Marine spatial planning (MSP) is the leading tool for managing human activities at sea.
Marine protected areas (MPAs) have been widely adopted as the leading tool for coral-reef conservation, but resource users seldom accept them [1, 2], and many have failed to produce tangible conservation benefits [3].
Facebook Pages is already perhaps the leading tool for small businesses to interact with customers on the Internet -- an invaluable platform for engaging clients on their own turf.
Facebook understands its leading role as an identity technology -- it is providing the leading tool for individual empowerment, not although, but precisely because it is also the leading tool to deceive, coerce and manipulate the perceptions of others.
While our heroes of yore were alpha males (analytical, independent, driven), today there's an emerging female-style intellect (much less cold, much more social) that is becoming the leading tool for success in our colliding worlds of social, interpersonal, professional and more.
Over the past several years, real-time PCR has become the leading tool for the detection and quantification of nucleic acids.
More recently, insecticide-treated bednets have become a leading tool for malaria control (WHO 2008a) and are making an invaluable contribution to the health of people in malarious areas, cutting, for example, the malaria burden by as much as half in several African countries (WHO 2008b).
Singh and Singla [60] provide an overview of the leading tools and technologies for big data storage and processing, throw some light on other big data emerging technologies, as well as cover the business areas from which big data are being generated.
In fact, since the 80's the emissions trading-mechanism act has served as a leading policy tool for the EPA in effort to reduce emissions (mostly sulfuric dioxide) and as a leading tool to cope with climate change phenomena.
Pinch Analysis is for decades a leading tool to energy integration for retrofit and design.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become the leading imaging tool for providing fine anatomical and physiology details.
