Was this sharp decline in raw material costs a boon to oil refiners?
THE power and reach of online reference materials are a boon to today's scholars and researchers.
Still, Lindsey believes that the new dimension of liberty — emancipation from the preoccupation with subsistence — has been a boon because material security has reduced "stress".
Known more technically as "quark-gluon matter," the material is also a boon for theoretical physicists, since their theory of strong particle interactions, called quantum chromodynamics, had predicted that the bizarre state should exist.
Soil decomposition could also change in terms of rates and pathways both because of diminished oxygen availability and because of the flushing of metabolic waste material into the water (Boon 2006).
Such progress could be a boon to materials scientists, says Robertson.
If that were not enough, throw in the return of the Keanes - Robbie and Roy - who both had fleeting spells at Celtic Park and lifelong supporters of the club like Shay Given and you have enough material for a Mills & Boon tear-jerker.
For some bicycle makers, like tiny Calfee Designs, a frame builder in Santa Cruz, Calif., that has 15 years experience with carbon fiber, the material's trendiness has been a boon.
We don't know if this was helpful for the intended beneficiaries, but the effective preservation of much art and material culture has been a great boon for modern scholars of ancient civilizations.
The newly expanded genetic code opens the way to a whole universe of new proteins a potential boon to drug and materials developers.
