Lack of clarity about professional practice means that, in fulfilling useful, flexible, and cost-effective new roles, individuals may serve managerial, economic, and patient interests, but their roles may remain limited and lack any obvious benefits for the development of their professions.
Parkour can be a very fulfilling, useful activity.
This chapter defines engineering as the art of organizing and negotiating the design, production, operation and decommissioning of artefacts, devices, systems and processes that fulfill useful functions by transforming the world to solve recognized problems.
In the following sections, we will provide an overview on how machine perception has been addressed in the past, and what the promising approaches for perception in future automation systems are in order to be able to fulfill useful tasks in more general environments as humans can.
While public sector workers "have less freedom than their business equivalents," they also experience a "stronger sense of fulfilling a useful role that contributes towards society".
There's nothing like a week of living in a temporary city filled with tens of thousands of people and no running water to remind you that exercising control over my reactions is the most fulfilling and useful thing I can do.
Nevertheless, where interest fulfilled a useful social function elaborate rationalizations were developed for it.
These men need to be trained to fulfill a useful function in our society, but it is easier said than done.
For decades the upper classes, the middle class, had fulfilled this useful function, earning (in communist countries) death, torture and imprisonment, and in more equable countries like Britain, merely obloquy, or irritating obligations, like having to acquire a cockney accent.
Asked about this assertion, he laughed and allowed that sometimes he feels like a charlatan but that he doesn't mind because his charlatanish thoughts are counterbalanced by "the feeling that even a charlatan can can fulfill a useful role".
They can be described as having invented the computer, but it required the work of the designers at IBM in the United States to transform an inscrutable labyrinth of wires and dials into a marketable machine that fulfilled a useful function.
