As a result a narrative synthesis methodology [ 16] was applied to analyse research papers and reports whose quality has been appraised using acknowledged tools.
It is a validated and acknowledged tool for assessing anxiety in different populations and languages [ 12] and has been used in several studies on parental anxiety related to childhood heart murmurs and other health conditions in children [ 1, 7, 9– 13, 13].
The number of studies using P. taeda micro-arrays proved these arrays to be a common and acknowledged tool for assessing differential gene expression in several species belonging to the Pinaceae [ 29, 30].
It is a widely acknowledged tool for generating results which are very reliable, and significantly reduces speed and cost that would have been incurred if coding was done by humans (Rosenberg et al. 1990).
One generally acknowledged tool for evaluating communication skills is the Kalamazoo Consensus Statement (KCS).
The judge acknowledges that the tools and expertise to circumvent the system are readily available, but says: "Even assuming that they all have the ability to acquire such expertise, it does not follow that they will all wish to expend the time and effort required".
Among others, UNICEF has helped to develop the following two data tools, acknowledged by governments and development agencies worldwide as leading indicators, and is itself the lead agency for monitoring global and country data on the six Goals related to children.
Ron Dick, chief of the F.B.I.'s computer investigations and operations section, acknowledged that tools for this type of attack, known as a distributed denial of service attack, are so readily available on the Web that "a 15-year-old could use them to launch these attacks".
In the last decade optical biosensors, based on surface plasmon resonance (SPR) phenomenon, became well acknowledged screening tools, that provide a real-time and automated analysis with relatively high capacity [ 24].
They stop short of saying that A. africanus was using and making stone tools and acknowledge that these grips could have been used for a number of different activities with tools.
