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  • adjective of or pertaining to a combination of biology and physics
  • adjective of or pertaining to biophysics

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Examples

  • Many of these critiques have roots in a broad body of research known as biophysical economics, the basic tenets of which are the focus of this analysis.

    Biophysical economics 2008

  • Investing in natural capital (nonmarketed) is essentially an infrastructure investment on a grand scale and in the most fundamental sense of infrastructure — that is, the biophysical infrastructure of the entire human niche, not just the within-niche public investments that support the productivity of the private investments.

    An Introduction to Ecological Economics~ Chapter 3 2008

  • Sometimes ultrasound tests called biophysical profiles are used as well, and Doppler waveform measurement by ultrasound on the placenta/umbilical cord.

    Discussion Forum - TuDiabetes 2010

  • - What criteria should be used: How relevant are considerations such as biophysical and socio-economic indicators, adaptability/transferability, sustainability, institutional complementarity or scientific value?

    1. Tree products in agroecosystems: economic and policy issues. 1992

  • The doctor ordered some blood tests and scheduled a detailed ultrasound, called a biophysical profile, which would provide a rating of the babies’ muscle tone, body movements, and breathing ability, as well as the amount of amniotic fluid, and the blood flow resistance through the umbilical cord.

    Mothering Twins LINDA ALBI 1993

  • The doctor ordered some blood tests and scheduled a detailed ultrasound, called a biophysical profile, which would provide a rating of the babies’ muscle tone, body movements, and breathing ability, as well as the amount of amniotic fluid, and the blood flow resistance through the umbilical cord.

    Mothering Twins LINDA ALBI 1993

  • The doctor ordered some blood tests and scheduled a detailed ultrasound, called a biophysical profile, which would provide a rating of the babies’ muscle tone, body movements, and breathing ability, as well as the amount of amniotic fluid, and the blood flow resistance through the umbilical cord.

    Mothering Twins LINDA ALBI 1993

  • Quesnay and other physiocrats greatly influenced the views of Adam Smith and the fields of biophysical and ecological economics in the 20th century.

    Quesnay, François 2009

  • Even if we conducted a formal university-based experiment and successfully replicated the basic findings many times using different mediums, healers, and deceased spirits; objective biophysical measures, such as supersensitive thermographic cameras; and convincingly ruling out any reasonable possibility of fraud, the findings would not justify the definitive conclusion that Dr. Jones, or any spirit, deceased or otherwise, had shown up.

    The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011

  • The GDV camera was designed to measure biophysical energy fields around the body.

    The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011

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