Sentences with phrase «effects of alternative approaches»

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But if it proved safe, the magnet - directed approach could provide a useful new alternative for regional anesthesia — delivering high concentrations of local anesthetics directly to the desired area, without increasing toxic effects.

A team led by Ricardo Decca of Indiana University — Purdue University has developed an alternative approach that would cancel out the Casimir effect and thus measure the gravitational interaction directly.

This new approach offers a safer alternative to metal complexes, such as gadolinium that are commonly used to enhance MRI images but can have side effects in kidney patients and may build - up in the tissues of individuals needing multiple MRIs.

Zhao added that this stem cell - targeting approach can provide an alternative to many forms of chemotherapy, which has a number of bad side effects.

Dr. Collin's consultation seeks to «integrate» conventional medical treatment with «alternative» therapies optimizing the health outcome using both approaches and minimizing adverse effects of drugs.

Because the medications that reduce the pain of arthritis also can have serious side effects, many people are looking into alternative, natural approaches to arthritis.

Commonly used herbs and other alternative therapies, less likely to have the side effects of conventional approaches for type 2 diabetes, are reviewed.

The researchers» approach to measuring the causal effect of competition between private and state schools uses the fact that the amount of competition in education today has in large part been influenced by the Catholic church's efforts in the nineteenth century to construct an alternative school system wherever the state religion was not Catholic.

To argue that she has been even moderately successful with her approach, we would have to ignore the legitimate concerns of local and national charter reformers who know the city well, and ignore the possibility that Detroit charters are taking advantage of loose oversight by cherry - picking students, and ignore the very low test score growth in Detroit compared with other cities on the urban NAEP, and ignore the policy alternatives that seem to work better (for example, closing low - performing charter schools), and ignore the very low scores to which Detroit charters are being compared, and ignore the negative effects of virtual schools, and ignore the negative effects of the only statewide voucher programs that provide the best comparisons with DeVos's national agenda.

Examples may include systems science approaches (e.g., computational modeling and simulation, network analysis, and engineering control methods) to conceptualize prevention at the micro - or macro-levels of analyses; alternative intervention designs for when randomization is not possible; new methods for optimization of interventions; adaptive interventions and SMART designs; and innovative analytic approaches including time varying effect models, and models for incorporating intensive longitudinal data and / or real time data capture in prevention science research.

His best known works include: reviews of the research on long - term effects; benefit - cost analyses of the Perry Preschool and Abecedarian programs; randomized trials comparing alternative approaches to educating children including length of day, monolingual versus dual - language immersion, the Tools of the Mind curriculum; and, the series of State Preschool Yearbooks providing annual state - by - state analyses of progress in public pre-K.

Even «alternative» educators need to consider whether their approach is overly «child - centered» in a troubled world, because, they assert, being neutral or indifferent to the moral condition of the world into which we are educating children ultimately amounts to an endorsement of the transmission model; it is to say, in effect, that learning is an objective process and that the purpose of education is to transmit «knowledge» into young minds, even if the form of transmission doesn't look as harsh or artificial as it does in conventional schooling.

Some studies in both Massachusetts and New York City have found that a «No Excuses» educational approach — characterized by mandated intensive tutoring, longer instruction times, frequent teacher feedback, strict disciplinary policies, and high expectations for students — is a common feature among charter schools with the biggest positive effects (however, the most effective of these schools are located in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods, making it difficult to disentangle whether this is due to the No Excuses approach or sub-par public school alternatives).

Some of these groups create an extreme confirmation bias effect around each other and really refuse to listen or acknowledge that alternative approaches might be beneficial.

Alternative, more indirect, but not for that reason ultimately not effective approaches must be developed, including «demonstration» projects which show that people working together an have a positive effect on certain contributors to warming, including black soot produced by millions of stoves that use dung for fuel.

Probabilistic approaches are rare, with the exception being the effects of uncertainty in alternative representations of land - use change for hydrological variables (Eckhardt et al., 2003).

This has had the effect of obscuring alternative approaches.

Executive Order 12866 directs agencies to assess all costs and benefits of available regulatory alternatives and, when regulation is necessary, to select regulatory approaches that maximize net benefits (including potential economic, environmental, public health and safety effects; distributive impacts; and equity).

In Martin v Martin, Ormrod LJ cautioned against this free - wheeling approach to judicial notice: `... whenever it is to be argued that the wife could find alternative accommodation for herself out of her share of the equity, whatever that may be... there should be evidence put before the court to that effect.

A body - oriented approach is called for that can facilitate alternative ways of perceiving reality, address non-verbal symptoms and resolve the implicit effects of these wounds.

Ultimately, an environmentally mediated causal effect of PAE on childhood externalizing behaviors — a causal inference — would be supported if the relation remained robust to the measured covariates and quasi-experimental methods because these approaches account for many of the alternative explanations for the association between PAE and externalizing problems.