Understanding plasma flows in the Sun's interior is essential to predicting the solar activity cycle, the researchers said in a paper published online in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
Therefore, understanding growth of these defects, such as a crack, along the polymer-metal interface, is essential to predicting the durability of an adhesive bond.
Determination of pipe residual strength is essential to predicting the service life of corrosion-affected oil and gas pipelines and to instigating maintenance and repairs for the defected pipeline system.
In old-growth forests, the death of old trees creates large gaps that can take many years to refill (Zeide 2005), and understanding the process of gap creation and filling is essential to predicting carbon cycling (Korner and Körner 2003; Seidl et al. 2011; Coomes et al. 2012).
This specialist hill-farming expertise, which was 'not codified anywhere' and was 'passed down orally and by apprenticeship' [16] in fact proved essential to predicting the behaviour of radioactive elements in the soil and to formulating competent strategies to manage the problem.
The report finds that "key data regarding birth and survival rates, breeding patterns, and other information" is essential to predicting and understanding changes in populations and creating successful management and conservation plans.
