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But just as the technology for detecting substances improves, new methods of artificial performance enhancement emerge.
Other potential detection methods, likely to be implemented in the near future, could identify traces of the viral vector or detect activating substances used to enhance activity of the newly introduced gene.
Several of Snow’s methods are directly applicable to the modern problem of antimicrobial resistance.
Ooniprobe’s network-measurement data not only confirmed the government’s action; it also uncovered which sites were blocked and the different methods used by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to implement censorship.
Belarus won independence in 1991, but, since 1994, President Alexander Lukashenko has shamelessly embraced communist symbols – and methods – to cling to power.
The important thing is that the methods chosen are the right ones, which means that from President Putin on down legality must not only be respected, but shown to be respected.
Despite being driven by an enormous amount of data overseen by some of the world’s top data scientists, its results are susceptible to “search-engine optimization” and manipulation, such as “Google bombing,” “spamdexing,” and other methods serving parochial interests.
Toyota’s European executives were, to be sure, proud to be part of the company and full of admiration for its products and production methods, but there also seemed to be problems of trust and communication.
How best to measure scholastic ability in different contexts can be discovered by researching the academic progress of students admitted on the basis of competing methods of assessment, such as exam scores, IQ tests, interviews, and so on.
To address this shortcoming, donors and governments should fund the development of survey methods to measure adolescent death rates.
It is thus imperative that governments and donors invest in building an expert consensus on how best to measure mental health and implement those methods globally, including in low-resource settings.
But much can be done to enhance the effectiveness of these methods, whether by improving the devices themselves or by implementing control programs in various ecological settings.
Similarly, knowledge of symbiosis and tsetse reproduction can be harnessed to develop new methods to control tsetse populations.
A "national identity" was invented, justifying power in new ways and enabling new methods of control.
If this information were to reach the government of Paraguay – which has its own methods for collecting data – we could identify pockets of poverty sooner and customize programs to help each family.
There was a massive conversation going on, and BP was neither a part of it nor able to control it via traditional communication-management methods.
A detailed analysis of the killing method used in Taiji shows it to be far removed from accepted methods for slaughter in the developed world.
Why does Japan’s animal welfare legislation not put a stop to the suffering of the dolphins, as it surely would put a stop to similarly brutal methods of killing cows or pigs?
It is understandable that prior to the development of scientific methods of classification, cetaceans should be grouped with fish rather than with mammals.
With more sophisticated methods, my colleagues and I were reliably able to distinguish genetic changes, and thus to demonstrate an evolutionary shift toward a younger age at first birth in a small, insular population in Québec over the last 140 years.
Moreover, the US response has strengthened Israel’s belief in the effectiveness of military methods, leading to the recent war in Lebanon and the ongoing invasion of Gaza.
A central feature of the economy prior to the financial crisis was the US housing bubble, which itself resulted from the financial sector’s invention of increasingly intricate (and dubious) methods of recycling global savings.
Today's great powers have relied on similar methods, also heavy with rhetoric, against puny opponents, but with far less convincing results.
But, despite changed conditions, they respond with the same old methods – suppression, intimidation, and misinformation.
The military seems to be reverting to the governing methods – and even the feared security institutions – of former President Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule.
As economics develops, it will broaden its repertory of methods and sources of evidence, the science will become stronger, and the charlatans will be exposed.
While it may sound elegant to distinguish between the “right” and the “wrong” side of history, or to criticize the use of nineteenth-century methods in the twenty-first century, such arguments amount to little more than rhetorical devices.
The road to the ongoing financial and economic crisis was built on a foundation of intellectual capture: not only regulators, but academics, too, became captivated by modern finance and its methods.
He may indeed have experienced a spasm of emotion when he saw images of dead and dying children on TV, as has been widely reported; but visual evidence of Assad’s bloody methods has long been available.
To his credit, however, he has been effective in navigating the racial thicket of Ferguson, Missouri, by turning the killing of an unarmed teenager into a focal point for national action to improve police methods.
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