The generational scheme is oversimplified, but it offers a useful heuristic device for understanding the evolution of race relations.
Though primarily an heuristic device, the LES model can be used to address concrete problems.
From a logical point of view, functionalism remains a heuristic device, or indicator, for describing the role of ritual in society.
By using the heuristic device of exploring legal culture, this book examines the interplay in law between the Roman political heritage, Orthodox Christianity and Hellenic culture.
Psychological stress is employed as a heuristic device to understand how the physical environment can influence human psychological functioning.
One is that the value of classification lies in its function as a heuristic device, i.e. as a help construction.
Not only did he write works on theoretical mechanics and hydrostatics, but his treatise Method Concerning Mechanical Theorems shows that he used mechanical reasoning as a heuristic device for the discovery of new mathematical theorems.
MACs are a useful heuristic device because they allow easy determination of (1) the effect of a particular cut in emissions on the carbon price, and (2) the direct macroeconomic costs of a reduction policy in that period.
We employ a comparative and interdisciplinary approach to the hybrid term "contemporary" as it intersects various fields and serves as a heuristic device to understand phenomena in politics, culture, and the arts.
Each recipe will be a heuristic device we will use to teach each other what we have learned, to see what is on the plate in a new way, and to better understand the geographies that overflow.
Conceptualizing a social institution or group as a social system is a useful heuristic device for describing how the unit functions in society.
