Sentences with phrase «as an outcome rather»

Most people who have money invested in a range of assets are using asset allocation as an outcome rather than an objective.

As mentioned in «Introduction», the link between interpersonal problems and psychopathology is likely to be bidirectional; as such, interpersonal problems could also be hypothesised as an indicator of psychopathology and be examined as an outcome rather than a mediator.

Would you like to learn to communicate and have acceptance and understanding as an outcome rather than ongoing arguments?

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Especially, as the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services makes its push to value - based, rather than fee - based care, it's likely that telemedicine, which saves costs and improves outcomes, has a role to play, said Lee.

Rather than repeat this approach, both the federal government and state governments should write contracts to ensure that economic incentives focus on reducing recidivism and improving outcomes for the nation's inmates, not just warehousing as many people as possible.

Persons do not first exist and then enter into relations with others; rather, they emerge out of relations with others as outcomes of the contextual self - structuring of immediate experience.

This, of course, was an account of moral character which saw it as a substitute for Christian faith and community, rather than its outcome.

A man becomes an individual «I,» rather than a peculiar mixture of universal forces or principles, only as he inwardly transcends both emotion and reason, accepting responsibility for the outcome of the struggle between them.

In 1977 Robert McNamara, as head of the World Bank, saw in population growth the «gravest issue» short of nuclear war and in a particularly prophetic statement lamented that the decisions that had led to this growth were «not in the exclusive control of a few governments but rather in the literally hundreds of millions of individual parents who will determine the outcome.»

Next time, rather than using short ribs, I'll use beef cubes (my usual substitution), as the final outcome was a little too fatty for my tastes, although it gave great mouth feel to the gravy.

How do we regulate food and farming markets so that they deliver the outcomes of human well - being, ecosystem health and farmer viability as first priorities, rather than shareholder value?

As for his review of how he did last week in his first official tour start in 12 months and just his second since his T10 at the Wyndham Championship, Tiger was rather happy with the outcome.

«There may be certain messages that are more likely to encourage athletes to report concussive symptoms, such as focusing on short - term outcomes (concussions affect one's ability to play well) rather than long - term outcomes (playing with a concussion can cause brain damage).

I purposely decided not to name the district as I'm not trying to embarrass them, but rather explain the forces that lead to this sort of outcome.

Believe Midwifery Services isn't the option with fewer resources for the what - if, but rather the VIP option that offers greater time, greater education, greater staffing, a cohesive and collaborative team, and as evidence by our outcomes, far improved success.

As these positive reinforcement examples show, you can encourage these behaviors through praising the process rather than the outcome, being specific in your reinforcement and offering it right when the situation occurs.

As children have a right to be cared for by both parents the state should be improving the overall chances of this happening, rather than stacking obstacles against this outcome as the current tax system doeAs children have a right to be cared for by both parents the state should be improving the overall chances of this happening, rather than stacking obstacles against this outcome as the current tax system doeas the current tax system does.

Furthermore, it is now clear that all kinds of crying (i.e. fussing, crying and inconsolable crying) is prolonged, that this prolongation occurs only in the first few months, and that inconsolable crying is almost unique to the first few months of life.3, 40 The «unpredictability» of the crying, and of the caregiver's ability or inability to soothe the infant is most likely due to the facts that (1) the infant cry in the first few months is a reflection of the organization of its behavioural states (crying, awake alert, sleeping), rather than an intentional «signal,» 14 (2) that behavioural state changes occur in «steps» rather than due to increases or decreases in arousal7, 41 and (3) infants are resistant to behavioural state change unless they are in a transitional phase in which they are «ready» to change state.7 Finally, there is now good evidence that the proportion of infants that have evidence of organic disease to explain their crying is less than 5 %.8, 42,43 In the absence of other compromise, infants with «colic» have as good an outcome as infants without «colic.»

In addition, much of the data compiled on vaginal delivery looks at «positive outcomes» alone (i.e. a planned vaginal delivery that ends up as a vaginal delivery) rather than «all planned vaginal delivery outcomes» (including those that result in emergency cesareans) and their subsequent mortalities or morbidities.

The research confirms that a father's emotional engagement — not the amount of time fathers spend with children, rather how they interact with them — leads to multiple positive outcomes, and serves as a significant protective factor against high risk behaviors in both girls and boys.

As Randy says, it isn't about making the dads feel good (though that would be a side benefit), but rather improving outcomes for kids because they have the benefit of more involved fathers.

«Push polls» are actually political telemarketing — telephone calls disguised as research that aim to persuade large numbers of voters and affect election outcomes, rather than measure opinions.

I agree that the redistributive settlement needs to be embedded within society's concept of how things work rather than seen as after - the - fact «meddling» in outcomes, but I think this is incompatible with a government that very clearly is meddling in all kinds of things, as New Labour did.

As such, this book argues that much of the scholarly literature in the electoral domain has the wrong object in view in focusing on the outcomes of this work, rather than the processes that create information environments.

They have also operated a system that is neither fair nor justifiable and rather than admit this to all those they have wrongly taken money from, they continue to put as many obstacles in the way of a fair outcome to this sorry affair as they can think of.

Rather, we felt our charge was to recommend a set of tangible actions the Governor and Legislature could undertake to improve the current system of public education in New York so as to produce better outcomes for our children.»

