Sentences with phrase «rather than theories»

All are independent of universities, and they share an emphasis on the mechanics of lesson delivery and classroom management rather than theories of education, research or subject - matter expertise.

I developed the formulas during my years of personal consultations, so the formulas have been tested and proven and are purely based on experience, rather than theories and book prescribing.

Further and with regard to emotion rather than theory, there is reason to wonder whether the empirical approach, even when it gives sustained attention to particular histories, has provided a definition of a common culture that is socially persuasive.

«So rather than a theory based approach which may make judgements that don't reflect the lived experience of extreme sports participants, we took a phenomenological approach to ensure we went in with an open mind,» he said.

Bruckstein's theorem should be seen as a contribution to the mathematics of pursuit, motivated by ant trails, rather than a theory of ant behaviour.

After graduating, she hopes to continue working in computer science, focusing on programming and practical applications rather than theory.

Most of the possible approaches may or may not work well, because of the replication advantage that damaged mitochondria have over normal mitochondria, and are still to be tested in practice rather than theory or demonstration: upregulation of existing repair mechanisms; delivery of extra functional mitochondrial DNA or whole mitochondria; and so forth.

The platform is open to course developers, business trainers, and teachers who are now able to create unique educational products aimed at the development of skills, as well as provide simulation based training, which is proven to add to learning retention based on experience rather than theory.

The institute is designed to emphasize practice rather than theory and will provide differentiated instruction based on participants» interests, needs, roles, and prior knowledge.

We have to use our own experiences to see what actually works rather than theory.

But I believe the difference is mostly because I've been working with genuine facts from weather which has actually happened, and been recorded, rather than some theory which remains to be proven / disproven.

Climate science is the only science of which I'm aware (and my graduate training is in atmospheric science) where the observed data are consistently altered to conform to the theory, rather than the theory revised to conform to actual temperature observations and data.

The ethos of this site is that the anthropogenic CO2 theory is a faith to be spread rather than a theory to be tested.

rather than a theory backed by robust scientific body of evidence.

Since you like real numbers rather than theory lets use the SURFRAD network, which everyone can look at.

While for children, it may refer to the process where they are exposed to real life examples rather than the theory, it may differ in context to the training imparted for field activities such as trekking, hiking, etc..

Compared to engineering, engineering technology is more focused towards the application of theoretical knowledge rather than the theory itself.

Becker and Kaplan (7) have proposed a theory of adolescent sexual aggression that might be better described as a framework for proposed risk factors rather than a theory.

Not exact matches

In theory, it would actually restore hearing rather than just amplify sounds.

«Its theory seems to be: Let's get lots of people to push for all sorts of things and the world will get better, it's kind of a shot gun approach rather than a targeted one.

He's talks basketball, sure, but he's also a management guru who appeals to people who would rather read about Scottie Pippen than MBA theory.

A major question is how plausible its economists» estimates are on key parts of its theory: how many of company A's customers would drop their cable subscription without Turner's networks, how many would switch to DirectTV (rather than just cutting the cord), and how profitable would the new customers be.

Rather than leading an automated race to the bottom, Boomerang's tools push retailers into the realm of game theory and psychology — anticipating what competitors» responses to their moves will be, and how shoppers will perceive them.

Their Game Design degree, like many other schools that offer such a degree, focuses on visual communication and game design theories, rather than the culture and businesses behind gaming environments.

Valdis Krebs of Orgnet explains that «Schools are still stuck on teaching 20th century math for building things rather than 21st century math for understanding things» and suggests that curriculums focus less on the mathematics of engineering (e.g. algebra and calculus) and more on the mathematics of patterns (e.g. set theory, graph theory, etc.).

Many technology companies like Facebook (fb) and Google have similar programs under the theory that it's better to be hacked by a trusted party as a preventative measure rather than being unknowingly breached by criminals.

You can bet that Gen Y would much rather have a professional job linked to their major than settle for a job at the mall that, in theory, a teenager could do.

In theory, a value - added tax should apply to the value added in building a house rather than to its gross value, which also includes the land value.

