Sentence examples for basis of rational from inspiring English sources
All computations applied the pseudospectral method with a basis of rational orthogonal functions invented by Christov, which are eigenfunctions of the Hilbert transform.
The mathematical basis of rational behaviour was described in the 17th century by Blaise Pascal, but implications for philosophical thinking and rationality were laid out in the late 18th century by the "French Newton", Pierre-Simon Laplace.
But the commission report breezily responds, "illness, especially if it is psychic, should not be an obstacle to making a decision on the basis of rational reasoning," subject to a careful physician's approval.
Additivity of functional group contributions to protein ligand binding is a very popular concept in medicinal chemistry as the basis of rational design and optimized lead structures.
The opinions were compiled, the decisions were made, and the jobs were handed out, not solely on the basis of rational, informed scrutiny of candidates' merits but also on the basis of what people who might know something had to say about who was hot and who was not.
An old-fashioned Establishment Republican and self-styled "small-c conservative," he saw himself as a sometime corporate executive and as a sometime public servant (he worked in the Nixon, Ford and Bush 41 administrations) who believed in making decisions on the basis of rational inquiry and long-term public interest.
The random-selection model can also be the basis of a rational budgeting strategy for an illogical world.
Comparative mitogenomics provides the basis of a rational approach to molecular marker selection and optimisation.
An understanding of law and morality as the basis of the rational world was Kant's continuing legacy to the present, he argued.
At the basis of a rational drug design project there is the selection and characterization of suitable target(s).
