Sentence examples for exploratory tools from inspiring English sources

Scenarios can be used as exploratory tools for exploring discontinuities of long-term energy transitions.

The contribution outlines how providing designers with exploratory tools allows to consider sustainable construction in a systemic manner.

Since this is by far the most expensive part of the exploration process, other geophysical exploratory tools are always exhaustively employed before a wildcat well is drilled.

Sequence alignment is a natural complement to the exploratory tools and statistical models proposed in Guédon et al. (J. Theor. Biol. 212 (2001) 481) with the distinctive feature of applying to individual sequences.

Specifically trends in fire incidence are compared with both census-derived data and small area geodemographic classifications in order to assess the value of such classifications as exploratory tools in investigating potential associations with socio-economic patterns.

Lastly, subgroup analyses and meta-regression are, by disposition, exploratory tools to provide pointers towards possible sources of heterogeneity - they cannot be taken as confirmatory tests for definitive conclusions and interpretations about the causes of heterogeneity.

As an exploratory tool, the stereomicroscope is without parallel.

Increased demand could well bring down the price to that of another great exploratory tool, binoculars.

"Lexical statistics can be useful as an exploratory tool with a descriptive and investigative goal," he said.

In 1940, when she left for Japan (she was obliged to remain in Asia for the rest of the war), her use of photography as an exploratory tool came to an end, as did her affair with Jeanneret, which had lasted some seven years.

As a final exploratory tool, we apply link analysis.