And of course, investments in infrastructure constitute positive contributions to the economy, which ultimately strengthen our ability to direct resources toward defense.
Moreover, insufficiently internalised climate change externalities interact with knowledge and learning spillovers which are associated with investing in and using innovative flexibility options and constitute positive externalities.
We conclude that private initiatives like the CBFA may constitute positive, initial steps toward large-scale conservation planning, but their successful integration into protected area networks will require scientifically robust and transparent efforts that are more fully coordinated with public initiatives.
What constitutes positive adjustment has been contested (Schoon 2006).
These factors were perceived to constitute positive and conducive work climate (Capacity Project [ 25]).
Yet it constitutes positive progress, a realistic option in the current global political and economic context.
For example, researchers, perhaps preoccupied with the problem of statistical power for small populations, are often stricter than a lay person might expect as to what constitutes positive evidence of an environmental health problem.
The testing began late, in July, because the two sides could not agree on numerous issues, including what constituted a positive test.
This study did not define what constituted a positive test.
Six studies failed to define what constituted a positive test [ 26, 28, 30, 56, 58, 60].
The 347 T4S and 694 non-T4S sequences constituted final positive and negative dataset, respectively (Additional file 16: Text S2).
