Sentences with phrase «used as objective»

All told, this research points to the need for additional studies that examine how yoga may influence depression and whether alterations of biomarkers such as HRV can be used as an objective, physiological measure of a yoga intervention's success in reducing depressive symptoms.

They can also be used as objective markers to show progression once treatment and rehabilitation have been initiated.

The goal of this study is to identify a potential biomarker or panel of biomarkers that can be used as objective measures of SMA disease severity.

Though the study was a small one, confirmation of the concept that PET scanning could be used as an objective test for CFS / ME could lead to better diagnosis and ultimately to the development of new therapies to provide relief to the many people around the world afflicted by this condition.

We also use it as an objective assessment of our program... it shows us what the student knows and what we need to focus more attention on.

Not exact matches

Forward - looking statements generally can be identified by the use of forward - looking terminology such as «aim,» «anticipate,» «believe,» «could,» «continue,» «estimate,» «expect,» «goal,» «forecast,» «intend,» «may,» «might,» «objective,» «outlook,» «plan,» «predict,» «project,» «should,» «target,» «will,» «would,» and other similar words, or phrases, or the negative thereof, unless the context requires otherwise.

Depending on the scope and purpose of the research, happiness is often measured using objective indicators (data on crime, income, civic engagement and health) and subjective methods, such as asking people how frequently they experience positive and negative emotions.

This argument assumes that people will believe an organization is objective and unbiased so long as it uses words like «false» or «inaccurate» or «unsupported,» rather than the word «lie.»

But in other cases, it is more illuminating to think of which legal protections are necessary to protect the rights of persons who make use of the corporation as a way to carry out their own objectives.

With small teams working remotely, he says, one must be extremely clear about objectives and roles, and frequently verify that everyone is clear on such things as who is managing a project and what criteria are used to tell when a project is finished.

«Use as many objective measures as possible.

In this book, the authors successfully use fun as a practical tool, not an objective.

«But if there was another objective — such as paralyzing the ability to launch chemical weapons or deterring Assad from using it again — it's doubtful any of these objectives have been met.»

They can be used in conjunction with both traditional index and active funds as a tool to help achieve your client's investing objectives.

For example, a recent study by Lee, the KAIST professor, found that people who turn to their smartphones for «mood adjustment purposes,» such as to relieve boredom, stress or depression, may form a habit of using their phones for those objectives, which can lead to addictive behaviors.

Forward - looking statements can be identified by the use of the future tense or other forward - looking words such as «believe,» «expect,» «anticipate,» «intend,» «plan,» «estimate,» «should,» «may,» «will,» «objective,» «projection,» «forecast,» «management believes,» «continue,» «strategy,» «position» or the negative of those terms or other variations of them or by comparable terminology.

Alternative funds have a wide range of investment objectives and may use complex and more investment strategies such as short - selling or tactical asset allocation.

Observed security events and configurations, such as communication with a botnet, malware distribution, and email server configuration, are assessed for severity, frequency and duration and used to generate objective Security Ratings.

The model is both objective, using elements such as volatility of past operating revenues, financial strength, and company cash flows, and subjective, including expected equities market returns, future interest rates, implied industry outlook and forecasted company earnings.

The Tool Kit is designed as a roadmap for Morgan Stanley Financial Advisors to use in empowering individual and institutional clients when selecting investments for a holistic portfolio consistent with financial objectives and guidelines put forward by the Catholic Church.

The forward - looking statements in this presentation relate to, among other things, our objectives, goals, strategies, intentions, plans, beliefs, expectations and estimates, and can generally be identified by the use of words such as «may», «will», «could», «should», «would», «likely», «suspect», «outlook», «expect», «intend», «estimate», «anticipate», «believe», «plan», «forecast», «objective», «seek», «aim», «continue», «goal», «restore», «embark» and «endeavour» (or the negative thereof) and words and expressions of similar import, and include statements concerning possible or assumed future results.

My objective is to give you information so that you can make an informed decision as to using an invention company or not.

To create other models, the psychologists used objective criteria, such as a division's profitability, to differentiate the star performers at senior levels within their organizations from the average ones.

Unlike traditional index strategies that typically weight companies based on market capitalization, such as the S&P 500 Index, Fundamental Index strategies use objective financial measures based on company size.

It can also be used by your startup as a way to present your ideas, sales projections, and plans for achieving your objectives to potential investors for funding purposes.

