Sentences with phrase «provide useful models»

He defines theology as reflection on the faith of the people of God — a second - order activity that provides useful models rather than the scientific deduction of intellectual truth from a mother lode of truth in scripture.

Only the experience of East and West Germany provides a useful model of reunification, though it is fraught with ambiguities.

Whales and dolphins could provide a useful model for research into such impacts, largely because their sounds are relatively easy to study: They are among the loudest noises any animal has ever made, reaching as much as 188 decibels in the blue whale.

Animals provide a useful model for diseases found in both humans and other animals.

The political strategy adopted by Uber provides a useful model for ed reformers.

It is time to try a different funding approach, and Pell Grants, the college scholarships offered to low - income students, provide a useful model.

The initiative provides a useful model for how researchers and administrators can work together to design, test, and refine low - stakes measures of student mindsets, using them to provide struggling schools with additional resources instead of sanctions.

Pounder et al. test a model of the influence of principals, teachers, parents, and secretaries on a number of mediating variables, as well as a range of school outcomes, providing a useful model for our approach a decade later.

His point is that whether it's applicable or not the 6 D's framework «provides a useful model for imagining the kinds of changes that could take place in our industry...»

This study looked at whether there is a need for an easily accessible, population - based, LI service for anxiety / depression in Australia; whether the UK IAPT program provides a useful model; what current Australian research initiatives could contribute to an Australian - adapted IAPT (AusIAPT) model; and what adaptations might be needed for an Australian healthcare context.

The Committee considered that the Canadian Aboriginal Healing Foundation may provide a useful model for the establishment of that Fund.

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Neuroscience can provide useful insights — such as why economists believe and act on the basis of narrow and sometimes flawed models.»

While models that attempt to forecast potential economic impacts provide useful insights regarding potential risks when exploring policy choices, the Commission is of the view that it must also consider the potential upsides of greater choice, including the retention of subscribers in the system, as well as the risks associated with maintaining the status quo in a context of increased demand for more choice.

Johnson plans to tinker with his model before the 2012 Summer Games, but insists that it provides a useful gauge of countries» returns on their Olympic investments.

Management believes that these metrics reflect the organic, core operating performance of the company, and therefore are useful to analysts and investors in providing supplemental information that helps them understand, model and forecast the evolution of our operating business.

Academic models provide useful insight, but they are incomplete.

Factors in the struggle of a people to exist as a corporate body are set forth in the four - function paradigm of Talcott Parsons.10 Although the adequacy of his analysis is challenged by other theories, especially those focused upon social change, 11 Parsons's model provides a useful delineation of the actions implicated in a group's toil to perpetuate itself.

The history of science provides many examples of this combination of analogy and innovation in the creation of models which were useful in generating theories.4 The «Bohr model» of the atom, in which «planetary» electrons revolve in orbits around a central nucleus, resembles the solar system in certain of its dynamical properties; but the key assumption of quantum jumps between orbits had no classical parallel at all.

It's a good idea to provide a few different images, so as well as a lifestyle shot or a modelling shot, it's useful to have a photograph of the product on a white background and a close - up detail shot too.

Models provide a kind of map for thinking about the overall direction of political change, which is undeniably useful, but these theories require considerable fleshing out in terms of their understanding of social life.

Although useful for making short - term predictions, these models provide little insight into how the higher education system evolves in response to external changes.

The objective of these models would not be to provide a precise forecast of the future (an impossible task), but rather to capture enough of the behavior of the educational system to make useful qualitative predictions.

Modelling provides a useful and cost - effective alternative and can be used to select promising programs for further field study.»

«Nevertheless,» they state, «the model provides a useful perspective on how vaccine properties and strategic choices affect the relative size and severity of projected epidemics,» and conclude that, «a vaccine like the Sanofi - Pasteur candidate can be an effective tool for reducing the dengue burden, although a vaccine with waning efficacy would require a booster program.»

The disease progressed very gradually, just as it does in humans, suggesting that the hamsters could provide a useful animal model system.

The researchers hope their new cell lines will be a useful resource for studying the cellular and molecular intricacies of Huntington's further, and suggest they may provide a model for examining other diseases of the brain that are specific to humans.

Dr. Zhu said he believes the study provides the scientific community with an important animal model to further investigate ARID1B's role in human brain disorders and will be a useful tool for therapeutic testing of potential treatments for autism, intellectual disability, and Coffin - Siris syndrome.

But Klotzbach and other experts say the models, and seasonal forecasts, still provide useful insight into something as unpredictable as extreme weather even if they do not always pan out.

The authors conclude: «In the absence of multi-intervention randomized clinical or observational trials, a mathematical HIV epidemic model provides useful insights about the aggregate benefit of implementing a portfolio of biomedical, diagnostic and treatment programs.

Their experiments provide clues about the neural circuits and signaling pathways involved in compulsive behavior and may provide a useful animal model for studying OCD and evaluating treatments.

As discussed below, this provides new insight into pigment biosynthesis in the Platyhelminthes (flatworms) and establishes planarians as a useful animal model for porphyria research.

«The fossil record is not just to provide the decorations you hang on the tree afterwards — it gives you useful information to constrain genetic models about evolution,» says Graham Budd at the University of Uppsala, Sweden.

The research provides a useful, much - needed model to study the earliest steps of human reproduction.

The Adachi model «provides a useful stylized description of user behavior on the dating site.»

States will also benefit from supporting Peer Assistance and Review models that identify teachers who are struggling, provide them with intensive, expert assistance from mentor teachers in their content areas, and make a timely judgment about continued employment that is grounded in useful evidence, intensive support, and due process.

Our experience is that the Teaching School model provides a potentially useful framework within which practitioner research can be successfully developed.

Second, proportional growth measures provide useful system - wide instructional signals and allow underperforming schools to seek out high - performing model schools working in similar educational contexts.

While games do not fit into the current model of assessment for accountability, they do offer the opportunity to engage and attract learners while providing information useful for making immediate on - the - ground adjustments to teaching and learning plans.

The success of Blackstone Valley Prep Mayoral Academy, a regional charter school model in Rhode Island, provides a useful example.

It does so in three ways: providing timely, useful information to policymakers; advancing awareness among the larger public on complex education issues; and highlighting effective models and strategies intended to improve student outcomes.

TXCC will support TEA in gathering the most effective and useful approaches to instructional leadership by convening stakeholders and investigating the efficacy of approaches being used across all five contractors, identifying key components and variables, and providing consulting services to help the agency plan and develop a new state model of instructional leadership for ESC implementation.

We provide useful vehicle reviews for all 2018 and 2019 Nissan models for sale at our Phoenix dealership, so you can see what features and powertrains are included on each.

My goal is to build a Bayesian multilevel model that can provide useful information for specific writers.

Having some sense of serial correlations by quintile, however, provides useful perspective for investors building company models.

The More Features section includes a useful Portfolio modelling tool along with a «Sounding board», which will send your account information and some responses to a few questions about investment goals to a Scotiabank representative who will provide some guidance for future moves.

These criteria provide useful metrics for us to compare different alpha - forecasting models.

As a «natural» model of Chiari malformation, these dogs can provide useful information

Each website provides details information of tourism and entertainment facilities as well as other useful information with a map availability model allowing customers to easily select the right rate and location.

This was the first acquisition completed by Sumo Digital and has provided a useful template for future acquisitions which complement Sumo Digital's proven organic growth model.

However, the agreement provides a useful constraint on the models parameter - space, so this at least gives us a consistent explanation of the response to the applied perturbation.