(Hempel's dismissal, in 1951, of this pragmatic indicator presupposes the desiderata of the formalist project).
Our pragmatic indicator for investment savings will be the minimisation of energy transfer duty and, particularly, the minimisation of gas recycle and fuel firing.
Therefore, previous/current occupation has been used as a pragmatic indicator of socio-economic circumstances to allocate participants into groups with others of similar occupational and therefore socio-economic backgrounds (Craig and Forbes, 2005).
This paper will provide a pragmatic discussion where indicators come from, how they are used especially in the field of modelling and simulation and how a complex indicator should be designed.
Although the UK regards this as pragmatic and no indicator of the likelihood of war, it has been accompanied by more obvious sabre-rattling designed to put pressure on Iran.
PRagmatic Explanatory Continuum Indicator Summary (PRECIS -2 is a tool that could imPRECIS -2isn insight for trialistool
The use of the hybrid conceptual framework provides a pragmatic approach to defining performance indicators that are aligned to the strategic aims of a health research system.
The survey tool was developed using a pragmatic set of 21 research indicators that includes those identified by the Delphi panel and the study participants themselves.
The use of pragmatic pro-poor and gender sensitive indicators, is strategic as this powerful incentive for focusing action can help resist the 'evaporation' of attention to poverty or gender concerns, identified in the gender mainstreaming literature[ 33].
Therefore, we adopted a pragmatic approach to building a set of biodiversity indicators that aggregated most of the knowledge available from the ERN [14].
