But that is starting to change as tools and techniques are developed to assess "environmental services" such as carbon sequestration, water cycle regulation and – to a less clear extent – climate maintenance and habitat provision.
With the help of fluorescence detecting technology and stratified scanning, LSCM can give the ratio of light and heavy oil in remaining oil, and quantitatively describe the distribution of light and heavy oil, and give the 2D and 3D distribution maps of oil and mineral and provide the feature of oil and water in rock pore to a more clear extent.
Validating these results, the same picture emerged, albeit to a less clear extent, when fractionating the BDI-I, STAI-S and STAI-T into anhedonic versus other symptom clusters.
Related to this is the question of how to make a clear distinction between extent and resultative V-DE constructions, if such a distinction is to be made.
Ecological studies in Europe suggest that there is a clear association between extent of antibiotic use and rate of resistance [ 5].
In addition, several studies have shown a clear association between extent of disease and oncological outcome (Verwaal et al, 2004), highlighting the urgent need for more precise radiological methods for preoperative assessment of disease location and burden.
A clear difference in the extent of bone ingrowth was determined for the different scaffold types.
No one has a clear understanding of the extent of the danger to workers over the past few decades.
This places a clear constraint on the extent to which it can publicly defend itself or become involved in political negotiations.
Dr. ElBaradei's confidence, however, was leavened by his acknowledgment that neither his agency, nor the intelligence branches of the big countries, have a clear idea of the extent of nuclear trafficking.
You may wish to display the map of the proposed Ice Age Floods Geologic Park ( //www.iceagefloodsinstitute.org/trail.html) to give students a clear idea of the extent of the area under discussion.
