The mechanisms of antibody activity were used to devise diagnostic tests for a number of diseases.
The rating agencies made public computer models that were used to devise ratings to make the process less secretive.
Hence the length of rope, used to devise hexagons, polygons, squares, arcs and, of course, circles, which computer technology can easily demonstrate.
Digital-rendering and engineering software has long been used to devise complete virtual prototypes, but Lincoln designers think there is much to be said for the human touch.
Continental fiction is also well represented, beginning with ETA Hoffmann's wonderful "The Sandman", the story that Freud later used to devise his theory of the uncanny as the sign of the return of the repressed.
We have also started the debate about English devolution and reform of the outdated Barnett formula, which is used to devise how much local government funding areas in the UK receive.
Marketing companies regularly keep tabs on which prospective customers open their e-mail solicitations, and at what time of day, arguing that the data is used to devise more personalized promotions.
Marketing companies now regularly keep tabs on which prospective customers open their e-mail solicitations, and at what time of day, arguing that consumers benefit because the information is used to devise more personalized promotions.
A scan of the patient's mouth is used to devise a treatment plan, which in turn generates a digital file which is used to 3D-print a set of 20 or so moulds.
A State Department note in 1986, which was used to devise American policy toward Libya, suggested "a coup or assassination attempt" against Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Libyan leader, after President Ronald Reagan had affirmed a ban on the killing of foreign officials.
The serious negotiations are being conducted in a secretive process that looks a little like the one that President Bill Clinton and the first lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton, used to devise their ill-fated plan for universal health insurance in 1993.
