Sentences with phrase «less about the method»

Critics have long contended that KIPP's success with minority and low - income children is less about its methods than about skimming the best students with the most motivated parents.

Admittedly, these visions have always been more about exciting destinations, and less about the method of getting there.

Not exact matches

And Valeant's round - about method of funding research, if that's what it's actually doing, seems a lot less cost effective, with all of the bankers and lawyers and hedge fund managers taking chunks of deals than if drug companies directly devoted a portion of their sales toward finding new drugs.

Not the RCC's biggest fan, but to their credit, studies (albeit limited studies) have given Natural Family Planning (a RCC - approved method of contraceptive) is about 99 % effective - just as good as the Pill or a condom, and is far less expensive.

With less panache, but with equal force and even further empirical social science evidence, her method resembles Roland Barthes» Mythologies in its outlines of the deep structure of the contemporary beliefs and practices surrounding our most deeply held moral codes about human sexual desire — or should I say eros.

With the change of scientific vision in the present century there has come about a very radical change in the method of science, its being less a description of phenomena and the formulation of universal laws, and more a statistical formulation of probabilities and a venture in determining which of the many probabilities might be taken to be true to fact in this situation.

This declaration limits itself, as given its assumptions and method of proceeding it was inevitable that it should, to claims of such vagueness and generality that it would be hard for anyone to disagree about them, but equally hard for anyone to get excited about them — much less to structure his life around them or be prepared to die for them.

In the summer of 1986, when the Greenwich Village bookstores were crowded with Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City — a novel whose method of demonstrating the bankruptcy of our culture, one critic said, is to chronicle its parties — and Bret Easton Ellis's Less than Zero and Don DeLillo's White Noise, all in shiny paperback covers, I remembered a New York Times review that called Richard Ford's The Sportswriter a novel about a good man.

This method seemed easier to me, and less worry about the sugar in particular.

These groups were less concerned about market fluctuations and more concerned with issues of social equity, environmental health and having fun, which meant they unwittingly epitomised the goals of political ecology, by challenging the dominant agricultural methods of production and marketing.

Pick your jaw off the ground (you'll need it for drooling over the recipe later), I'm here to share the news that a beef hamburger now, then and again is actually good for you — lean ground beef is an excellent source of protein, iron, b vitamins, zinc with only about 150 calories and less than 10g fat (depending on cut and cooking method) per 3 - ounce serving.

Using goats also will cost less than $ 5,000, compared with about $ 10,000 if the district used more traditional eradication methods, officials said.

Much of the literature published about baby led solids suggests that the associated choking risk is actually LESS than with the traditional method of spoon feeding.

This may sound counter-intuitive, but women who used epidural pain relief have less positive feelings about their birth experience than women who use no medical pain relief.7, 8 No matter what methods of pain relief a woman used, low levels of pain have not been found to be associated with high levels of enjoyment during labor.9 So what matters for a good birth experience?

Also, my baby's sleep habits changed about 3 months, and the methods we had previously been using to get him to sleep started working less well anyway.

It's basically a cry it out method but they refer to it as a least cry method because it only takes about a week and the crying gets less and less everyday.

If you're really serious about avoiding pain medication, you must learn about and become comfortable with other coping methods, like the rebozo (a type of large cloth traditionally used in Mexican culture), visualization, and even lesser - known options like sterile water injections.

Before people will reform something as momentous as a political election, Urken says, they need to learn about voting methods in less formal situations.

Altering the composition of tofu whey via biotransformation methods converts its strong beany odour into a fruity, sweet flavour, and extends the shelf life of tofu whey from less than one day to about four months.

Others worry that news about the vaccine might lead some to be less vigilant about more proven methods of prevention, such as using condoms.

The average number of eggs for genetically modified mice (knockout mice) obtained using previous methods of superovulation induction is about 20 but in reality the number is often much smaller, about 10 or less.

Wu and Longaker, both clinical practitioners, are always looking for methods that will present «one less hurdle to worry about,» Longaker says.

Chuang said physicians should be aware that overweight and obese women may be concerned about weight gain when choosing contraception, but that should be an opportunity to try to steer them toward the most effective methods — LARCS — and away from the less effective non-prescription methods.

Talk to your doctor about other screening methods — including a virtual colonoscopy, sigmoidoscopy, or double - contrast barium enema, which can be less invasive and don't involve sedation.

