Zhu's ultimate purpose was pragmatic rather than epistemic; that is, he was laying out the concepts, framework, and practices that he deemed most conducive to self-cultivation, self-realization, and ethical practice, rather than formulating objectively accurate concepts, systems, and methods for ascertaining objective truths about the world.
A third limitation is the lack of health records to ascertain objective asthma-relevant outcomes such as hospitalizations and physician visits.
The difficulty of ascertaining the objective worth of women's work, in this interpretation, is further complicated by issues of status and class.
How upsetting it is, that so many of our citizens (good people, not lawless ones, on both sides of this abortion issue, and on various sides of other issues as well) think that we Justices should properly take into account their views, as though we were engaged not in ascertaining an objective law but in determining some kind of social consensus.
The questionnaire was then pre-tested on a group of students who were expected to identify questions most valid in ascertaining our objectives.
The questionnaire was then pre-tested on a group of residents who were expected to identify questions most valid in ascertaining our objectives.
A health economic analysis is also included with the objective of ascertaining the cost effectiveness of the intervention compared to standard care, and the potential benefit of the intervention in terms of number of life years saved.
This paper is based on an HSR capacity self-assessment that was conducted by the seven SPHs, with the objectives of ascertaining existing capacities for HSR; building consensus around HSR capacity development strategies for each SPH; and making an initial and rapid assessment of HSR priorities in the different countries involved in the HEALTH Alliance.
Such patients are particularly difficult to ascertain, and an objective measure of the VA will provide an important contribution to the evaluation of such cases.
Patients that took 80% or more of their medicines, as ascertained by an objective measure, for example, MEMS, are reported as adherent, and those who took less than this cutoff value are reported as nonadherent, whilst some may correspond to other self-report measures that had been accredited by objective measures in advance.
