For Kessler, the analogy is not merely rhetorical: research on rats, he maintains, proves that the animals' brains react to sweet, fatty foods the same way that addicts' respond to cocaine.
But he argues that the demonstration in February showed that quantum computing was not merely a research project, and proved that there was a real and imminent value to businesses.
The latter should accept that if a paper is published as a research paper in a peer-reviewed legal or philosophical journal, it is the result of rigorous research, not merely personal opinion (or whim).
They are not merely expendible sources of research data.
They were developed by a company that invested heavily in research, not merely a patent-buying and licensing firm.
"We were beginning to see in our research not merely a cooling off in terms of people's views of Palin," David Plouffe observed, "but downright concern about her qualification".
Not merely has it been researched extensively and intensively, but also a variety of forecasting methods has been raised.
Importantly, scholars note that design-based research is not merely designing and testing interventions; as interventions embody theoretical claims about teaching and learning, research on specific interventions suggests a commitment to understanding the relationships among theory and practice as well (Design-Based Research Collective, 2003).
Qualitative research is indispensable, it is true, but Gilligan presents her research as not merely impressionistic but quantitative.
Ideally, the scientists involved do not merely function as objects of research, as is the case in more traditional types of research, but are invited and allowed to comment on (preliminary versions of) ELSA analyses and assessments.
