Ward is a Certified Financial Planner, a significant designation requiring the completion of multiple college courses and passing a two-day exam, but the law allows his less studied colleagues to call themselves anything.
Let us take a moment to give thanks to those who made this significant designation possible -- President Obama and the Department of Interior, and three environmental groups: Center for Biological Diversity, the Natural Resources Defense Council and Greenpeace.
The designation "systemically significant" needs to be reviewed every few years to ensure the list is not under- or over-inclusive.
The criteria for designation of significant up or down-regulation of proteins using the array is described in the Materials and Methods section.
The 'Rx' shown in each panel, derived from the two-factor ANOVA, indicates that the overall effect of acarbose is statistically significant, and the 'Int' designation, for ATF3 and ASNS, indicates that the two sexes had significantly different responses: ATF3 response was higher in females, and ASNS response was higher in males.
"When you have this designation, it has significant meaning," said Martha J. Terrill, who led a group that secured cultural district status for a section of Galveston this year.
Figures show significant differences using letter designations, where A is the highest mean, B indicates the next highest mean, etc.
Even so, ecotype designations capture significant diversity in adaptive life history traits and should be considered when allocating conservation resources.
"While today's designation will add significant cost to our development budget, we believe it also affirms the important balance between the new and the old," he said.
Until more extensive morphological and genetic studies are completed, the researchers have opted to apply the designation E.S.U., evolutionary significant unit, a reproductively isolated population that is important to the species' evolution.
In the US, the legal ramifications of B Corp certification – and the related "Benefit Corporation" designation – can provide significant legal protection for a company's sustainability objectives, both from shareholders and potential takeovers.
