Sentence examples for assumed instrumental from inspiring English sources

This article develops a critique of the assumed instrumental rationality of mainstream policies and programmes that focus on market and policy incentives to influence the educational demands of the poor.

Language aptitude is the other determinant of language achievement, among other support and other factors, which are assumed to involve instrumental motives.

This is assumed to be instrumental in enabling proper statistical analysis on several confounding factors.

It is further assumed that the instrumental variable (for this study, the C282Y mutation in the HFE gene) is not associated with any measured or unmeasured confounding, ie, it is naturally randomized in the population.

To account for this apparent reliability, Alexander et al. (1948 ▶) had to assume that the crystallites were quite imperfect and had to diffract over considerably wider angles than their expected perfect width, whereas de Wolf (1958 ▶) assumed that the instrumental broadening was a significant contributor.

Some non-anthropocentric environmental thinkers have found the language of economics unsatisfactory in its implications since it already appears to assume a largely instrumental view of nature.

We then chose to use glucosylceramides for the calibration curve and GlcCer d18 1/12 0 as internal standard for both gluco- and galacto- derivatives, assuming an identical instrumental response in ESI conditions, as recently confirmed by Shaner and colleagues [ 38].

The therapeutic potential of discriminative extinction training has been encapsulated in a quote from Rescorla (1991, page 21): 'one might assume that an instrumental discriminative stimulus gains control over responding to the degree that the R-O association undergoes an increase in its presence.

In later numbers those men assumed more typical roles as instrumental accompanists on lute or ox-leg fiddle (named for its shape).

Only occasionally does a kind of reflex snobbery lower the tone: traditional instrumental virtuosity is assumed to lead to "flashy emptiness", and the book is mysteriously unwilling to acknowledge that mainstream popular music can be innovative and exciting too.

Since they naturalise mainly for emotional or identificatory reasons, the acquisition of citizenship might be an even stronger signal of commitment for them than for immigrants from non-Western European countries, who are assumed to naturalise mainly for instrumental reasons.