Sentence examples for counterproductive design from inspiring English sources

Ignoring conceptual questions about how technologies attain their meaning and function can lead to a counterproductive design strategy because crucial influences on how technologies are shaped within actual practices are ignored.

The brazen and counterproductive action, designed to punish the Palestinians, flouted the Obama administration, which had Israel's back twice recently: in the clash with Hamas over Gaza and, despite increased diplomatic isolation, in opposing the successful vote to upgrade Palestine to a nonmember observer state in the United Nations.

We propose a novel experimental design to study counterproductive behaviour in a principal agent setting.

It's debasing and counterproductive to wage shrill personal attacks designed to please a hard-core base.

We show that ignoring the output price effect of purchasing funds reduces environmental gain and in some cases may make a purchasing fund counterproductive, and we argue that the optimal design of targeting criteria must consider the price feedback effect.

Speaking before a visit to Israel, Matthew Hancock, the Cabinet Office minister, said new government guidance on procurement was designed to stop "damaging and counterproductive local foreign policies undermining our national security".

In an era of increasing antibiotic resistance to community-acquired infections, descriptions of counterproductive health-seeking behaviors are needed as the initial step in designing mitigation strategies.

Crop eradication efforts have failed to find quick and attractive alternatives for cannabis farmers, while police crackdowns designed to meet targets for arrests and seizures have been counterproductive.

The leak could be designed to put pressure on Iran - but it may be counterproductive, pushing Tehran into rejection.

The design allows us to study and derive clean measures of different forms of counterproductive behaviour in a controlled but non-obtrusive manner.

Some regulations that could be highly beneficial are badly designed and insufficient, while others that have been implemented are wasteful and counterproductive.