Much of the popularity of the iLike Facebook application is driven by something called the iLike Music Challenge, where users try to guess songs or artist names based on listening to a 30 second snippet from a song.
The choice of laser parameters for a given microsurgical application is driven by the scale of the targeted biological system (i.e. multi-cellular, cellular or sub-cellular), the acceptable level of collateral damage, and the time scales of the tissue dynamics of interest.
Development of these applications was driven by blind faith in the AI paradigm: "If humans can do a task swiftly and reliably, so should machines".
These newer applications are driven by the need for greater reliability or electrical efficiency to justify the increase in cost.
Some 90% of brand-owners' applications are driven by anxiety, not optimism, says Josh Bourne of the Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse, an industry group.Companies with names that are commonly used by others, such as Delta and United, could struggle to secure the domains they want.
Most industrial applications are driven by electric motors, in which electromagnetic torque is utilized based on the energy conversion from electrical to magnetic then to mechanical energy.
Most of the educational gamification studies and applications are driven by the presumption that gamification in education consists chiefly of incorporating a suitable combination of game elements within learning activities.
Metabolic engineering applications are driven by a desire to decrease costs, increase yields, increase efficiency, increase consumer acceptability, and use renewable feedstocks to provide a more environmentally friendly process than traditional chemical approaches.
This new paradigm is particularly useful for (1) systems where applications are driven by properties or functionality of the streams and not by their chemical constituency or (2) when the streams include numerous (almost infinite number of) components.
