Other sessions though had a much clearer tangible application.
Just as nobody forecast social networks, blogging or Netflix in the 1990s, the absence for now of any tangible applications other than bitcoin for the blockchain merely points to humankind's deficient imagination.All that is needed, blockchain boosters argue, is a "killer app" to find a use for the breakthrough, in the same way that web browsers made the internet useful.
For now, the most obvious – and tangible – application has involved allowing paralysed people to stand and walk.
This contrast sharply with Stanford University, an engine for Silicon Valley, where students are encouraged to do work and research which will have tangible application.
Scientific data, information, and tangible application of technology are critical to underpinning well-informed policies and decisions across the public, private, and voluntary sectors.
Another tangible application of our approach may be the preparation of ionizing radiation-sterilized whole-bacterial cell, whole-virus, or protein vaccines with only nominal loss in immunogenicity.
However, metamaterials are a hot area of industrial research that has a plethora of more tangible applications.
While it feels like artificial intelligence is something that you see referenced at every turn these days in the tech world, RPA is an interesting area because it's one of the more tangible applications of it, across a wide set of businesses.
The noted association with the completeness of the PICOT framing of a research question and the quality of reporting is important [ 24] as it suggests that the theoretical reasoning behind systematically structuring a research question has practical and tangible applications in improving study design and transparency in the actual reporting.
"Rather than being strictly theoretical, it has very tangible applications," she says.
