Sentence examples for ideal intervention from inspiring English sources

As Paul Tough explains in "Whatever It Takes," Canada "believed that he could find the ideal intervention for each age of a child's life, and then connect those interventions into an unbroken chain of support".

A work-sharing programme may not be the ideal intervention, but it may well have rendered unnecessary even worse interventions like Cash for Clunkers and the carmaker bail-outs.

An ideal intervention on a system cannot intervene on both the independent and the dependent variable at the same time.

Also, the notion of an "ideal" intervention, borrowed from Woodward's account of causal relevance, cannot be applied straightforwardly to constitutive explanations.

The notion of an ideal intervention in this account is explicitly indebted to and a proposed extension of Woodward's theory of causal relevance to the constitutive domain (see Craver 2007; see also Kaplan 2012).

Roughly, one variable is causally relevant to a second when there exists an ideal intervention on the first that changes the value of the second via the change induced on the first.

According to this account, if it can be shown (i) that the putative components are contained within S, (ii) that some ideal interventions on the putative component (x's f-ing) change the phenomenon (S's y-ing), and (iii) that some ideal interventions on S's y-ing change x's f-ing, that is sufficient to establish that x is a component in the mechanism.

Strengthening processes that add value to the products (LPP, LIFE Network, IUCN-WISP and FAO 2010) would be ideal interventions to enable camel producers in peri-urban systems to earn more from their stock.

In short, the claim that C causes E requires only that ideal interventions on C can be used to change the value of E, not that C and E are physically connected to one another.

Because x's f-ing and S's y-ing are related as part to whole, they are not independent, and so require another way to think about ideal interventions (see Baumgartner 2010; 2013; Leuridan 2011; yet see Menzies 2012; Woodward 2014.

It was most difficult to elicit ideas about ideal interventions for self-harm from patients whose life-circumstances were characterised by alcohol dependency.