A reliance on freelancers is growing increasingly prevalent in many industries.
This can be used to reduce the over reliance upon engineering judgement which is prevalent in deterministic assessments.
Reliance on the Internet is so prevalent, said the report's author, Susannah Fox, the associate director at Pew, that "Google is the de facto second opinion" for patients seeking further information after a diagnosis.
Although uncertainty is prevalent because of data gaps and the necessary reliance on models (Arnot and Gobas 2006; Zhang et al. 2010), the PBT pass/fail methods do not provide guidance for addressing uncertainty.
Empirical findings informed the model through the construction of a farmer typology, revealing a heavy reliance of the farming community upon sectorial profitability, prevalent cultural farming motives and emerging landscape initiatives.
Difficulties were experienced with identifying the target group that would benefit from proactive delivery of care and support most, and with addressing prevalent issues among older people (e.g. psychosocial issues, self-reliance issues).
Here we review three key biostatistical and epidemiological principles that are commonly misunderstood (over reliance on P-values, confounding versus effect modification, and inception versus prevalent cohort design) and often lead to controversy in analyzing and interpreting results.
Herds can be difficult to defend so traits that promote theft deterrence became prevalent in honor cultures, including a strong defense of oneself and one's family, reliance on a code of honor, and close family ties.
Species capable of autonomous selfing did not show the pattern of exaggerated morphological trait imbalance at higher trait magnitudes prevalent in species reliant on pollinators for fruit set, perhaps because autogamy eliminates their reliance on pollinators and thus the asymmetry in the dependence of one partner on the other.
A reliance on population-averaged measures which ignore cell-to-cell variability is also prevalent in wider pharmacological studies.
For example, insulin resistance is highly prevalent in the diabetic and heart failure population and can impair the shift to glucose reliance [ 13, 93, 138].
