From the 1920s to the 1960s, strong economic growth, abundant natural resources and development of infrastruture, led to the arrival of even more Portuguese settlers.

By 2012, despite natural gas prices at a ten-year low and a higher Canadian dollar, oil prices had recovered enough to restart economic growth.

The city is located in rich farm country, which produces corn, soybeans, and tomatoes ; and is in the Indiana natural gas region, to which fact it owed its growth as a manufacturing center.

Since 1991, Croatia's death rate has continuously exceeded its birth rate ; the natural growth rate of the population is currently negative.

However, the rapid growth of the world's population and its increased concentration often in hazardous environments has escalated both the frequency and severity of natural disasters.

With the tropical climate and unstable land forms, coupled with deforestation, unplanned growth proliferation, non-engineered constructions which make the disaster-prone areas more vulnerable, tardy communication, poor or no budgetary allocation for disaster prevention, developing countries suffer more or less chronically by natural disasters.

While there are other European countries like Estonia with a birthrate that is below replacement levels, Estonia lacks immigration to compensate for the negative natural growth.

found in all regions capable of sustaining tree growth, at altitudes up to the tree line, except where natural fire frequency or other disturbance is too high, or where the environment has been altered by human activity.

Since 2001, economic growth declined caused by adverse shocks such as a slowdown in the global economy and natural disasters.

While economic growth has declined since 2001 due to adverse shocks, including slowdown in the global economy and natural disasters, fiscal policy became more expansionary when privatization receipts declined.

At all times, a majority of slaves in the colony were African-born, as the brutal conditions of slavery prevented the population from experiencing growth through natural increase.

In natural conditions, soil acts as a mineral nutrient reservoir but the soil itself is not essential to plant growth.

To increase plant growth, lighting systems such as metal halide lamps for growing stage only or high-pressure sodium for growing / flowering / blooming stage are used to lengthen the day or to supplement natural sunshine if it is scarce.

Pollock described this use of household paints, instead of artist ’ s paints, as " a natural growth out of a need.

Kyrgyzstan has the world's largest natural growth walnut forest, Arslanbob, located in Jalal-Abad Province with an enormous variety of different genetic characteristics.

Today there is no reason to expect general, non-asset deflation under a fiat currency system with low productivity growth, especially with depleting natural resources like oil causing real prices to rise.

Some of the objects or phenomena designated as kami are qualities of growth, fertility, and production ; natural phenomena like wind and thunder ; natural objects like the sun, mountains, rivers, trees, and rocks ; some animals ; and ancestral spirits.

Changes in the labour force are due to flow variables such as natural population growth, net immigration, new entrants, and retirements from the labour force.

The outer " back " of sapwood, approximately flat, follows the natural growth rings ; modern bowyers often thin the sapwood, while in the Mary Rose bows the back of the bow was the natural surface of the wood, only the bark being removed.

The bilateral agenda is dominated by efforts to increase broad-based growth, improve health and educational facilities, promote the sustainable use of natural resources, reduce the population growth rate, counter the spread of highly infectious diseases, encourage regional stability, build peacekeeping capabilities, institutionalize respect for human rights, and strengthen democratic institutions in offering good governance.

This growth was accompanied by foreign investment and European immigration, the development of an efficient railroad network and the exploitation of the country's natural resources.

Economic growth picked up in 1997 – 99 after stalling in 1996 due to a series of natural disasters and increases in world prices of copper and cashmere.

In the earlier sessions there was plentiful discussion on the natural law, which Dr. William V. O'Brien of Georgetown University, advanced as the basis for widely acceptable ethical judgments on foreign policy.

The Acquine engine, developed at Penn State University, rates natural photographs uploaded by users.

Though Rudolf Steiner studied natural science at the Vienna Technical University at the undergraduate level, his doctorate was in epistemology and very little of his work is directly concerned with the empirical sciences.

Chalmers University of Technology (, often shortened to Chalmers ), is a Swedish university located in Gothenburg that focuses on research and education in technology, natural science and architecture.

The species name troglodytes, Greek for " cave-dweller ", was coined by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in his book De generis humani varietate nativa liber (" on the natural varieties of the human genus ") published in 1776, This book was based on his dissertation presented one year before ( it had a date 16 Sep 1775 printed on its title page ) to the University of Göttingen for internal use only, thus the dissertation did not meet the conditions for published work in the sense of zoological nomenclature.

The medieval universities of Western Christendom were well-integrated across all of Western Europe, encouraged freedom of enquiry and produced a great variety of fine scholars and natural philosophers, including Thomas Aquinas of the University of Naples, Robert Grosseteste of the University of Oxford, an early expositor of a systematic method of scientific experimentation ; and Saint Albert the Great, a pioneer of biological field research The University of Bologne is considered the oldest continually operating university.

Ken Thompson was very familiar with an earlier editor known as qed from University of California at Berkeley, Ken Thompson's alma mater ; he reimplemented qed on the CTSS and Multics systems, so it is natural that he carried many features of qed forward into ed.

Rutimeyer was a professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at the University of Basel, who rejected natural selection as simply mechanistic and proposed an anti-materialist view of nature.

In 1930, Hoxha went to study at the University of Montpellier in France on a state scholarship given to him by the Queen Mother for the faculty of natural sciences.

* The syntax of natural language: An online introduction using the Trees program -- Beatrice Santorini & Anthony Kroch, University of Pennsylvania, 2007

16th century natural law writer, Francisco de Vitoria, a professor of theology at the University of Salamanca, examined the questions of the just war, the Spanish authority in the Americas, and the rights of the Native American peoples.

He grew up in Switzerland and became a professor of natural history at University of Neuchâtel.

In 1832 he was appointed professor of natural history in the University of Neuchâtel.

George Forster, who had been on Cook ’ s second voyage to the Pacific and had been with him when he landed on Norfolk Island, was at the time professor of natural history at the University of Vilna ( or Vilnius ) in Polish Lithuania: Forster discussed the proposed Botany Bay colony in an article written in November 1786, “ Neuholland, und die brittische Colonie in Botany Bay ”.

This shortage of natural rubber prompted the chemists at American companies such as Du Pont and Standard Oil, and researchers at Harvard University, to strive to develop factory-made alternatives-artificial rubber for all uses, including vehicle tires, tank tracks, gaskets, hoses, medical supplies and rain clothing.

In 1956, Paul Kuroda of the University of Arkansas postulated that a natural fission reactor may have once existed.

The concept of a natural nuclear reactor was theorized as early as 1956 by Paul Kuroda at the University of Arkansas.

The 2011 QS World University Rankings placed Stanford in arts & humanities, in engineering & technology, in social sciences, in natural sciences, in life sciences, and overall.

At Cambridge University starting in 1827, Darwin learnt science as natural theology from botanist John Stevens Henslow, and read Paley, John Herschel and Alexander von Humboldt.

The University of Tulsa is noted for having one of the world's premier programs in petroleum engineering, and has distinguished programs in English, computer science, natural sciences, Clinical and Industrial / Organizational Psychology, and several engineering disciplines.

The University of New Brunswick has attempted to reduce its environmental impact through installing a natural gas burning microturbine at the Central Heating Plant that produces 100 kW of electricity for the university.

* John S. Hougham, natural scientist and President, Purdue University, 1876

* Natural Sciences Tripos Provides information on the framework within which most of the natural science is taught at the University of Cambridge.