In our experience, increased practical relevance has a highly positive impact on the awareness and acceptance of SOC techniques in general.
While initially conceived for the manufacturing industry, they have recently been recognised as having increasing relevance to the healthcare sphere.
Gustard once told me he enjoyed reading Malcolm Gladwell's book Blink, which suggests experts in certain fields can instinctively be correct even when the evidence suggests otherwise, but he also believes technology has increasing relevance within rugby.
Web 2.0, a term encompassing the collaborative use of information technology (blogs, social media, podcasts) has increasing relevance to EM education [ 14].
Presently, the application of digital elevation or surface models have increasing relevance in all areas of scientific research and in practical engineering applications.
Health, educational and quality of life (QoL) outcomes have increasing relevance to children with serious congenital heart defects (CHDs), who can now expect to survive into adulthood.
Single neuropathological entities such as Alzheimer's dementia and Lewy body pathology appear to have declining relevance to cognitive decline, while mixed pathology with Alzheimer's disease, vascular disease (especially cortical microinfarcts), and hippocampal sclerosis appear to have increasing relevance.
Hawai'i hospitalization data is extremely diverse, including racial/ethnic groups not easily captured in most population-based samples, but that have increasing relevance to the U.S. population generally due to their increasing size [ 9].
The use of role-play techniques has proven increasing relevance in many aspects: increasing the understanding and experience of participants about the context, creating an embodied and common understanding of the ideas being developed and communicating the concepts in their context.
