This is the scenario proposed by Scott Schaffer, a sociologist at California State University at Fullerton, as a rationale for his Journal of Mundane Behavior, a new scholarly periodical devoted to the banal aspects of everyday life.
It should not be taken as a rationale at any educational level for the development of curricula or teaching methods that have as their primary objective preparing students for some imagined next stage of development.
I'm clutching at straws for a rationale here, as you can probably tell.
With our contribution, we aim at providing a rationale for investments in design quality improvement, a complement to the economic analysis of production quality and an inspiration for future empirical studies.
That's at least a rationale for staying in the race.
On Wednesday the lawyer defending the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) tried his hand at offering a rationale for excluding gay couples from marriage that didn't rest on animus.
Based upon the finding that CD25+ T cells are expanded in AAV and show an association with disease activity, there is at least a rationale to assume that anti-CD25 agents might have a beneficial effect.
With a rationale at hand for why AidB is an AB dimer in the absence of FAD, we then considered how FAD binding generates AidB tetramers when the cofactor does not appear to be directly involved in creating the tetramer interface.
In the frenzied search for a rationale, or at least tidy, explanation, Russia's political elite was torn between crediting the byzantine world of back-room intrigue or the byzantine thinking of their President.
Any rational explanation for growing your own seems, at this point, just that: a rationale.
James Bernat, a neurologist at Dartmouth, proposed a rationale for why brain death and biological death could actually be one and the same.
