Gambarota believed there were ways human power could be brought into practical use in the home.
One practical use an economic indicator of this sort has is as a contrary indicator.
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For most Japanese (data suggest over 80 percent), English is of little practical use.
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However, NIR only came to practical use in the 1950s as an analytical device.
At many of the gatherings there were far more volunteers than could find a practical use.
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But unless you actually are a bird, the feature won't be of much practical use for navigation.
By 1997 or 1998, Japan's Ministry of Post and Telecommunications predicts, the system will be in practical use.
During my first year of teaching, I sometimes wondered if the knowledge would ever have any practical use.
Apart from low-quality industrial diamonds, the stones had no practical use that would help prop up their price.
However, using sensors to track subtle signals would likely cause some privacy concerns which reduces their practical use.
Government officials have said that they aim to establish methane hydrate production technologies for practical use within five years.
In the practical use case of a connected home, bandwidth will always be limited, but intelligent network management helps address this.
Dr. NIMAR: I think this report stops short of saying things that are of practical use to the law enforcement community.
Environmental and regulatory issues abound, not to mention the need for billions in new infrastructure to make practical use of the finds.
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Knowledge of history can be of real practical use, even in business.
Its technology will now be put to a more practical use helping students to consider challenging cases and offering potential diagnoses.
Second, they are not held to the higher standard of double-checking by an industry responsible for putting their science to practical use.
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Thinking of engineers here, and the clamoring for more engineering degrees, anyone teaching the discipline would as a rule be imparting knowledge of no practical use.
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The invention of an LED goes back to the 1920s but the first LED for practical use was invented by GE scientist Nick Holonyack in 1962.
"I don't like plastic kits, because they look like toys, and most of the applications built by plastic kits are just for fun, without practical use, " he says.
While any practical use is still some distance away, it's easy to see future tablets and tables that are designed from the start to encourage a little socializing.
Even without eventual practical use, it would be good if the Higgs boson had a cultural impact, by moving into the language as a metaphor, just as "light year, " "Darwinian, " "subconscious" and "in the DNA" have done.
As Warren Buffett, ceo of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) (BRK.B) recently wrote in his annual letter to shareholders, gold has limited practical use and is only a buffer against disaster if someone else wants to pay more for it than you did.
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The main feature of irony that makes us associate it so closely with hipsters is that lots of hipsters are essentially downwardly mobile young people who are putting themselves to some practical use, however small or marginal, instead of sitting around getting obese.
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In 2008, Dr Cummer first described the theory of acoustic cloaking in an article in Physical Review Letters, and earlier this year a group from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign demonstrated the first practical use of the theory in an article in the same journal.
When embryonic stem cells were a highly controversial topic at the beginning of the decade, some companies offered to store fat cells from liposuction for a fee after it was discovered that there were stem cells in the fat, but their practical use had not been established.
The primary purpose is to eventually use the technology in new forms of "minimally invasive surgery, " and although the microhand is likely years away from practical use, they're already in cahoots with robotic firm to develop a "slightly larger" rendition with an onboard camera for live action video feeds.
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As a long-standing proponent of marketing integration I can speak to the fact that many marketers still have difficulty in putting it into practical use, including many chief marketing officers which was the basis of my piece aptly titled The Eleven Letter Word That Continues To Elude All CMOs And Marketers.
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There's certainly no shortage of companies working to make electronics of all sorts more energy efficient, but NEC and Rohm Co now say that they're on the verge of a breakthrough that could change things in a big way, and we could possibly see it in "practical use" by the end of this year.
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