Kate McIver, of the Pain Research Institute at Liverpool University, said work done there on helping amputees create mental images of pain-free limbs - which operated on the same basic principle as the US research - had also proved effective.
The rationale behind the legal principle is that publishers can research, review and edit the content they publish whereas distributors often cannot easily do so for the content they distribute.
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More often, they resist it in principle, and have little time for the research involved.
Alex Bols, executive director of the 1994 Group of research intensive universities, agreed in principle with the idea that universities needed to engage with potential students at an earlier age.
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"The principle of Universal Credit is sound but our research has found the actual roll-out could unintentionally trap people in poverty and hardship, " the organisation's chief executive Julia Unwin said.
At that stage Dr Pusztai's research simply looked like a proof of principle checking that the techniques for transplanting and testing lectin genes worked, prior to exploring other, less harmful lectins as built-in insecticides for crops.
Karen Addington, chief executive of Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, who funded the research said the study provided "proof of principle" of an artificial pancreas.
Research has shown that the James-Lange principle works in reverse, too.
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Such an experiment is somewhat ad hoc but should at least provide a proof-of-principle, according to Jim Tartaglia , global head of HIV research at Aventis.
The principle of good enough is a critical one taught by Clayton Christensen as part of his disruptive innovation research: A technology needs to be just good enough to give people solutions to their problems, answers to their questions, fulfillment to their fundamental needs.
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