Much applied economics in public policy is concerned with determining how the efficiency of an economy can be improved.

" Much of the TMRC's jargon was later imported into early computing culture, because the club started using a DEC PDP-1 and applied its local model railroad slang in this computing context.

Much confusion has arisen over what proponents of punctuated equilibrium actually argued, what mechanisms they advocated, how fast the punctuations were, what taxonomic scale their theory applied to, how revolutionary their claims were intended to be, and how punctuated equilibrium related to other ideas like quantum evolution, saltationism, and mass extinction.

Much of the early theoretical and applied work in psychometrics was undertaken in an attempt to measure intelligence.

Much of this may be categorized as computational chemistry, although computational chemistry usually refers to the application of theoretical chemistry in an applied setting, usually with some approximation scheme such as certain types of post-Hartree – Fock, density functional theory, semiempirical methods ( such as PM3 ) or force field methods.

Much contemporary use of the words venal or venality is applied to modern professional athletes, particularly baseball, basketball and American football players in the United States and soccer players all around the world.

Much research involving probability is done under the auspices of applied probability, the application of probability theory to other scientific and engineering domains.

Much of this is applied research.

Much as in City of Cleburne, though, the Court's decision in Romer v. Evans ( 1996 ), on which O ' Connor also relied in her Lawrence opinion, and which struck down a Colorado constitutional amendment aimed at denying homosexuals " minority status, quota preferences, protected status or claim of discrimination ," seemed to employ a markedly higher level of scrutiny than the nominally applied rational-basis test.

Much of the information released will be confidential and restrictions should be applied to the viewers ' ability to release this to third parties by forwarding, copying or printing.

Much of Zephyr's original work was applied on subway trains.

Much is made of the leverage gained by using an atlatl, but in fact more leverage can be applied ( to less effect, according to reconstructions ) using a sling to launch a kestrosphendone.

Much earlier, and some 450 miles north of Paris, a specific type of applied anthropology emerged at Leiden University, Netherlands, which focused frequently on the relationship between apparent cultural phenomena and subsurface structures found in the numerous cultures in the Indonesian archipelago: Batak, Minangkabau, Moluccas, etc., though it was primarily aimed at training governors for colonial Indonesia.

Much debate surrounding the issue of ethics arose after the ethnographer Napoleon Chagnon conducted his ethnographic fieldwork with the Yanomani people of South America.

Much of human experience does not fall under science or mathematics but under the philosophy of value, including ethics, aesthetics, and political philosophy.

Much of Price's most important philosophical work was in the region of ethics.

Much progress in theoretical ethics came as Jews came into closer contact with the Hellenic world.

Much of the ethics concerning use of stem cells has subsided from the embryonic / adult stem cell debate due to its rendered moot, but now societies find themselves debating whether or not this technology can be ethically used.

Much of the school's financial troubles stem from a September 2006 lawsuit accusing the school's founder, Len Buccellato, of multiple ethics oversights, including the employment of unqualified instructors, knowingly accepting dangerous students and misuse of school funds.

Much criticism has been leveled at this rather forced analogy, but what is equally significant is Adams' complete acceptance of the Biblical record as `` good and trustworthy history ''.

Much more important is to grasp the feelings of the narrator ( whose full name is never given ) as he becomes aware of the disorganized and bewildered mass of French prisoners clustered together in a temporary prison camp in and around the cathedral of Chartres.

Much of his earlier work was conceived in terms of a `` pseudo-anthropological '' myth reference, which is concerned with imaginary places and beings described in grandiloquent and travelogue-like language.

Much of this necessary increase in research and development, though properly chargeable to current expenses, is not reflected in earnings until projects are completed and the new machines sold in quantity, usually over a period of several years.

Much of the dirt and leaf stain is easily removed when damp, but requires dynamite if allowed to dry.

Much debate exists as to whether true altruism is possible.

Much of the distinct character of France's anthropology today is a result of the fact that most anthropology is carried out in nationally funded research laboratories ( CNRS ) rather than academic departments in universities

Much energy is used in the vocalization and it takes a toll on the territory holder who may be displaced by a fitter rival if he tires.

Much of its shock value derives from the fact that the first portion of the essay describes the plight of starving beggars in Ireland, so that the reader is unprepared for the surprise of Swift's solution when he states, " A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragoust.

Much of the Alpine culture is unchanged since the medieval period when skills that guaranteed survival in the mountain valleys and in the highest villages became mainstays, leading to strong traditions of carpentry, woodcarving, baking and pastry-making, and cheesemaking.

