The Georgia student, 24, originally refused pain medications due in part to her personal convictions and graduate-school background in holistic pain management techniques.
The larger philosophical background is the holistic view that the field of design extends far beyond aesthetically appealing commodities to embrace just about every conceivable dimension of the human-made environment.
Treatment necessity beliefs for the pharmaceutical placebo were influenced by general pharmaceutical beliefs whereas necessity beliefs for the natural placebo were informed by general background beliefs about holistic treatments.
"You need some people who are holistic thinkers and have liberal arts backgrounds and some who are deep functional experts," Laszlo Bock, Google's senior vice president who oversees the company's hiring, told the New York Times a year ago.
Such methods are discouraged in the U.K., which relies on "holistic" assessments, considering the appearance, behavior, and background of the person in question.
The report provides a holistic scoring guide, a pilot-tested writing background questionnaire, and an idea generation process survey.
This study serves as a background to the application of holistic and integrated approaches to modelling the energy and GHG emissions of the food chain.
As background, recall that on the holistic conception of how reasons work, what is a reason here may be no reason at all or even a reason with the opposite valence elsewhere.
In such background, this paper presents a holistic passive design approach by incorporating a robust sensitivity analysis to an efficient multi-objective optimization process to assess a typical high-rise residential building in hot and humid regions like Hong Kong.
GPs see themselves as doctors with a holistic perspective focusing on the psycho-social background of patients.
