Now, however, scientists in England, Monaco and the United States have devised a method to quickly assess the health of a reef, from the air.
(Car and Driver Mazdaannounceded Wednesday that it had devised a method to recycle the bumpers of vehicles that had reached the end of their life cycles.
In the 1980s they devised a method to study the dynamics of unemployment and the effects of government policies on the labour market.
Vodafone initially balked at selling Orange directly to another company because of the tax implications, but according to the executives, it has devised a method to sell the company with a smaller tax liability.
Dr. Brown also devised a method to distinguish between vaccinated animals and those that had been previously infected with the disease, a distinction not immediately clear in moving herds of cattle.
The investigation is a stain on the reputation of Value Line, which traces its history to 1931, when Arnold Bernhard, father of the current chief executive, Jean Bernhard Buttner, devised a method to analyze the financial performance of public companies.
And when a Chicago man killed seven people in 1982 by putting cyanide in Tylenol capsules, the agency devised a method to find contaminated capsules without opening the bottles, making rapid inspections possible.
At his present 40-hour-a-week job at the GHS Corporation of Battle Creek, Mich., which makes strings for guitars and other instruments, he devised a method to reduce scrap by more than 80percentt, saving more than $250,000 a year.
When the cement was poured for the walkway along the water, Ms. Hamilton devised a method to lay dry reeds into the wet cement so that the promenade has a bulrush pattern that looks like a fossil from the original shoreline.
He became obsessed with the exotic birds he found in the wilderness and devised a method to mount the birds on wires to draw them in more lifelike poses".He propped them in positions they would never have had in nature," Mr. Wahlgren said.
Ben Feringa, of the University of Groningen, in the Netherlands, and his colleagues have devised a method to make antibiotics more selective.As they report in Nature Chemistry, this was achieved by slapping chemical structures called diazo compounds to a class of antibiotic called quinolones, developed to treat urinary tract infections.