Much of the story is told first-hand, since Spalding had been involved in the game, first as a player and later an administrator, since the 1850s.

Much of the façade is decorated with a mosaic made of broken ceramic tiles ( trencadís ) that starts in shades of golden orange moving into greenish blues.

Much of the transportation of passengers is done via aircraft.

Much valued from antiquity to the present as a gemstone, amber is made into a variety of decorative objects.

Much of the most highly prized amber is transparent, in contrast to the very common cloudy amber and opaque amber.

Much of the book is set at his court in Brittany or during the campaign to retake his throne from Vortigern.

Much of the ACC transport is carried in this front, which is defined as the latitude at which a subsurface salinity minimum or a thick layer of unstratified Subantarctic Mode Water first appears, allowed by temperature dominating density stratification.

Much effort is also put into analyzing biological systems.

Much research is carried out into thin amorphous films as a gas separating membrane layer.

Much of the history of the Hittite Empire was concerned with warring with the rival empires of Egypt, Assyria and the Mitanni.

Much of the design study was concerned with a simple, flexible chemical system for processing the ores, and the differences between the ratio of elements needed by the replicator, and the ratios available in lunar regolith.

Much of Dennett's work since the 1990s has been concerned with fleshing out his previous ideas by addressing the same topics from an evolutionary standpoint, from what distinguishes human minds from animal minds ( Kinds of Minds ), to how free will is compatible with a naturalist view of the world ( Freedom Evolves ).

Much of Clausewitz's thinking was based on his experience as a Prussian war planner concerned with how to use popular forces in an insurrectionary struggle against the much-superior French forces which occupied Prussia after 1806 — how, in short, to wage a " Spanish War in Germany.

Much of the modern electoral process is concerned with winning swing states through frequent visits and mass media advertising drives.

Much of theoretical rheology is concerned with associating external forces and torques with internal stresses and internal strain gradients and velocities.

Much of the design study was concerned with a simple, flexible chemical system for processing lunar regolith, and the differences between the ratio of elements needed by the replicator, and the ratios available in regolith.

Much of the basic theory of thermodynamics is concerned with homogeneous systems in thermodynamic equilibrium.

Much of the controversy concerned the parts of the book in which the authors wrote about racial differences in intelligence and discuss the implications of those differences.

Much of Durkheim's work was concerned with how societies could maintain their integrity and coherence in modernity ; an era in which traditional social and religious ties are no longer assumed, and in which new social institutions have come into being.

Much of Frederick Law Olmsted's work was concerned with urban design, and so the ( then-new ) profession of landscape architecture also began to play a significant role in the late 19th century.

Much of the work in the field of philosophy of language is concerned with the relation between meanings and the world, and this concern cross-cuts formal semantics in several ways.

Much of season seven is concerned with Kara's attempts to adjust to life on Earth, especially after learning of Krypton's destruction and the fact that her ' younger ' cousin is now at least the same age as her.

Much of the novel is concerned with Stevens ' professional and, above all, personal relationship with a former colleague, the housekeeper Miss Kenton.

Much as he criticised the Treaty, the Webster-Ashburton Treaty did, however, successfully close some other questions with which Palmerston had long been concerned.

Much of this work was carried out by the growing number of clerks, however, and members of the legal profession became concerned about the " famine " of equity judges.

Much of the debate concerned whether such affiliates could be owned by a bank ( as with “ operating subsidiaries ” in the 1990s ) or would be bank holding company subsidiaries outside the chain of bank ownership.

Much of Spacemen 3's music concerned documenting the drug experience and conveying the related feelings.

Much of Oldham's history is concerned with textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution ; it has been said that " if ever the Industrial Revolution placed a town firmly and squarely on the map of the world, that town is Oldham.

Much of James's political writing was concerned with such matters, and the " refutation of the argument that ' faith did not need to be kept with heretics.

Much of the dissent concerned a disbelief in the validity of the law school's claim that the system was necessary to create a " critical mass " of minority students and provide a diverse educational environment.

Much of the history of the village is dominated by Glastonbury Abbey until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and indeed its name comes from a 12th century causeway from Glastonbury which was built to transport local Blue Lias stone from what is now Street to rebuild the Abbey, although it had previously been known as Lantokay and Lega ( note: there is a quite different small hamlet called Street in Somerset, just north of the village of Holcombe, with which this article is not concerned ).