Votes for the Greens, Ukip and the BNP may shape the outcomes in perhaps hundreds of seats as well, though they would have to benefit the Lib Dems disproportionately in order to boost nottle numbers rather than those of the two main parties.

Rather, it is likely to lead to the same outcome as 2015.

«Rather than repeatedly talking down our party, and refusing to accept the outcome of this contest, Owen Smith should reflect on his use of such a divisive approach for the rest of this contest as Labour members won't appreciate his campaign's «Project Fear» or «Project Smear» tactics.

Despite considerable scholarship about purposeful violations of civil and political rights during conflict, there is a general tendency to view damage to cultural heritage as an unfortunate collateral outcome, rather than as a deliberate tactic.

Strengths of this study, Dr. Li noted, included that researchers used an objective measuring device and studied a short - term outcome (miscarriage) rather than one that will occur years or decades later, such as cancer or autoimmune diseases.

Contrary to current beliefs viewing gang structure as hierarchical and clan recruiting processes as rigorous, Red Gang members described their gang structure as a loose social network into which individuals drifted through friendships with current associates; similarly, gang leadership was said to be the result of personal dexterity — individuals ascended to command status because of their personal traits — rather than the outcome of a selective system imposed from above.

It may seem surprising to people, but you can look at something like Mars, which has a very thin atmosphere, and you can look at something like Venus which we tend to think of as sort of having this rather heavy, clouded atmosphere, which [is] hellishly warm because of runaway greenhouse effect, and on both of those planets you are seeing this phenomenon of the atmosphere leaking away, is actually what directly has led to those very different outcomes for those planets; the specifics of what happened as the atmosphere started to go in each case [made] all the difference.

«Our study shows that to promote moral behavior such as honesty, emphasizing the positive outcomes of honesty rather than the negative consequences of dishonesty is the key,» adds Lee.

«Our critical review on the limited existing treatment mechanism studies,» explained co-author Dr. Jessica Black, «found that «common» processes, such as positive social support, rather than a particular treatment modality, account for positive adolescent substance use outcomes.»

«This study suggests that the path to excellence in readmission is a result of an approach that focuses on the patient as a whole rather than on what caused them to be admitted,» said senior author and director of the Yale Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation Harlan Krumholz, M.D., the Harold H. Hines, Jr..

As other experts have also repeatedly warned, the need to win grants and tenure encourages researchers to pursue conservative projects that are likely to produce positive results and publications, rather than the risky ones that may result either in striking scientific advances — or in unsuccessful outcomes that journals are unlikely to publish.

Some are hard cases, the necessary outcome of any innovative system for distributing authorship: Should the system be abrogated when hard cases arise, such as the need of a young student to receive publication credit if he or she leaves the lab at the M.A. level, rather than staying on for dissertation work?

Imagining a future self that is realistic, rather than fantastic, is similarly more likely to lead to contentment, as is aiming for outcomes that are consistent with one another and with one's own values.

The study is investigator led and has therefore focused on clinical need, targeting patients with progressive multiple sclerosis in whom most disability is incurred... The study also reports a predominant effect on neurodegenerative rather than inflammatory outcomes, suggesting a novel mechanism of action that might be suitable as combination treatment with immunomodulatory treatments... Further phase 3 studies to measure the effect of simvastatin on sustained disability, particularly in patients with non-relapsing secondary progressive and primary progressive multiple sclerosis, are clearly needed, but this trial represents a promising point from which to develop trials of progressive disease.»

This is an important result as better recovery outcomes can allow people to get on with their lives rather than having their lives controlled by their experience of bipolar disorder.

The team found some differences in type of NSAID and outcome, which they attribute to different patterns of use, such as dose or duration, rather than due to the type of NSAID.

In addition, this new program focuses more on morbidity as a measure of surgical outcomes, rather than mortality, which Dr. Moss said better encompasses the specific nature of pediatric surgery.

Unlike the common practice with other mathematical variables, a random variable can not be assigned a value; a random variable does not describe the actual outcome of a particular experiment, but rather describes the possible, as - yet - undetermined outcomes in terms of real numbers.

«We're hoping to impress upon the scientific community the notion that for those of us who might be interested in predicting an outcome of interest, possibly with rather complex or high dimensional data, we might gain by reconsidering the question as one of how to search for highly predictive variables (or variable sets) and using statistics that measure predictivity to help us identify those variables to then predict well,» Lo said.

This method, which has been around for years and is used in other computer game programs, essentially allows the system to use statistics as a shortcut to determine the best move, rather than playing out each and every possible outcome of a given move (which in Go would take forever).

The outcomes of these studies were often reported as diagnostic accuracy estimates rather than patient important outcomes such as mortality or quality of life.

I think we all agree that we over treat prostate cancer in this country compared to what you see in Europe with similar outcomes and so but I think this is where the human or the Cancer Genome Project or at least better biomarkers for looking at mutations that we already know occur in these diseases I think hopefully within the next few years every single patient who is diagnosed with prostate cancer those biopsies will be characterized and then the patients followed, hopefully watchful waiting and we'll ultimately get a correlation between what mutational events predict a rather dormant disease as opposed to a very aggressive disease.

My hope is that no matter the outcome of further research and study about fermented cod liver oil, the real food community will take this as a lesson in the importance of verifying the quality of supplements and use this as an opportunity to improve the real food movement, rather than to divide the community.

undertaken, not to discover some underlying truth, but rather designed to obtain a predetermined and biased outcome as part of a marketing effort.