There is a conspicuous need for in vivo evaluation of biomaterials prior to their application as bone graft or tissue engineering scaffold.
There is at present a conspicuous need for formal evaluative methods which designers of video and computer games can use in order better to understand the elusive factors which lead to good gameplay mechanics.
One worldly fact is so conspicuous it never needs to be found: The obsession with the conflict in the Middle East has more to do with the hatred of Israel than with Palestinian pain.
An unexpected finding was that Syros females appear to use signal partitioning as well as males, despite our assumption based on previous work that only males would need conspicuous covert signals for sexual competition and mate acquisition (e.g., LeBas and Marshall 2000; Stuart-Fox and Ord 2004; Stuart-Fox et al. 2004; Cummings et al. 2008; Bajer et al. 2010, 2011).
As the epitome of conspicuous consumption, caviar hardly needs celebrity endorsers: its iconic power exists "precisely because of the exorbitant costs and their irrelevance to any concept of necessity".
He suggests that art evolved as a byproduct of other human skills and needs, including conspicuous consumption, and that aesthetic pleasure originates in our practical appreciation of "cues to understandable, safe, productive, nutritious or fertile things in the world".
For Arf6 and TC10 the colocalization appears to be more conspicuous but again this needs to be quantified by cross-correlation analysis (using line-scans).
Also needed are conspicuous indications from the leadership of both the lab and the institution that safety is a priority.
A widespread trade-off between natural and sexual selection in animals is the need for conspicuous sexual signals while minimizing detection by predators.
"Out of the boom years comes this nice kind of reaction with people thinking of basic needs instead of conspicuous consumption when it comes to homes," she explained.
Blue Origin needs a similarly conspicuous success soon, or NASA might think twice about handing over any more obols to Mr Bezos's ferrymen.