This method is counter-intuitive, and it turns more or less everything you've previously learned about motivation on its head.

We have also included posts about the history of the interval methods and how it has evolved over the last two decades and has caught the imagination of people with less time and wanting to get the maximum benefits from their cardio workouts.

One study found that people felt about 4o percent less pain, and were able to stand pain for about 45 percent longer, when they used reflexology as a method of pain relief, reports the Journal of Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice.

BTW — I do love all the chalk paint projects I'm seeing and wanted to give it a try but the more I read about it, the more I'm thinking it is less expensive and easier to stick with my old method??

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Stevens provides less detailed information about the methods used by the inclusives.

Random assignment is not needed because there are other less irritating methods for generating knowledge about cause and effect.

[20] But generally we know very little about how the use of the weighting approach really affects teaching and learning, and we know even less about the other methods.

There is much less research about the best methods and time requirements for teaching other subjects beyond reading and math.

About three quarters of the evaluated programs require subject - specific methods courses, and less than half of those require student teaching in connection with that course work.

We disagree less about the value of a particular unstudied instructional method than we do on the importance of maximizing the payoff from every minute of instruction — particularly for kids who won't largely learn to read at home.

Another value of stock market valuation which is less commonly used than many of the above methods are the Tobins Q. Tobins Q is currently about.86.

This produces about the same annual distributions as the amortization method, but just a little less.

Dog training is less about dogs and more about people, training dogs is simple, demonstrating to others the best methods to employ for the required results is not quite so straightforward as few attendees have dog training as their sole agenda when they come to classes.

«While millennials are more open - minded than other age groups about new developments — like the sharing economy and future travel methods — they also spend less and take fewer vacation days.

I could have done with about 25 % less walking, even though I know it was used as a method of delivering the story to the player.

It suggests another way to look at this artist's protracted project: less about design and industrial methods, more about materiality and equilibrium.

JF We discussed Samuel Beckett earlier; I am thinking about your paintings in relation to Beckett's method (in the bulk of his mature work) of writing in French and translating his text into English afterward, so that his language was less precious or artistic, more directly functional.

Third, another core conclusion of the new study is largely being lost in the partisan and, to a lesser extent, scholarly, debates about its methods and quality.

In addition, even if external agendas do not bias researchers» decisions about what to publish and what to cite, the level of quality and traceability of data, methods, and code that maximizes community discovery rates is generally less than the one that maximizes the policy usefulness of research.

Why aren't more mainstream climatologists admitting that the certainty about climate change is much less than the public and policymakers were led to believe, and why aren't more of the pathetic cowards willing to admit the travesties that some of their colleagues took with the scientific method?

CWON 1 — but if the objective is to reduce CO2 it can't be about tax, because you actually end up collecting less tax by that method.

They find about 0.25 °C less Arctic warming during the past decade than in the GISS analysis, a difference that they attribute to our method of interpolating and extrapolating data, especially into the Arctic Ocean regions where no station data are available.

For the entire Northern Hemisphere, there is evidence of an increase in both storm frequency and intensity during the cold season since 1950,1 with storm tracks having shifted slightly towards the poles.2, 3 Extremely heavy snowstorms increased in number during the last century in northern and eastern parts of the United States, but have been less frequent since 2000.11,15 Total seasonal snowfall has generally decreased in southern and some western areas, 16 increased in the northern Great Plains and Great Lakes region, 16,17 and not changed in other areas, such as the Sierra Nevada, although snow is melting earlier in the year and more precipitation is falling as rain versus snow.18 Very snowy winters have generally been decreasing in frequency in most regions over the last 10 to 20 years, although the Northeast has been seeing a normal number of such winters.19 Heavier - than - normal snowfalls recently observed in the Midwest and Northeast U.S. in some years, with little snow in other years, are consistent with indications of increased blocking (a large scale pressure pattern with little or no movement) of the wintertime circulation of the Northern Hemisphere.5 However, conclusions about trends in blocking have been found to depend on the method of analysis, 6 so the assessment and attribution of trends in blocking remains an active research area.

The key to their method are tiny metallic particles of only about one - quarter of a nanometre in size or less than the size of ten atoms.

If that is your view then you have missed the point entirely, pricing carbon is not about people going without or even dramatically changing behaviour, it's about shifting production methods to supply close substitutes or even identical products but in a less carbon intensive fashion.