Sentences with phrase «widespread scientific use»

Case and his colleagues concluded that most were used for military purposes, such as spotting distant ships or approaching troops, or were simply collected as status symbols, before they achieved widespread scientific use.

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In recent decades, theoretical developments and widespread availability of powerful computers have drastically changed the sorts of problems that scientists and technologists can tackle, greatly altered the methods they use, and brought about major upheaval in rather fundamental concepts used in scientific work.

«We are really behind when it comes to regulatory oversight for the marketing of these supplements, and for rigorous scientific research showing the impact of their widespread use on children,» Lampl says.

Microwave atomic clocks have been the de facto standards for precision time and frequency metrology over the past 50 years, finding widespread use in basic scientific studies, communications, and navigation.

While military sonar systems and seismic airguns used in oil / gas exploration and scientific research have received considerable attention in the overall issue of noise impacts on marine life, less intense but far more widespread and chronically - present noise sources, particularly large commercial ships, have only recently begun to be specifically considered.

There is widespread agreement in the scientific and legal literature that the use of the term climate refugee is scientifically and legally problematic (Taccoli, 2009; Piguet, 2010; Black et al., 2011a; Gemenne, 2011; Jakobeit and Methmann 2012; Bettini, 2013; Piguet, 2013).

To use the word «campaign» is not meant to connote an organized conspiracy led by one or a few entities who coordinate all actors, but rather a social movement that creates widespread, predictable, and strong opposition to climate change policy and that consistently uses scientific uncertainty arguments as the basis of its opposition.

Dissemination of parenting interventions can be strengthened by attending to several key factors and principles: (i) ensuring interventions are used that match families» needs and preferences, (ii) strong scientific evidence is available to support intervention components used in a population based approach, (iii) multiple destigmatized access points are provided for families and (iv) cost - effective strategies are used.47 Poor participation and engagement by parents in parenting programmes stands as one of the most difficult barriers to widespread effective implementation of parenting programmes.48, 49 Parental willingness to participate in a parenting programme depends on several interacting variables.