As economies of the world aggregate, monitoring the growth and operation of SWFs becomes an ever-more delicate and indispensable task.

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That spirit is marked by an ability to strategically focus on the seeds that leadership has sown, constantly monitoring their growth and promise.

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If Proteus is right, and these sensors become commonplace, exponential growth in digital medicine for compliance monitoring will require as much silicon wafer manufacturing as all computer chips use today.

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Bishop is bullish on eResearch because of its rapid growth, driven by its dominance of centralized cardiographic monitoring of patients participating in clinical drug trials.

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And finally, all the monitoring, reporting and analytics features needed to understand trends, growth, and noticeable changes.

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Selling credit monitoring directly to consumers is "an area of focus for growth for us, " says Colleen Martin, TransUnion's spokeswoman.

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Scientists around the globe exploit the information in myriad ways - from monitoring the health of crops and the status of volcanoes, to measuring the growth of cities and the extent of glaciers.

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