Accelerometers are used in physical activity monitoring because of their small size, low cost, convenience, the ability to record data for several days [ 60], and ability to assess multiple dimensions of physical activity [ 61, 62].
As for the utilities, the grid will be useful for the foreseeable future due to its economy of scale, convenience, and ability to deliver large amounts of energy on demand.
And for all the benefits of convenience, the ability to eat anything at any time bore no small connection to our expanding waistlines.
For all the benefits of "L" travel over Chicago's buses -- speed, convenience, the ability to buy a fare card at the same place you get on -- the trains lagged behind in one important aspect: the ability to know when the next one was coming.
Students value video podcasts for convenience and ability to review, but find them less engaging than live lectures.
Greater convenience: the ability to have a procedure performed at the patient's convenience rather than when facilities/doctors are available.
Delighted with technology's conveniences, its ability to make our lives easier by performing an endless array of tasks faster and more efficiently, we have given it free rein in our lives, with little thought to the legal or moral ramifications of allowing surveillance technology, especially, to uncover nearly every intimate detail of our lives.
One is convenience -- the ability to fit childbirth into their work schedules, plan for the care of their other children, or have spouses, parents or both present at the birth.
"But more than anything, this is about convenience and the ability to not have to schedule time to meet at the attorney's office or the title company's office," he said.
There seems to be broad agreement that the benefits of introducing the Internet into medicine -- from convenience to the ability to help patients take better care of themselves -- far outweigh the risks.