Your objective as an entrepreneur should be: — to reduce the sense of insecurity and lack of control over the company's use of funds and general financial direction that your VC might feel (they wont accept it but its always there)-- to reduce to a minimum the amount of time and effort used to collect the needed information

I encourage you to get bit by the automation bug, using it to pay as many bills and fund as many savings objectives as possible each month.

As such, let's take a look an objective look at the next major, long - term support levels in both the NASDAQ 100 and S&P 500 indices (using ETF charts of $ QQQ and $ SPY).

Based on a comparison of total expense ratios for U.S. sector - level ETFs with similar holdings and investment objectives (using the MSCI and S&P Global Industry Classification System — GICS) within the universe of 298 ETFs Morningstar has classified as the Sector Stock asset class.

Buffett and Munger derive great value from using the other as an objective sounding board to discuss investment ideas.

Indeed, Dow Jones likens the Global Dow to a Dow Jones industrial average for the global economy, and the Averages Committee selects the components of the index using objective criteria such as market capitalization, as well more subjective factors like a company's reputation and to what extent it is of interest to investors.

In our online course, you'll learn some qualitative, or subjective, methods for valuing companies, as well as the most frequently used quantitative, or objective models.

Last week, Federal Reserve Governor Jerome H. Powell discussed the use of the blockchain and digital currencies as they relate to the Fed's broad policy objectives.

The Board wants to ensure that the Mayors» Regional Transportation Plan objectives recognize the need for, and include in their planning, integrated transportation and land use planning across all levels of government, and that they also reflect the region's international, competitive position as Canada's Asia - Pacific Gateway.

If he explicitly asks qualifying with «objective», then he will have exposed himself as begging using objectivity in trying to demonstrate an instance of objectivity (which would look circularly foolish).

Psychological operations, according to a field manual produced by the U.S. Army, involve the «planned use of propaganda and other psychological actions to influence the opinions, emotions, attitudes, and behavior of hostile foreign groups in such a way as to support the achievement of [U.S.] national objectives.

However, Whitehead uses the experience of CE as evidenced for an objective claim, so it seems as if he is making an objective claim about it, and hence it could be erroneous, since there could be a difference between «seems» and «is.»

By using genocide as as example of objective morality and not viewing god as immoral when he orders genocide in the Bible you only proving that morality is subjective.

objective morality, when used as «evidence» of the existence of god is classic circular reasoning; «I believe in god because of the existence of objective morality and I believe in objective morality because I believe in god.

Dewey calls this value «quality,» but by the term he means neither mathematical nor secondary qualities; he uses the term to refer, first, to the wholeness or deeper reality, in some aspect of the world, often as that wholeness is presented in a work of art. 24 If this were called the objective locus of quality, the subjective locus would be the emotional intuition of the objective quality; this subjective quality gives the experience itself the unity which makes it that particular experience.25 It is this empirical discernment of quality which provides the substance of the derivative and propositional resolution of the conflict between the individual and its environment.

It pays less attention to objectives such as the promotion of the good life of all, production for use, employment, fair trade, or safeguarding nature.

Mike, not me has just used your abhorrence at the idea of carrying out an act that his god specifically commands as an argument that you have instilled in you an objective sense of right and wrong... of which that same god is the source.

This doctrine is popularly termed «objective immortality» yet Whitehead's term is «everlastingness» (always in quotes, as for example PR 347), because he had already used «objective immortality» for the temporal shift from subjectivity to objectivity.

Objective names such as Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism have only come into use in recent centuries; this phenomenon, implying that religions are «things», is described as «reification».

It is a criterion much used in England, as McArthur points out, and he claims that it is the most objective of the criteria which can be used.

However, since the purpose of this essay is not simply to counter Griffin's challenge but also to clarify where FWTs stand on significant epistemological issues, it is important to emphasize that most FWTs do not view «illuminating power» as a criterion that can be used in an objective, neutral fashion in any context.

Rorty, on the other hand, observes that we use the term «objective» sometimes to mean «representing things as they really are» and at other times to designate «the presence of, or the hope for, agreement among inquirers.»

The Golden Rule should be objective rather than subjective and must be applied to all and not to be used as a tool to single out and to inject feeling of guilt to good people.

There is of course «objective immortality» in the sense that the several occasions, as they have come into being, realized their aim, and then «perished» as the process moves on, have made their specific contribution to the enrichment of the whole process and have been used by the Divine Activity in establishing fuller good in wider participation.

It was used by society as a means to achieve social objectives.