Today the theory is on track to catch up with industry practice and provide pedigree deserves the E-cat and the generator of 1 MW. Credible and renowned theorists are involved to explain this phenomenon which is inconsistent with the known laws of physics and applied.

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Not with the theory but as it turns out in practice.

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As with so much in the infant field of chronotherapy, theory lags practice.

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If nurses get the care of older people right by applying the theory to practice, paying attention to feeding them and providing them with fluids, washing and cleaning them when they are unable to wash themselves, communicating with them and encouraging them through caring, kindness and compassion then caring for other patients will come naturally.

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This plays into a current trend: though there is currently wide support against sexually harassing behaviour in theory, in practice many people find it easy to sympathise with the accused.

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You come up with a great idea, but moving that new discovery from theory to practice or from the lab to the marketplace, that's a challenge.

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As with most things in the corporate world, there is too much process built upon theory and not nearly enough practice built on experience.

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