That is, brands offer a promise of personal validation through possession, which can ultimately land consumers on an endless, addictive treadmill.

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Today, science is the religion to which we try and understand reality and science is more about seeking perceptual validation through observation, through experiment theory.

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The applicants were told to present a financially self-sustaining venture that would be able to scale up to serve the needs of at least 1 million people with demonstrable customer validation through sales or pilots.

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While typically monitored through satellite imagery direct validation of chlorophyll blooms at this resolution provides a groundbreaking link between scientific modeling and in-situ measurement of the Pacific Ocean.

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The standard was developed through the Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP), which certifies products for use by U.S. government agencies and regulated industries that collect, store, transfer, share and disseminate sensitive information.

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It lays the foundations for a national system of recognition, validation and certification for the competencies that adults have acquired through formal, non-formal and informal channels.

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In his view, human happiness derives neither from external validation nor solely from within, but from "between": through the relationships created by love, work, and "something larger than yourself" -- whether it's a religious group, a volunteer organization, or a political campaign.

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Its role in lymphocyte signaling was characterized and explored through lots of cell-based and in vivo models, including RNAi and other target validation approaches.

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