For most locals, however, the practical application of these stories has diminished over time.

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Although carbon dioxide is the more important greenhouse gas, methane measurements will be a more practical early application to test the market for this sort of data.

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The book provides practical methods for supporting improved participatory processes, including the application of theory and models to aid decision-making.

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

One somewhat practical application, they say, might also be for game play, where, say, a shooting game could be programmed to release the smell of gunpowder.

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The practical application here is that the ability to maintain entanglement for a long period of time is key to building real quantum information networks.

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The first practical application of embryonic stem cells was to provide a way for the gene-targeting trick invented by Dr Capecchi and Dr Smithies to be used to produce adult mice lacking particular genes or knockout mice, as they are now called.

ECONOMIST: The 2007 Nobel science prizes

It could be argued that this is a moment of great change in business education, not unlike that which led to the Gordon-Howell report, as the research-practical application debate, the emphasis on ethics and the demand for MBAs provoked by the financial crisis come together.

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For instance, a calligraphy course that he took on a lark after dropping out of Reed College found practical application 10 years later in designing the first Macintosh computer, and influenced the typefaces used in other computers.

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