The theory was that a miner of the network with more resources could publish many more transactions than a competing small miner could handle and therefore the network would tend towards few large miners rather than many small miners.

Clearly 1500 > 500, he wasn't picking shares from his benchmark's universe, and if I were a betting man I'd bet that much of his outperformance can be explained by portfolio theory rather than stockpicking.

Here's a theory: maybe business productivity is focused too much on finding the perfect employees rather than just avoiding the really bad ones.

From the perspective of secular stagnation theory, much of what people worry about in monetary policy is endogenous rather than exogenous — such as zero rates, conditions that give rise to negative long - term rates, decisions to expand balance sheets.

Rather than explaining that theory let's just «go to the charts.»

In his famous book, «The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money,» Keynes writes, «a large proportion of our positive activities depend on spontaneous optimism rather than on a mathematical expectation, whether moral or hedonistic or economic... if the animal spirits are dimmed and the spontaneous optimism falters, leaving us to depend on nothing but a mathematical expectation, enterprise will fade and die; though fears of loss may have a basis no more reasonable than hopes of profit had before.»

They will tell you Galileo was never arrested, tried, and imprisonedf for verifying earlier theories that the earth revolved around the sun rather than, as religion claimed, being the center of the universe itself.

The best way to succeed, I would contend, is to move back and forth between the worlds of theistic natural law theory and secular moral theory, rather than trying to occupy a supposedly neutral ground between the two.

-LRB-... Still not sure how the Big Bang «THEORY» even became a theory, other than somebody desperately trying to find an alternative to creation, but it should NEVER be taught as a fact, but rather as a THTHEORY» even became a theory, other than somebody desperately trying to find an alternative to creation, but it should NEVER be taught as a fact, but rather as a THtheory, other than somebody desperately trying to find an alternative to creation, but it should NEVER be taught as a fact, but rather as a THEORYTHEORY).

That: the cross of Jesus is something that changes humanity's view of the Divine rather than (as the older substitutionary theories go) changing the Divine's view about humanity.

We should focus on helping one another in this life rather than waste our time on the theories of a possible after life.

He associated «natural law» with some high flown «theory,» rather than finding it in a discipline of reasoned judgment, anchored in those «laws of reason.»

If just - war theory is in poor repute today it is because it has been pressed into service to justify war rather than to prevent or restrain it; rather than being used to advance the cause of peace or justice, the theory has often provided a quickly accessible patina of moral justifiability to disguise aggression and expansionist policy.

There are various theories that have been postulated, such as evolution (whereby there is no unanimity even among evolutionist and is often stated as a fact rather than a speculative theory).

One could appeal to the dominant assumption of historians that, despite constructionist theories to the contrary, 8 they are engaged in discovering and reconstructing aspects of what occurred rather than in constructing a past or bringing it into being.

The challenge facing the church is to discard the unproven scientific theories of the 1980's and 1990's; to understand the scientific evidence that shows non-reverable sexual orientations; and to give the gay believer in Christ mercy to be married for life to the same sex spouse (rather than to continue to insist on the sacrifice of celibacy).

If, as some persons maintain, Christianity was a total transformation of the message of Jesus — a doctrine about Jesus rather than Jesus» own teaching — then it is of paramount importance to see how and why this transformation took place, or rather, first of all, whether the theory of transformation is true.

«We ought in humble submission to accept the real scriptures that god has provided us as they are, rather than ungratefully and stubbornly forcing scripture to be something that it is not because of a theory we hold about what it must and should be.

They tend to try to make the events in the real world fit their theories rather than studying those events with true open - mindedness.

It's why we walk away from a show like Westworld concerned with and moved by logos — «theories» — rather than ethos and pathos.

too true; you're right, we are holistic people in a holistic world living holistic lives and political theory, religion, ethics, behavior, psychology, these and many others are all so inextricably intertwined with each other that it may be better to think of them as different views of the same object rather than distinct objects that are inter-related (using «object» here, of course, metaphorically)

For example, Pannenberg insists that we take as our starting point the three persons who are implicated in Christian revelation and expounded in the early creeds, rather than beginning with a single essence or any theory of the unity of God.