Confucius and other pre-Qin thinkers viewed the traditional political institutions of China as bankrupt and tried to devise a rationale for something to replace them.
I wish I could devise a rationale for giving the money to me or even to Charlotte Rampling -- but I can't, and as there is no obvious recipient for the $150, it is the credit-card company that has the greatest claim.
The rationale for devising such a framework is to select a set of candidate genes from gene synergy that could potentially discover genetic regulatory modules or disease-related factors.
A study of activation of the cytokine network by interleukin 2, IL-2, may provide a rationale for devising cytokine combination and cytokine antagonist treatments with increased anti-tumour efficacy and decreased toxicity.
The rationale for devising and implementing lists of never events in health care, therefore, is to mitigate or eliminate the risks associated with these types of serious but preventable occurrences.
We do this either by accepting some critic's rationale or by devising one of our own, or by simply feeling that by entering the story through our own imaginations, we become the ending.
Based on this rationale, we devised a Service Recommender mechanism and introduced a slight modification in the service lifecycle to accommodate the new Service Recommendation protocol that supports the mechanism.
The quality appraisal instrument devised by Philips et al. [ 24] include dimensions of methodological quality corresponding to rationales for structure, structural assumptions, disease states/pathways, cycle length, and internal consistency.
Two rationales were considered.
Howard began devising publicity stunts.
