A chief implication is related to the fact that the EDI can be interpreted forwards in time and can help to detect if particular groups of children are at risk once they enter kindergarten.
Chief among the implications stemming from this study is that increasingly taller trees and groundcover plants may have increasingly greater restorative potential.
And chief among those implications seems to be that judging a book (at least partly) by its cover has become a legitimate thing to do.
Doing so would have problematic implications, chief among them being that only organisms are living agents.
Ernest Renan, a nineteenth-century French philosopher, noted, "Getting its history wrong is part of being a nation". This truth has profound implications, chief among which is that the cultural and political trajectory of a nation is determined not only by its past, but also - and to a greater extent - by the stories it tells itself about its past.
For one, the age structure of the health workforce holds a number of employment policy implications, chief of which is replacement of losses in the labour force due to retirement.
But this emphasis also underlies its chief weakness: the implication that the foreign policy devised by Nixon and Kissinger lacked intellectual coherence.
"There are grave implications here," Chief Justice Ronald M. George of the California Supreme Court said in an interview.
Worried about the political and legal implications, the chief of staff, William M. Daley, reached out to the proposal's author, Kathleen Sebelius, the health and human services secretary.
Eric E. Schmidt, Google's chief executive, discussed the implications of this "emergent new software applications architecture" in a meeting with computer scientists in Washington last fall.
And you don't have to be Cisco's engineering chief to fathom the implications these issues have on strategy and budgeting.
