Traditional plant photosynthesis has terraformed the atmosphere by sequestering carbon from carbon dioxide, increasing the proportion of molecular oxygen, and by participating in the nitrogen cycle.

This causes the boiling point of the mixture to rise, which in turn results in a rise in the temperature in the vapor, which results in a changing ratio of A: B in the gas phase ( as distillation continues, there is an increasing proportion of B in the gas phase ).

The more labile compounds decompose quickly, leaving and increasing proportion of recalcitrant material.

Reducing the proportion of nitrogen by increasing the proportion of oxygen reduces the risk of decompression sickness for the same dive profile, or allows extended dive times without increasing the need for decompression stops for the same risk.

A production function has constant returns to scale if increasing all inputs by some proportion results in output increasing by that same proportion.

The German army, mindful of the steadily increasing proportion of spending going to the navy, demanded an increase of 136, 000 men to bring its size closer to that of France.

Today, a smaller proportion of educated people are familiar with the language, but an increasing number enjoy Latin literature through translations.

As an increasing proportion of people enter their 50s and 60s, they either choose to retire or are forced to retire by their companies.

A range of intermetallics often forms between the metal and the solder, with increasing proportion of the metal ; e. g. forming a structure of Cu-Cu < sub > 3 </ sub > Sn-Cu < sub > 6 </ sub > Sn < sub > 5 </ sub >- Sn.

He notes that although he speaks of the happiness of communities, “ the happiness of a people is made up of the happiness of single persons ; and the quantity of happiness can only be augmented by increasing the number of the percipients, or the pleasure of their perceptions ” and that if extreme cases, such a people held as slaves, are excluded the amount of happiness will usually be in proportion to the number of people.

The most fundamental change in the student population was the increasing proportion of women students.

In the new millennium, the genre remains popular but retains a much smaller proportion of enthusiasts than it once did, due to the increasing popularity of other genres and internet multiplayer gaming.

In the United States, many state court systems are experiencing an increasing proportion of pro se ( i. e., litigants represent themselves without a lawyer ) in divorce cases.

Since the surface area of a sphere ( which is 4πr < sup > 2 </ sup > ) is proportional to the square of the radius, as the emitted radiation gets farther from the source, it is spread out over an area that is increasing in proportion to the square of the distance from the source.

Supporters also argued that SDI could trigger a new arms race, forcing the USSR to spend an increasing proportion of GDP on defense — something which has been claimed to have been an indirect cause of the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union.

This was characterised by the real incomes of employees increasing more sharply than incomes from entrepreneurial work, with the proportion of employees ’ incomes in the overall national income rising from 65 % to 70 % between 1969 and 1973, while the proportion of income from entrepreneurial work and property fell over that same period from just under 35 % to 30 .%

So the term urbanisation can represent the level of urban relative to overall population, or it can represent the rate at which the urban proportion is increasing.

The object of each round is to create a chain of nine consecutive correct answers and earn an increasing amount for a single communal pot within a certain time limit.

This was traditionally interpreted as the reason for the building of hill forts, although the siting of some earthworks on the sides of hills undermined their defensive value, hence " hill forts " may represent increasing communal areas or even ' Elite Areas '.

Russian Mennonites began to emigrate from the Soviet Union in the face of increasing violence and persecution, state restrictions on freedom of religion, and biased allotments of communal farmland.

Trends merged when the hot tub, which originally had still water, with its increasing popularity became more commonly a communal whirlpool bath.

With increasing wealth, Chinese diets have become richer over time, consuming more meats, fats, and sugar ( with the major exception of late 1950s famine ).

He would reform taxes and attempt to break the feudal system, in order to undercut rivals, the most important of which was also named Bashir: Bashir Jumblatt, whose wealth and feudal backers equaled or exceeded Bashir II – and who had increasing support in the Druze community.

For the remaining 8 years, the sectarian and feudal rifts of the 1821 – 1825 conflict were heightened by the increasing economic isolation of the Druze, and the increasing wealth of the Maronites.

After 2002, with the end of the civil war and high economic growth rates fuelled by the wealth provided by the increasing oil and diamond production, major reconstruction started.

With respect to its colonies, British mercantilism meant that the government and the merchants became partners with the goal of increasing political power and private wealth, to the exclusion of other empires.

The spread of other movements from the 12th century, can be seen at least in part as a reaction to the increasing moral corruption of the clergy, which included illegal marriages and the possession of extreme wealth.

The middle classes constituted only ten per cent of the sixty million population ; they enjoyed wealth and increasing freedom, leaving the majority poor in the rural areas and slums.

High net-worth families face an ever increasing set of challenges managing their wealth across generations.

Producing such a work was a highly expensive prestige project, requiring several years work by highly skilled scribes and miniature painters, and it clearly testifies to the increasing wealth and pride of Zurich citizens in this period.

In the Qur ' anic view, zakat is a way to redistribute the wealth, thus increasing the role of charity in the economy with a particular interest in the poor and the dispossessed.

He criticized radical liberation theology, saying, " this conception of Christ, as a political figure, a revolutionary, as the subversive of Nazareth, does not tally with the Church's catechisms "; however, he did speak of " the ever increasing wealth of the rich at the expense of the ever increasing poverty of the poor ", and affirmed that the principle of private property " must lead to a more just and equitable distribution of goods ... and, if the common good demands it, there is no need to hesitate at expropriation, itself, done in the right way "; on balance, the Pope offered neither praise nor condemnation.

Trade was the main activity, based on highly productive agriculture and increasing exploitation of mineral wealth.

increasing their wealth by boosting the purchasing power of their assets,

In the next two centuries, Portugal gradually lost much of its wealth and status as the Dutch, English and French took an increasing share of the spice and slave trades ( the economic basis of its empire ), by surrounding or conquering the widely-scattered Portuguese trading posts and territories, leaving it with ever fewer resources to defend its overseas interests.

Turgot was one of the first to recognize that “ successive applications of the variable input will cause the product to grow, first at an increasing rate, later at a diminishing rate until it reaches a maximum .” This was a recognition that the productivity gains required to increase national wealth had an ultimate limit, and, therefore, wealth was not infinite.

Increasing financialization of commodity, industrial and commercial wealth and increasing specialization of national and regional economies and has left them vulnerable to the risk of capital flight, in the face of competitive pressure from other producing nations or localities.

In order to further diversify their investments and mitigate the risks associated with inflationary debasement of currencies, an increasing number of pension funds and sovereign wealth funds are allocating more capital to real assets such as a commodities and commodity-related infrastructure.

In order to further diversify their investments and mitigate the risks associated with inflationary debasement of currencies, an increasing number of pension funds and sovereign wealth funds are allocating more capital to non-listed assets such as a commodities and commodity-related infrastructure.

The dramatically increasing fame and wealth of the prosperous city turned it into an attractive plunder site for pirates and corsairs – French and English privateers licensed by their king.

Against all abuses, both civil and ecclesiastical ( excepting, of course, his own excesses ), Valentinian steadily set his face, even against the increasing wealth and worldliness of the clergy.

Ever since Taliesin became part of the family, Elphin's wealth kept increasing with each days ' time.