Such estimates of the annual frequency of exceedance of prescriptive limits for the effects of vibrations on buildings and people are needed for the planning and licensing, but likewise for the development and operation of deep geothermal systems.
It is striking that we did not find any studies investigating the effects of "Prescriptive" interventions by SEP and only one "Product" intervention that presented differential results which had no preferential impact by SEP.
Prescriptive rules have the effect of infantilising staff, and make it harder for them to adapt to different situations.
This study tested the effects of a prescriptive exercise intervention alone, versus one supported by mobile health technology on cardiometabolic risk factors.
What they found was an inverted-U relationship between rule explicitness and effectiveness: if rules were overly vague or overly prescriptive, they had a demotivating effect.
A current clinical trial [ 47] is however underway to test this hypothesis by assessing the effect of a prescriptive diet versus an inactive control (befriending).
The results indicated that the hybrid fire testing method would provide more realistic fire endurance evaluation than the prescriptive method due to including the effects from the rest of the building on the column specimen during the test.
17 Phase III randomised controlled trials are often too small and of too short a duration to detect small or cumulative adverse effects and are necessarily prescriptive in their choice of patients for entry into trials.
Although usually effective, this prescriptive attitude increases markedly treatment costs.
Duncan's policies, which have often relied on competitive grant programs, but he disagrees with Duncan's prescriptive turnaround plans -- currently in effect in districts that have taken federal School Improvement Grants.
