Sentences with phrase «approach than a conventional one»

The federal resume requires a different approach than a conventional one, primarily because the federal government looks for a different set of characteristics from its employees.

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Using a variety of complementary and alternative healing modalities and unique diagnostic testing allows us to devise a therapeutic program that is individually tailored to your child's specific needs, rather than the one - size - fits - all approach that is commonly used in conventional medicine.

I was concerned that they would resort to the conventional medical approach to childbirth rather than the patient, woman - centered approach typical of homebirth midwives.

The latest issue of EPJ Special Topics examines the question as to whether econophysics, a physics - based approach to understanding economic phenomena, is more useful and desirable than conventional economics theories.

An international team of researchers developed a method that identifies up to twice as many proteins and peptides in mass spectrometry data than conventional approaches.

In an article published in 2010 University of Texas at Austin psychologist Andrew Butler demonstrated that retrieval practice promotes transfer better than the conventional approach of studying by rereading.

«This approach is a lot more straightforward than conventional gene therapy,» Kole told New Scientist.

Sandia's dark - horse entry in the fusion race still consumes far more energy than it releases, but that is also true of the more conventional — and more expensive — approaches to fusion, such as bombarding encapsulated fuel with laser light from every direction (as the National Ignition Facility in Livermore, Calif., does) or using giant superconducting magnets to heat levitating plasma for minutes at a time inside a doughnut - shaped chamber (as the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor in France may do when it's completed around 2027).

The team used a new approach to gene sequencing that enabled them to completely reconstruct the virus» previously unknown genome in less than 24 hours — significantly faster than conventional sequencing techniques, which can take days to weeks.

The approach costs more to install than a conventional system, and has never taken off commercially.

When tested in laboratory samples of leukemia cells and in animals with human - like leukemia, the approach caused cancer cells to die much more quickly than with conventional targeted therapies.

Prompted by research published this week showing that the bloodsuckers can store DNA from their meals for several months, the saola search is at the vanguard of an approach to gauging biodiversity that could prove much more efficient than conventional methods.

Another team reported that the LINCS approach of measuring a wide range of cells» responses to drugs was more accurate than conventional drug - potency tests.

In general, the study concludes that while organic farming is more environmentally friendly per unit of land than conventional approaches, it is not better for the environment when assessed in terms of units of output.

After initial successes using nanoformulations to reduce treatment side effects, researchers have started investigating more sophisticated nano - approaches, with the goal of creating treatments that are more effective than corresponding conventional therapies.

The functional medicine approach is different than conventional medicine in several ways.

Current evidence from studies in rodents and humans suggests that IER is capable of promoting weight - loss and / or favourably influencing an array of cardiometabolic health indices, with equal or greater efficacy than conventional continuous ER approaches.

After reading the information and listening to the interviews on the Inner Fire website, we parents immediately knew that Inner Fire's philosophy and understanding of mental emotional suffering, struggles and illness is much more in alignment with our own understanding and thinking, than the conventional psychiatric / psychological paradigm and treatment approach.

We take a proactive approach to your health rather than a reactive (conventional medicine) approach.

Many from both groups still view yoga as strictly a supplement to conventional treatment rather than a primary approach.

It's a smart approach that rewards the audience's intelligence, rather than overwhelming them with conventional exposition, and keeps viewers leaning forward in their seats, searching for clues as to what the Shimmer represents.

That approach is quite powerful, inviting us to think about the story's themes more deeply than we would in a conventional take on this plot.

It's a play on convention by embracing the conventional, almost re-revisionist in its approach by going to the roots of the Western tales rather than reinventing them.

Needless to say, they include a vastly more rigorous curriculum, higher expectations for all students, a knowledge - based rather than a methods - based emphasis in teacher education, and a more thoughtful system of assessment rather than the relatively mindless fill - in - the - blank approach of so many conventional standardized tests.

Flat Stan First Aid ™ have launched a first aid training programme which teaches children basic first aid using a simplistic, interactive approach, which is less daunting for children than conventional first aid methods.

