You might call it the "legislative box" theory.
Illustrating what might be called a Pandora's box theory of social order, Goran Paskaljevic's garishly expressionistic portrait of life, from murder in the shower to a mob stoning of a man trying to escape over a fence, lets everybody lash out.
So we can think of functionalism as a 'black box' theory.
Like when you want the black box theory in microeconomics and you get results about the black box on airplanes.
Sharon Madnek Milwaukee, Feb. 23, 2010 To the Editor: Compared with the experience of many medical researchers who have proposed "outside the box" theories for treatment of diseases, Dr. Keith Flaherty's story is a veritable walk in the park.
Among the technical approaches advanced were probability theory, Dempster Shafer evidence theory, random sets, sets of probability measures, imprecise coherent probabilities, coherent lower previsions, probability boxes, possibility theory, fuzzy sets, joint distribution tableaux, polynomial chaos expansions, and info-gap models.
The method is based on two-step updating method, a novel approach to obtain coupling parameters in the gluing sub-regions of a multi-scale FE model, and upon Probability Box (P-box) theory that can provide a lower and upper bound for the purpose of quantifying and transmitting the uncertainty of structural parameters.
The expectation is that figure will come down in the privacy of the ballot box, the theory being that when asked by a pollster a question that seeks information about a person's belief in equality or human rights, the response will be positive.
Through analyzing both advantages and disadvantages of some technologies such as induced caving, filling, gob sealing and isolation, we presented a new filling method named box-filling, in view of box foundation theory, to control the disasters of ground collapse, water inrush and mine fire.
Black-box complexity theory recently produced several surprisingly fast black-box optimization algorithms.
It is stronger than the bounds that follow from general black-box complexity theory and is matched by the run time of many evolutionary algorithms.
