It's over-arching theme, as stated in its press release, is instruments and technology: "Musical instruments are somewhat of a technological anomaly" states Thorne in the release.
Accordingly, legislative and technological instruments have been implemented to reduce the amounts of marine plastic debris.
Over the years it has shown to contain an assortment of crime-fighting tools, weapons, and investigative and technological instruments.
More recently, technological changes in DNA sequencing, including the recently introduced 'NextGen' instruments and associated molecular technologies, have enabled both higher-throughput and more sensitive assays that provide important new opportunities for basic discovery and clinical application (Mardis, 2009).
At the root of this alienation, they argue, is a narrow positivist conception of rationality which sees rationality as an instrument for pursuing progress, power and technological control, and takes observation, measurement and the application of purely quantitative methods to be capable of solving all problems.
Command and control instruments are usually adapted to market and technological developments throughout time.
It must include binding commitments to ensure access to financial resources and technological knowhow, and reform instruments like the clean development mechanism to ensure they work for Africa.
While it has long been acknowledged that the stimulation of innovation and technological change involves different types of policy instruments, how such instruments form policy mixes has only recently become of interest.
In the past few decades, solid waste management systems in Europe have involved complex and multi-faceted trade-offs among a plethora of technological alternatives, economic instruments, and regulatory frameworks.
What's interesting to me is the way Beethoven's compositions transcend the instruments of their time, forcing the piano builders to develop ever greater sonority and technological refinement.
