We often make assumptions about the needs on the ground and devise smart but prescriptive programs.
Yet, it doesn't feel as if computers are actually running the healthcare industry because the diagnostic and prescriptive programs run on data supplied by humans.
At first blush, UCTs do not sound so promising, at least to Western ears socialized to believe that prescriptive programs -- building a school, distributing bags of rice, training farmers in cultivation techniques to name a few out of thousands -- are the best way to help our less fortunate brethren in the third world.
Others need a more prescriptive, rigid program (which I would have rebelled against).
UCTs are essentially what they sound like: giving away money to needy people with the belief they will make better individual decisions with the money than any prescriptive aid program.
By integrating temporal with spatial control, here we demonstrate the "developmental" self-assembly of a DNA tetrahedron, where a prescriptive molecular program orchestrates the kinetic pathways by which DNA molecules isothermally self-assemble into a well-defined three-dimensional wireframe geometry.
Over three decades, Section 8 has grown into an overly prescriptive and unwieldy program.
Dr. Knope refuses to schedule more than two patients per hour and develops a prescriptive exercise and nutrition program for each patient as part of an annual physical.
"We are interested in collaborative, not prescriptive solutions," explains Marla Feldman, MAZON program director.
Rather than choosing a specific, prescriptive low-calorie diet or exercise program, the present study used LEARN, a well-established and flexible program aimed at making gradual changes in lifestyle, including healthy eating and behavior modification.
