Sentence examples for folk systems from inspiring English sources
The Maasai herders classified seasonally grazed landscapes using socio-cultural folk systems, soils, topography and vegetation, management knowledge and seasons of grazing.
Scientific systems and detailed soil mapping are replacing folk taxonomies, especially in the more developed countries, because folk systems, if they still exist, are only locally valid and have relatively limited uses compared to scientific systems.
Other folk systems do exist, however, that produce classifications that are very different from modern biology (for example, Berndt 2000; see review by Petto and Meyers 2004).
Perhaps it is this close correspondence of folk and formal scientific classifications that underlies some of the misconceptions about biological classification and explains why antievolution arguments often include attacks on homology, effectively exploiting the public's confusion between scientific and folk systems of classification.
While the AYUSH systems represent professionalized and codified medical systems, there also exists a widespread, largely non-codified and diverse tradition of folk systems which, in Indian policy papers are increasingly referred to as Local Health Traditions (LHT) [ 4, 10].
However, said Mr Agar, there is a "a folk system of prevention and intervention" that occurs at the left-hand side of the curve, where growth is slow.
"Evolution and Devolution of Folkbiological Knowledge" Although much has been written on universal principles of and bases for folk classification systems, previous work appears to have two limitations.
I know that you played the Folk the System 2004 festival, which was sponsored by the National Alliance, but do you also play in any local establishments or at county fairs?
It is commonly used in the folk medicinal system of this region.
Matt estimated they'd need 12 more people, including in-house attorneys, audit staff, and dedicated systems folk to upgrade software for internal controls.
Lockheed Martin and Booz Allen Hamilton, for instance, have offices in D.C., and they need good IT folk running their systems.
