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All agree that the ECHR is making progress in reducing the backlog of pending applications.
Likewise, Israel’s military investments have generated a set of solutions that, with some extra effort, have had useful – and lucrative – civilian applications.
And solutions for one problem may have applications in other areas.
The widespread adoption of digital applications such as WeChat – a broader Chinese version of WhatsApp – suggests that Chinese consumers are not particularly put off by government controls, and quite enjoy the wealth of new platforms at their fingertips.
Although human lives can be saved by this kind of assistance to the "poorest of the poor," efforts to promote economic development might more effectively focus on other modes of intervention, such as environmental management, housing improvement, applications of residual insecticide, and efforts against the mosquitoes that transmit the infection.
This places it in direct competition with the United States – which currently leads in those industries – in what is emerging as an undeclared but intensifying cold war over technologies with both commercial and military applications.
By early December, all 28 EU governments had submitted applications – and they are still coming.
Roughly half of plastic products, such as packaging, are intended for one-time, short-lifespan (less than six months) applications prior to disposal.
There are four categories of plastics recycling: primary recycling, in which the plastic is re-used in the same application; secondary recycling, in which material (mixed or contaminated) is used in less demanding applications; tertiary recycling, in which the plastic is converted into monomers or chemicals; and quaternary recycling, in which only energy is recovered through incineration.
Furthermore, industry should seek new applications for recycled materials, while minimizing the amount of virgin material used.
Another promising development is bioplastics, which have begun to compete with petroleum-based products in certain short-lifespan applications – such as packaging and agriculture – over the last two decades.
Other applications are in development.
Gateway countries would establish, in close cooperation with the United Nations Refugee Agency and the EU, processing centers to register asylum-seekers and assess their applications.
Since then, rapid innovation has led to new applications for IVF and other assisted reproductive technologies.
But new medical technologies also offer applications that fall outside of these conventional precepts.
We found that from 2009 to 2013, there were 13,180 patent applications filed by US organizations, or individuals residing in the US, in which at least one applicant had a MENA name.
This represents 5.1% of all US patent applications to WIPO during the 2009-2013 period.
To put these findings in perspective, over the five-year period that we measured, we found that MENA-linked individuals were involved in 220 US patent applications each month.
The number of patent applications filed by US inventors with MENA backgrounds was double that in the European Union.
With 1,780 patent applications, California accounted for 15% of all patents sought by MENA-linked inventors worldwide.
Only Turkey had a larger number of inventors with a MENA background submitting applications.
Other US states with a notable number of MENA-linked patent applications were Texas and Massachusetts;Texas, for example, had only slightly fewer than Saudi Arabia during the 2009-2013 period.
And, because space exploration requires communications and control over vast distances, some of the applications could also enhance South Africa’s lucrative mining sector; after all, controlling machines under the ground is similar to doing so in deep space.
“But the gap between esoteric knowledge and economic applications remains large.”
Subsequent debates about financial reform in the US reflected this imperative, with some of the US Federal Reserve’s founders pointing out the military and financial applications of the term “reserve.”
But, with Italy alone having received more than 63,000 asylum applications and 170,000 irregular migrants last year, the program’s impact would be minimal.
But the same strategies that work for developing nanotechnology applications will not help answer the growing list of questions about its possible impact that governments and industry are asking today.
They will be answered only by matching research efforts and funding levels to the information needed to steer toward a safe future for nanotechnology applications.
We must wake up to the need for future nanotechnology applications to be based on a sound understanding of the possible impact.
The “Impact” Illusion in ScienceSTANFORD – Government-funded scientific research runs the gamut from studies of basic physical and biological processes to the development of applications to meet immediate needs.
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