Sentence examples for means or methods from inspiring English sources

They outline an achievable standard but do not dictate particular means or methods.

The patients did not use any other means or methods for cleaning their teeth throughout the study.

Acupuncture may stimulate self-regulatory processes independent of the treatment objective, points, means or methods used; this would account for acupuncture's reported benefits in so many disparate pathologic conditions.

The dominant explanation for how acupuncture might work involves neurochemical responses and is not reported to be dependent on treatment objective, specific points, means or method of stimulation.

The dominant rationale for acupuncture involves neurochemical responses which appear to be independent of objective, point selection or the means or method of stimulation; this raises questions about the beliefs underpinning this intervention and deserves further investigation.

"We have reached an era in which we glorify the winner, without looking at the means or the method.

(x Passive cabin ventilation means ducts, devices, or methods which utilize convective airflow to move heated air from the cabin interior to the exterior of the vehicle.

Second, unlike the K-mean or EM methods [ 21], the number of clusters does not need to be predefined.

For the purpose of determining the intracellular carbohydrate content of yeast, the cells must be disintegrated by mechanical means or non-mechanical methods (physical, chemical, or enzymatic) [ 20, 21].

Feature mapping methods result in the production of features or feature sets, and for clarity these are referred to as the means for their production, or "methods" rather than as the noun resulting from their production, or "feature set".

This trend is observed irrespective of whether the area is determined by chemical means or by physical method.