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At present much of this work is done by hand or by adapting existing instruments and devices.To start with, only simple tissues, such as skin, muscle and short stretches of blood vessels, will be made, says Keith Murphy, Organovo's chief executive, and these will be for research purposes.

Comparing this adapted HTQ to the 17-item used by Schweitzer and colleagues supports the importance of adapting existing instruments to fit the experiences of different groups [ 25].

Although this so-called process-based system was developed under the umbrella of the community environmental law it did not adapt existing instruments for assessing environmental risks of technical and industrial activities, e.g. environmental impact assessment, but kept the GMO risk assessment approaches that had been developed in the context of the technology development.

The 'shelf life' of an instrument will vary depending upon its area of application, and researchers who adapt existing instruments for new contexts need to be sensitive to how such new contexts can differ from the original development context on many dimensions [ 38, 39].

We assessed risk of bias for each included study using an instrument we developed by adapting existing risk of bias guidance used to evaluate human studies in the clinical sciences: the Cochrane Collaboration's Risk of Bias tool (Higgins and Green 2011) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's criteria (Viswanathan et al. 2012).

The biggest problem in energy efficiency is adapting existing buildings.

Adapting existing buildings presents an attractive option too: less resource use, less environmental impact, less investment.

Adapting existing Web sites for use by these wireless browsers is a relatively small additional expense.

Makers have also saved money by adapting existing film S.L.R. camera bodies for digital use.

In some cases, this means adapting existing information to new messages.

Another architectural firm that is adapting existing buildings is Gencorelli & Salo of Merrick.