The methodology of ecological landscape design is applied to secure a holistic reading of the physical setting and propose a holistic, integrative conceptual model for the protection of coastal biodiversity that is ecologically sensitive and in synergy with agricultural and cultural uses.
Such holistic reading practices find a surprising source of support in present-day eye-movement studies, which track the complex choreography between eye and brain and show, for example, how the minimal punctuation in manuscripts snaps into focus when viewed as part of a comprehensive system.
The proponents of the holistic approach have suggested that writing be scored impressionistically and a holistic reading of an essay should involve reading for an individual impression of the quality of the writing (e.g. Cooper and Odell 1977).
The search for meaning started with a holistic reading, which consisted of repeatedly listening, reading and re-reading the recorded and transcribed data to capture the fundamental meaning of living with migraine.
I'd been at Blue Pearl Laguna, a new holistic retreat (read: boot camp) nestled in Laguna Canyon, for three days and 30 hours worth of yoga, hiking, gym workouts, more yoga, tai chi, nutrition lectures and very little food.
Weinreb's call for a more holistic approach reads like a corporate social responsibility wishlist for a world that values employees' contributions to sustainability and business success, brings chief sustainability officers into the executive suite and firmly plants sustainability in the freelance economy.
Other institutes just give the teachers a holistic schedule reading from which and up to which pages they should cover during the semester.
Similarly, global-as-supraterritorial is useless when regarded in isolation and in a reductionist way: this concept needs to consider the influences on health on international, national, regional, local, community, individual and the biomedical level to assemble the 'whole picture' in a global (read: holistic) concept to improve health worldwide in the final step.
Look around online for some reputable practitioners and learn more (a good website is the one for Dr. Lewis Gross' New York City practice, Tribeca Center for Integrative Holistic Dentistry; be sure to read the "holistic dentistry" page).
But because, like some kind of holistic Sherlock Holmes, Dr Talib can read your face and discover your crimes.
