Sentence examples for functional norm from inspiring English sources

Others point to the lack of an objective and/or morally justified distinction between therapy and enhancement, health and disease (Goering 2000; Resnik 2000).[58] Indeed, with GM, we humans ourselves determine what counts as "normal" genetic variation, no longer needing to look to a pre-existing species-typical functional norm (Resnik 1997b).

Some groups are far better than others at inculcating functional norms and social skills.

In this case optimal approximation properties have been proved in all reasonable functional norms.

What all teleological (or "teleosemantic") theories of mental content have in common is the idea that psycho-semantic norms are ultimately derivable from functional norms.

If either psycho-semantic or functional norms were prescriptive, the attempt to naturalize them would seem to ignore Hume's warning to beware trying to derive ought-statements from is-statements, but those who offer teleological theories of mental content claim that the norms of both functions and content fall on the is side of any is/ought divide.

Traditionally, given the configuration layout of a low or medium height building structure, as it has been decided by architectural, esthetic or functional norms, the practicing engineer starts the structural design by estimating the design (base) shear, V d, required by code provisions.

Their most recent project, Afreaks, was included in this year's Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, signaling the brothers' autonomy from aesthetic and functional norms.

Commentators have noted that guidelines can be extolled and 'exhibited in practice' (functional norms) or extolled but 'ignored' (non-functional norms) [ 33].

Learning more about stakeholder perspectives of ethical guidelines might, therefore, assist to improve their status as functional norms.

Model selection and parameter fitting for the functional reaction norms.

We described the QM atoms by the DFT/BLYP functional and norm-conserving Martins-Trouiller pseudopotentials with dispersion-corrected atom-centered potentials.