Applied research is the investigative effort aimed at direct applications.
Translational medicine refers to this emphasis in the field on combining medical research and its direct applications -- "taking medicine from the bench to the bedside," Mr. Polf said.
Paul Dirac was a theoretician working on very fundamental physics - relativistic quantum mechanics - and not at all driven by the search for direct applications.
Now, in San Diego, he was taking the opportunity to learn more about the possible direct applications of learned helplessness to the military.
Until the mid-20th century, number theory was considered the purest branch of mathematics, with no direct applications to the real world.
Middlemen at the government office demand bribes of $20 to direct applications to the right bureaucrat, and many people ineligible for pensions were collecting them.
Kinesiology has direct applications to fitness and health, including developing exercise programs for people with and without disabilities, preserving the independence of older people, preventing disease due to trauma and neglect, and rehabilitating people after disease or injury.
European Union countries making the most direct applications to Facebook during the first half of the year were Britain (1,975), Germany (1,886), Italy (1,705) and France (1,547).
"Part of the reason nanotechnology has not resulted in a lot of direct applications yet is that the technologies have not moved from the very small scale to the people-sized scale," he says.
Such gels have direct applications in progressive drug delivery.
Geothermal energy is mostly utilised in direct applications in Turkey.
