This was due largely to increasing popularity of textual communication services such as instant-and text messaging.

Disruption in the trade of tin for bronze from Western Europe may have contributed to the increasing popularity of brass in the east and by the 6th – 7th centuries AD over 90 % of copper alloy artefacts from Egypt were made of brass.

Bouldering is increasing in popularity ; bouldering areas are common in indoor climbing gyms and some climbing gyms are dedicated solely to bouldering.

Cheerleading's increasing popularity in recent decades has made it a prominent feature in high-school themed movies and television shows.

These types of analytics are increasing in popularity as companies demand greater visibility into the performance of call centers and other service and support channels, in order to correct problems before they affect satisfaction levels.

In earlier years the band had criticized neo-Nazi skinheads for trying to ruin the punk scene, but just as big a problem was the increasing popularity of thrash metal and stereotypical macho " post-1982 hardcore " which brought the group ( and their genre ) an audience that had little to do with the ideas / ideals they stood for.

With FEM / BEM increasing popularity comes the incentive to improve automatic meshing algorithms.

Mahuad concluded a well-received peace with Peru on October 26, 1998, but increasing economic, fiscal, and financial difficulties drove his popularity steadily lower.

In the 21st century the diesel engine has been increasing in popularity with automobile owners.

During the immediate post-war years the cinematic industry was also threatened by television, and the increasing popularity of the medium meant that some film theatres would bankrupt and close.

Perceiving the increasing popularity of imported Foster's Lager, it was decided to commence local brewing of the product by Courage.

He feared the people of Rome knew of the conspiracy against Germanicus, but Tiberius ' jealousy and fear of his nephew's popularity and increasing power was the true motive as understood by Tacitus.

With the increasing popularity of multi-core processors, programmers now exploit thread-level parallel Gaussian elimination algorithms to increase the speed of computing.

In addition the increasing popularity of Guy Fawkes Night ( 5 November ) from 1605 on saw Halloween become eclipsed in Britain with the notable exception of Scotland.

The popularity of golf is also gradually increasing among the masses and many clubs in Karachi like Dreamworld Resort, Hotel & Golf Club, Arabian Sea Country Club, DA Country & Golf Club are providing finest golf facilities to the citizens of Karachi.

The comfort of more onboard accommodation space and more level boats under sail offer substantially improved conditions for crew and passengers, which also contributes to the greatly increasing popularity of multihull sailboats during the past few decades.

In the case of Montalcino, gradual economic decline has recently been reversed by economic growth due to the increasing popularity of the town's famous wine Brunello di Montalcino, made from the sangiovese grosso grapes grown within the comune.

The increasing popularity of Windows prompted Microsoft to shift its development focus from cooperating on OS / 2 with IBM to building a franchise based on Windows.

Since the late 1980s especially, prose poetry has gained increasing popularity, with entire journals, such as The Prose Poem: An International Journal, Contemporary Haibun Online and Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose devoted to that genre.

The ex-communist social democrats gained increasing popularity when the transition to capitalism began to cause economic problems such as poverty and unemployment.

The advent of DVDs and their use of anamorphic presentation, coupled with the increasing popularity of widescreen televisions and computer monitors, have rendered pan and scan less important.

This changed to some degree with the increasing popularity of dot matrix printers.

The increasing fragmentation of popular music and the growing popularity of dance music and the DJ pheonmenon have reduced the interest in ' traditional ' rock / pop entertainment.

Sydney in particular has seen many staple live music venues close, falling victim to increasing rents in gentrified areas, noise restrictions imposed by local governments in response to local residents ' demands ; the popularity of the DJ and dance music ; and the supposedly greater profitability of poker machines.

Though ecologically logical as well as economical, pig toilets are waning in popularity as use of septic tanks and / or sewerage system is increasing in rural areas.

But once the hyperinflation is established, the pattern of increasing the money stock, by whichever agencies are allowed to do so, is universal.

Whereas a manufacturer may use technology, simplification, and other techniques to lower the cost of goods sold, the service provider often faces an unrelenting pattern of increasing costs.

The initial phase was the more active, including an increase in the percentage of urban dwellers in Stockholm – a pattern comparable to increasing urban populations in other European capital and port cities – as well as the foundation of a number of small new towns.

There was also increasing concern that this trend was badly managed, with it being noted that there was an " ill-defined urban pattern that appears to have few of the truly desirable urban qualities and yet manifests no compensating rural characteristics.

This pattern is often seen when the high clouds are invading the sky or increasing in amount.

However, individual groups started to focus on resources available to them locally ; thus with the passage of time there is a pattern of increasing regional generalization ( i. e.: Paleo-Arctic, Plano and Maritime Archaic traditions ).

The New York Times puzzles also set a common pattern for American crosswords by increasing in difficulty throughout the week: the Monday puzzles are the easiest and the puzzles get harder until Saturday.

The repaired shadow pattern is then absorbed, increasing the strength of The Pattern relative to The Logrus.

The highest number of occurrences appear in the earliest references ; this pattern may reflect increasing rationalization of Shangdi over time.

The visibility of this pattern could be greatly reduced by lowering the subcarrier frequency multiple to 455 ( thus increasing the beat frequency from approx 600 kHz to approx 920 kHz ) and by making the beat frequency also equal to an odd multiple of half the line scan frequency.

They worked well together ; it is possible to discern a pattern, when studying Hephaestion's career, of Alexander's constant trust in, and increasing reliance on Hephaestion.

The majority of population groups at this time were still highly mobile hunter-gatherers ; but now individual groups started to focus on resources available to them locally, thus with the passage of time there is a pattern of increasing regional generalization like, the Southwest, Arctic, Poverty, Dalton and Plano traditions.

Fetal alcohol syndrome is the pattern of physical abnormalities and the impairment of mental development which is seen with increasing frequency amongst children with alcoholic mothers.

CRA integrates several treatment components, including building the client ’ s motivation to quit drinking, helping the client initiate sobriety, analyzing the client ’ s drinking pattern, increasing positive reinforcement, learning new coping behaviors, and involving significant others in the recovery process.

The political leader collar-tab system was quite complicated and underwent four changes ( complexity increasing with each change ); the final ( fourth ) pattern as described above, was introduced around the end of 1938 — by this time, with many more job positions within each level ; this made the fourth pattern collar tab rank system by far the most complicated of all.

It would then gradually descend into the stratosphere, where the increasing air density would generate lift against the flat underside of the aircraft, eventually causing it to " bounce " and gain altitude again, where this pattern would be repeated.

The succession of Yukiko ’ s suitors, the Makiokas ’ yearly cherry-viewing excursions, and the increasing severity of illness in the novel form a pattern of “ decline-in-repetition ”.

Modes with increasing m and n show lobes appearing in the horizontal and vertical directions, with in general ( m + 1 )( n + 1 ) lobes present in the pattern.

In both types, a P wave is blocked from initiating a QRS complex ; but, in Type 1, there are increasing delays in each cycle before the omission, whereas, in Type 2, there is no such pattern.

Roland responded in part to these criticisms in its later grooveboxes by solving the MIDI problem, increasing the synthesis capabilities & user pattern storage and adding a sampler section.

One explanation for this increasing extravagancy in suture pattern is that it leads to a higher strength of the shell.

By contrast, in some fossil corals, adjacent septa lie in order of increasing age, a pattern that is termed serial and that produces a bilateral symmetry.

In late October 2010 the Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation, Geological Agency ( CVGHM ), ( Indonesian language — Pusat Vulkanologi & Mitigasi Bencana Geologi, Badan Geologi-PVMBG ), reported that a pattern of increasing seismicity from Merapi had begun to emerge in early September.