We can catalogue theoretical, empirical, and policy instrument reasons to laugh such fears off.
In his art, the wit and the irony are ways of reflecting the difficulties of the world while hanging on to his sanity — instruments of reason in a world of madness.
In Leibniz's mind, "this language will be the greatest instrument of reason," for "when there are disputes among persons, we can simply say: Let us calculate, without further ado, and see who is right" (The Art of Discovery (1685); C, 176 (W, 51)).
Resolution of disagreement by means of speech, the instrument of reason, had been replaced by resolution through force.
Clinical trial investigators use different HRQL instruments for various reasons, including their familiarity with an instrument.
It is rare to detect between-treatment differences in presenteeism using self-report instruments for several reasons: the instruments lack sensitivity, there is often a lack of statistical power, and there are variations in aspects specific to the trial design, eg, trial duration and time points of assessment.
This, and the fact that the resilience scales are often shorter and thus more easily applied in epidemiological studies and community samples than the comprehensive FFM based measurement instruments, constitute sound reasons for employing the dimensional approach when the scope of the study is narrowed to the resilience phenotype and not personality more generally.
Now, beneath the corporate level and beneath the lifestyle element, you're going to start to see more folks on the ground doing this again: playing instruments for that reason, expressing something.
Results suggest that the TAS-P is a promising instrument for assessing reasons for nonadherence to recommendations for CBT and pharmacotherapy interventions.
Apparently, despite reading Cassidy's book, Jacobs failed to grasp that the reason instruments to cut the mother's symphysis pubis and crush the fetus's skull are part of history is that now we have a safe procedure to deliver these babies abdominally.