Through its inquiry - based approach, he says, Walden satisfies state content standards in greater depth than a conventional classroom could.

Financial differences aside, longitudinal statistic research uses HCZ as a basis to question whether neighborhood based approaches to educational achievement of low - income students work any better than conventional methods.

Since meeting the fund's goals depends so heavily on accurate assessments of future market movements, a fund manager's decision - making skills may even be more crucial to overall return than if the fund were following a more conventional trading approach.

Concentrating on long - term growth in NAV ought to give OPMIs far greater downside protection than would the conventional approach where the emphasis is on predicting periodic future operating cash flows or earnings (with earnings defined as creating wealth while consuming cash).

Finally, even if you decide that this approach of combining an annuity with conventional investments makes sense, you would still want to consider such prudent steps as shopping around to make sure you're getting a competitive payment, annuitizing gradually rather than all at once, diversifying your annuity money among a few highly rated insurers and limiting the amount you invest with any single insurer to the maximum amount covered by your state's life and health insurance guaranty association.

In their own words, 100 Favorite Places is «Less a conventional guidebook than a charming companion... aimed at both visitors and locals,» that «resists reducing Berlin to its commercial components in favour of a more personal, «less is more» approach.

The Lifx takes a daring approach to smart lighting; rather than mimic a conventional bulb it plays to its strengths.

Samaras never has to choose, and the pastels show him approaching those emotions through a thoroughly conventional medium, one associated more with Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, and Odilon Redon than with darkness.

The innovative floating approach will allow wind farms to be developed in much deeper waters than conventional offshore wind farms, which are usually placed in water depths of up to 50 meters.

«[Howarth et al.'s] analysis is seriously flawed in that they significantly overestimate the fugitive emissions associated with unconventional gas extraction, undervalue the contribution of «green technologies» to reducing those emissions to a level approaching that of conventional gas, base their comparison between gas and coal on heat rather than electricity generation (almost the sole use of coal), and assume a time interval over which to compute the relative climate impact of gas compared to coal that does not capture the contrast between the long residence time of CO2 and the short residence time of methane in the atmosphere.»

The result was a more rapid elimination of leaded gasoline from the marketplace than anyone had anticipated, and at a savings of some $ 250 million per year, compared with a conventional no - trade, command - and - control approach.

But if a team can glue disparate pieces together, a composite solution can be even more resilient than conventional grid approaches.»

«Organic farming approaches for these crops not only use an average of 30 percent less fossil energy but also conserve more water in the soil, induce less erosion, maintain soil quality and conserve more biological resources than conventional farming does,» Pimentel added.

Conventional politics clearly disfavors market - based (pricing) environmental policy approaches that render costs obvious or at least somewhat transparent, despite the fact that the costs of these same policies are actually less than those of alternative approaches.

The structure was designed to consume 85 percent less energy than conventional Malaysian office buildings through an integrated design process approach, responding to the conditions and needs of its specific site.

If combustion of the final products is included, the so - called «Well to Wheels» approach, oil sands extraction, upgrade and use emits 10 to 45 % more greenhouse gases than conventional crude.

This approach also has other huge benefits — it helps to restore the overall health of ecosystems in other ways, and organic agriculture has been shown to be more productive than «conventional» agriculture under the conditions of drought which AGW is already making more common.

Mr. McDonough's approach was not only greener but cheaper, coming in at $ 15 million versus more than triple that sum for a comparably scaled conventional water - management system, according to McDonough's firm.

Apparently, Google is taking a slightly different approach than is conventional with public key encryption, by establishing an authoritative repository of everyone's public keys.

Have a futuristic approach while investing than depending on conventional ways of savings.

Starting at the top, the Logitech Harmony Ultimate takes the conventional approach, providing you with a fully - programmable remote, with set - up via USB through your PC, giving you access to Harmony's database of more than 225,000 products from over 5,000 companies.

Comprehensive sexuality education curricula that emphasize critical thinking about gender and power — the empowerment approach — are far more effective than conventional «gender - blind» programmes at reducing rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and unintended early pregnancy.