Sentences with phrase «is a useful approach»

If it is true, as it seems to be, that one underlying cause of much alcoholism is intra-psychic conflict, then psychotherapy should be a useful approach.

«Our findings suggest that, for some individuals, engagement in cognitively stimulating activities, especially those involving games such as puzzles and cards, might be a useful approach for preserving brain structures and cognitive functions that are vulnerable to Alzheimer's disease,» said Schultz.

Being able to monitor and predict pathogens by routine, noninvasive sampling of the built environment and sequencing to identify the bacteria, rather than waiting for cultures to grow, could be a useful approach for identifying potential hotspots of transmission that are currently unknown.»

Besides potentially upending the textbook model of DNA organization, the team's results suggest that controlling access to chromatin could be a useful approach to preventing, diagnosing and treating diseases such as cancer.

However, it is a useful approach for better understanding blood clotting.

Screening stroke survivors for MSA may be a useful approach to identifying memory deficits that hinder rehabilitation and community participation and contribute to poor outcomes.»

Although in many cases this is a useful approach, this philosophy has also resulted in a multibillion - dollar «disease industry», where costly medical intervention is preferred to preventing the problem in the first place.

Assessing exchangeable zinc pools may be a useful approach to evaluating zinc status and is positively related to dietary zinc intake, daily - absorbed zinc, and excretion of zinc.

Acupuncture Acupuncture can be another useful approach, although in my experience requires a bit more time to achieve results.

A gluten free diet could be a useful approach in reducing GERD symptoms in adult celiac patients >

It relies predominantly on graphical representations, and this is a useful approach since people are primarily visual learners.

When you attend a conference session or read a blog about the latest craze, how do you know if it really is a useful approach or just hot air?

This could be a useful approach — if you fall into the very narrow edge case for which Butterick designed it.

A «stretch» IRA may be a useful approach that can benefit your heirs for generations to come.

Reckon that a simple screensaver with alternating cartoon images might be a useful approach too.

Child welfare legal custody can be a useful approach to permanency when adoption and reunification are not viable.

I think that it really flowed in sequence... understanding how the brain functions and how habits are formed is a useful approach to promoting change.

Not exact matches

This user - behavior approach is particularly useful for protecting against insider threats — attempts at hacking or sabotage from employees or contractors who have regular access to a network.

But MacOS is also so streamlined, clear, and useful that it makes a better candidate for the 2 - in - 1 approach.

How useful is your company's approach for their readers or the people they speak to at events?

Not only are they useful advice if you're a little more low - key socially than the average executive, but they also serve as a powerful reminder of the power of the introverted approach to leadership.

The benefit of this approach is that a generalist has a variety of skills, which can be incredibly useful in the freelancing economy; with a broader skill set, it can be easier to market yourself.

PBS Parents shares a useful approach that Melanie Etemad and her husband, a psychiatrist, developed for their two - year - old: «We'd say today is a «look» day.

The Business Model Canvas looks beyond those charts and is especially useful because it combines a practical and tangible approach in covering the various areas and aspects of planning a business but emphasizes the need to iterate as conditions change.

This approach is more useful than mechanically stating numbers.

A useful approach when looking at opportunities is to look at your strengths and ask yourself whether these open up any opportunities.

Although the investment center approach is extremely useful in evaluating the overall profitability of a company as measured by return on capital deployed, it can be manipulated by managers who know how accounting rules work.

An important and useful element of the thinking at the time was the replacement of the earlier «control theory» approach to policy (i.e. the belief that the central point was to find an appropriate spot on the Phillips curve and to stay there), towards a «game theoretic» view, in which the critical issues related to behaviour — the interaction between the monetary authorities and the public.

As we approach the end of 2015, I thought it would be useful to note some of the most cogent recent developments on which the need, and hope, for a new paradigm -LSB-...]

When that research generates useful results, as it did with our research on breadth momentum reversals, we're eager to fold them into our approach.

For those who take a valuation - based approach to building a portfolio, that's useful information to take into consideration when determining the appropriate price to pay for an ownership stake.

But I digress... what we want to know — and there is a consensus around this among the FX folks I talk to, but having it explicitly stated would certainly be useful and potentially market - moving — is whether these election results nudge the Bank of Canada's «risk management» approach to setting monpol in one direction or another.

Storytelling permeates our lives on multiple levels, but is often overlooked as a useful approach to account - based marketing.

We're in a world where the payments system is evolving quickly and new approaches to managing payments are proliferating, and some of the ideas around bitcoin will no doubt be useful in doing that.

Perhaps the common - sense way to approach this is to accept the possibility that Chilean - style controls (taxes on short - term inflows) may be useful for some countries during the transition, but not too much should be expected of them (see the conclusions on Chile itself, which suggest that the controls managed to lengthen the maturity of the debt, without being able to prevent the exchange rate from appreciating during the phase of capital inflow)(see Edwards (1998)-RRB-.

Although there is some debate as to whether the top - down approach is better than the bottom - up approach, many investors have found the top - down approach useful in determining the most promising sectors in a given market.

His structured approach to investment decisions is an extremely useful framework.

Crane's concept of plot seems to be a useful way to approach the temporal composition of historical events and of their narrative analogues.

While they are thinking about his suggestion of a new, potentially dramatic and useful approach to dining entrances («After you»; «No, after you»; «No, really...») Jesus comes up with a terrible idea.

Reality therapy provides a simple and useful approach for helping almost anyone who is coping ineffectively with crises.

My hope is that it will prove useful to participants in growth groups; to professionals (clergymen, teachers, youth workers, and school counselors,) who lead small groups as one part of their jobs; to counselors and psychotherapists who desire to give stronger emphasis to the growth approach in their groups; and to nonprofessionals who are in training to lead growth groups.

That approach is hostile, in the first place, to the idea of friendship which finds a special complement in a particular person, and still more hostile to the notion of a distinctive complementarity between the sexes, all the more so if it were to lead two people to want an exclusive union between themselves (since the assumption is «everyone belongs (and is useful) to everyone else»).

To me, Wright's approach makes the most sense of 2 Timothy 3:16: «All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.»

In informal counseling many of the approaches of short - term formal counseling are useful — sensitive listening, reflecting feelings, seeking to understand empathetically, giving ego support, summarizing the person's perception of the problem, asking questions, examining alternatives, giving information, and, occasionally, advice.

Both the spiritual healing and the pastoral counseling approaches are useful in a local church's program.

It may be useful to cite two exemplary witnesses to the continuing importance of a critically appreciative approach to the work of Thomas Aquinas.

But she approached her boss as a human being to talk it over anyway, and he approached her as a tool, useful until it's not.

To call such people liberals, as rhetorically useful as it might seem, is simply inaccurate; their approach might be described better by distortion # 3.

you really have to dig thru some sh-t to get to the gems, modern christians who claim the founding fathers on their side should keep this in mind, these men where largely liberal intellectuals with a practical bent and where not the judeo / christian zealots that some try and make them out to be, jeffersons take on jesus is wonderful and it is useful in the modern world where we really need to focus more on the lessons of jesus than THE RULES in the entire bible, as jesus said ABOVE ALL ELSE love neighbor as yourself, jefferson had a great mind and his approach to spiritual matters like this is great

A useful way of approaching the varied structures of human existence is through reflection on the meaning of «I.» The use of the first person singular in some way is probably coterminous with language, but its meaning varies widely.