Sentences with phrase «alternative assumptions as»

Backed by research and other evidence, he points out the flaws in each assumption, and then proposes alternative assumptions as the basis for new, innovative schools that would emphasize such elements as

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There appears to have been an assumption that this disclosure is required, because these funds constitute «Designated Investment Alternatives,» a term defined by the applicable disclosure regulations as «an investment alternative designated by the plan into which participants and beneficiaries may direct the investment of assets held in, or contributed to, their individual accounts.»

And in a society that is not only deeply religious but decidedly secular, other values and assumptions stand as ready alternatives to the civil religion.

I think Cobb would agree that the only alternative to this position leads to a lack of self - consciousness about one's philosophical assumptions and thus induces a false security as to the adequacy of one's theological formulations.

On the assumption that God must be defined as «a supernatural being», it has led some to atheism as the only alternative.

This final part of Griffin's argument for the process theodicy turns on an assumption that he appears to have borrowed by Hartshorne, viz., that the so - called «social view» of omnipotence is the only alternative to the monopolistic (and thus to the standard) view.9 The critique of the latter thus established the former as (in Griffin's words) «the only view that is coherent if one is talking about the power a being with the greatest conceivable amount of power could have over a created, i.e. an actual world» (GPE 269).

In practice, as we have seen, they offer no real alternative but instead operate with many of the same assumptions and techniques as the psychological model.

But critics showed that discordant data alone have seldom been taken to falisfy an accepted theory in the absence of an alternative theory; instead, auxiliary assumptions have been modified, or the discrepancies have been set aside as anomalies.

In spite of these excellent results, there remains a common assumption that because mothers living with HIV in industrialized countries such as Europe, North America and Australia have access to clean water and safe infant feeding alternatives, breastfeeding avoidance is free from risk.

My assumption is that the mafia plays a decisive role in determining the destination of collected municipal waste in order to gain profit from illegal disposal, and that, by doing so, it behaves as a (bad) alternative provider of a public service.

Under the assumption of equal caring, we take it that someone's preference for their first choice over all other alternatives should carry equal weight as a preference to their next - to - worst preference versus what they like least.

In the case of recalcitrant evidence, it is never clear whether scientists should go for the option of modifying the auxiliary assumptions (e.g., number of planets, as in the case of Neptune), or for the alternative option of revising the main theoretical hypotheses themselves (e.g., from Newtonian mechanics to general relativity, as in the case of the anomalous perihelion of Mercury).

'... Australian students are good at generating new knowledge and can be characterised as quick learners - questioning their knowledge and challenging assumptions, and generating and experimenting with alternatives - and good at abstract - information processing,» the report said.

LEAs may use for this purpose either the same source of data used to select and allocate funds among public schools (i.e., usually free or free and reduced - price school lunch data) or one of a specified range of alternatives, such as data from an income survey of private school families, private school scholarship applications, or estimates based on the assumption that the percentage of students attending a private school who are from low - income families is the same as that for public school students who reside in the same geographic area.

We presented at the negotiations, as an alternative, a 10 - year amortization period for all programs, which we believe is a reasonable assumption.

Through glass works designed and fabricated in Murano and the Seattle area, as well as in paintings, sculpture, prints, and video, Wilson challenges assumptions about history, culture, and display practices, offering alternative interpretations and encouraging viewers to reconsider how they think and what they know.

From this assumption it is not as unreasonable to point out that there are still things about solar and natural variability such as AMO that we don't understand, and perhaps these are viable alternative explanations for the warming we have seen.

As model assumptions & results must be examined with a critical attitude, it would help to have contributions or alternative models from skeptics.

Major studies built upon biased assumptions favoring alternative technology, nevertheless show huge costs for renewable resources as opposed to high gas generation scenarios.

As an alternative to this approach, our statistical model is only based on the additivity assumption; the proposed method does not regress observations onto expected response patterns.

Further «Hence we can say that no CO2 effect on the temperatures has been observed since 1978...» is a nonsense argument as it presupposes an alternative i.e. it does not falsify but relies on its own assumptions (uproven).

If my assumption that facts = truths is correct, then I don't think that there are such things as «alternative facts».

You can prove as Steven has done that making natural sources dominate requires quite extraordinary assumptions, so extreme that it's not difficult to reach the conclusion that the alternative is unrealistic.

Parties who wish to propose alternative demand forecasts or to question the assumptions and methods of entities contributing demand forecasts should use this workshop as their opportunity to contribute to the record of the proceeding.

Please construe any such calculation as equivalent to a sensitivity calculation to show the effect of (say) excluding bristlecones, to illustrate the impact of certain assumptions, but not advocacy of a specific alternative.

Alternative approaches include using SRES scenarios as surrogates for some stabilisation scenarios (Swart et al., 2002; see Table 2.4), for example to assess impacts on ecosystems (Leemans and Eickhout, 2004) and coastal regions (Nicholls and Lowe, 2004), demonstrating that socio - economic assumptions are a key determinant of vulnerability.

On the basis of this unstated assumption, neither the CCJ nor the ABA (nor nearly any other individual or organization that calls for greater funding for legal aid) suggests or even appears to have considered the potential of alternative structures as a viable complement to increased public funding.

However, the passages Justice Huscroft cites here from DiTomaso speak of the declining importance of characterizing low level unskilled employees as deserving less notice because of the assumption they would have an easier time finding alternative employment.

While I suspect there will always be a need for authoritarian and perhaps adversarial court processes to address truly intractable individuals and problems of genuine urgency, I worry that a reconceptualization of the system may call for more than triage processes and the co-locatation of social services, both of which are reconfigurations of existing services, but may demand a fundamental reconsideration of our basic assumptions and a critically examination of alternatives such as inquisitorial processes, abridged trial procedures, non-adversarial judging techniques, the embedding of mental health professionals in decision - making processes and so forth.

In Kleinwort Benson Ltd v Sandwell BC, reported with the conjoined case of Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale v Islington LBC at [1994] 4 All ER 890, Hobhouse J reasoned that (seemingly on balance) he would follow the «weak» «expression of an opinion» in re Diplock at p 514 that the phrase in s 2 (1)(a) of the 1939 Act, now s 5 of the 1980 Act, «actions founded on simple contract» «must be taken to cover actions for money had and received... [t] he assumption must, we think, be made though the words used can not be regarded as felicitous», the alternative being no time - bar at all.

Findings in this heavily litigated area are often predicated on erroneous clinical assumptions such as: that doctors accept uncritically and at face value what the client says about their history (HE (DRC — credibility and psychiatric reports) Democratic Republic of Congo [2004] UKIAT 00321); that only psychiatrists can diagnose conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder (HH (Ethiopia) v SSHD [2007] EWCA Civ 306, [2007] All ER (D) 259 (Mar)-RRB-; and that doctors do not consider alternative explanations, including fabrication when, in fact, this is integrated into medical training and has always been a specified requirement of the IP (para 105 (f)-RRB-.

They are still regarded as marginal, aberrant even and tolerated only as long as they do not encroach on the assumptions held tightly by the profession — that «real» tailoring is bespoke work (even when many clients all seem to end up with a very similar set of clothes); that it the business of highly qualified professional;, and that there are no real alternatives.

[7] While consideration of such alternative systems is beyond the scope of this Report, they must be seriously considered in view of the legal tests established to gain recognition of native title and the difficulty of changing the fundamental assumptions of these tests within the current system as it is governed by the NTA.

As Representatives Elijah Cummings and John Tierney have noted, «even based on your own questionable assumptions and data, your most up - to - date analysis demonstrates that principal reduction programs would serve taxpayer interests more effectively than any other alternative.»