus exponential distribution is a convolution of a normal distribution with (minus) an exponential distribution.

The amount of genetic data basically this shows that smooth exponential growth doubled every year, enabling the genome project to be completed.

The country failed to anticipate the rise of China and India, whose exponential demand growth would have obvious implications for global energy prices.

This exponential growth is believed to be linked to increased Government control over diamond mining and its compliance with the Kimberly Certification Scheme.

This is at an early stage, but you can show with the exponential growth of the amount of information about the brain and the exponential improvement in the resolution of brain scanning, we will succeed in reverse engineering the human brain by the 2020s.

It is now adopted widely and becoming an alternative to decision tree which typically suffers from exponential growth in number of branches with each variable modeled.

This would allow an exponential rate of production.

There has been an exponential growth in secondary, higher and university education. Gender parity in access to and duration of education has also been achieved at all levels.

They think they're going to continue to develop a problem or address a problem using today's tools, at today's pace of progress, and fail to take into consideration this exponential growth.

After a certain time of exponential phase, the rate of growth slows down, due to the continuously falling concentrations of nutrients and or a continuously increasing (accumulating) concentrations of toxic substances.

Many analysts had expected emerging markets to generate exponential growth over the next decade. But now there is talk of how the global crisis is slowing down these economies and killing off discretionary spending.

There will come a time, of course, when the exponential growth of discovery and knowledge, which actually began in the 1600s, has to peak and level off, but that's not going to matter to you.

In mathematics, the exponential integral Ei is a special function on the complex plane.

The experts group observed that exponential growth in mercenarism and other private security activity might be due as much to a lack of legislation as to a lack of political will to properly combat the phenomenon.

On the other hand, Andrew Kennedy has shown that if one calculates the journey time to a given destination as the rate of travel speed derived from growth (even exponential growth) increases, there is a clear minimum in the total time to that destination from now (see wait calculation).

Such changes include major political realignments, an unprecedented evolution in socio economic relations, and exponential advancement in technological capacities.

The exponential growth in both numbers and influence over the past two decades or so prompted me to establish the Panel of Eminent Persons on United Nations Civil Society Relations to assess and draw lessons from United Nations interaction with civil society and recommend ways to improve it.

But I wonder whether, even within the next few decades, another factor will influence our work lives even more the exponential rise of applications of artificial intelligence.

And the tsunami of problems that we feel we're facing in terms of sustainability questions are actually a reflection of the exponential increase in urbanization across the planet.

I was a little nervous because maybe the data wouldn't be right, but I've done this now for 30 years, and it has stayed on this exponential progression.

For some years now we have been witnessing an exponential increase in the number of cases entrusted to the Court and, correspondingly, an unprecedented increase in its activities.

And we look at these exponential technologies from medicine, biotech, artificial intelligence, robotics, nanotechnology, space, and address how can we cross train and leverage these to impact major unmet goals.

And we're integrating this now with a whole era of cellular engineering, and integrating exponential technologies for essentially 3D organ printing replacing the ink with cells and essentially building and reconstructing a 3D organ.

They have been expanding, urbanization has been expanding, at an exponential rate in the last 200 years so that by the second part of this century, the planet will be completely dominated by cities.

The exponential increase in international trade had led to a corresponding increase in commercial disputes and, in that connection, the importance of arbitration as a means of resolving international commercial disputes could not be overemphasized.

And indeed, one of the wonderful things about the theory is that if you have super linear scaling from wealth creation and innovation, then indeed you get, from the same theory, a beautiful rising exponential curve lovely.

Slow growth is manageable. Negative growth is not.

In other words, economic growth should be viewed as growth in wealth, not growth in GNP.

This is a good story, full of human drama and power politics. But I wonder whether, even within the next few decades, another factor will influence our work lives even more the exponential rise of applications of artificial intelligence.

Rapid output growth without equally rapid capital stock or employment growth must have reflected rapid productivity growth.

Now, we know some of the technological facts that are driving this change in our lifestyle the uptake and diffusion of mobile devices, the exponential improvement in data storage and data processing, and the remarkable improvement in human biometric sensors.

This transformation has become a virtuous circle where initial growth has spiraled into greater growth, leading to more growth.

There is evidence that countries with high growth in services also tend to have high overall economic growth conversely, countries with high overall economic growth have high services growth.

Platelet derived growth factor (PDGF) is one of the numerous growth factors, or proteins that regulate cell growth and division.

Wage growth, rather than borrowing and financial booms, fuelled demand growth.

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But what has been overlooked is that the effect of services growth on aggregate economic growth appears to be as strong, if not stronger, than the effect of manufacturing growth on overall growth.

In good times, the trade generated by a country s growth bolsters global growth.

Growth industries are those, which benefit from new sources of dynamic industrial growth.

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