Sentence examples for prescriptive value from inspiring English sources

The impossibility of complying with the Bayesian model undermines its prescriptive value.

Now that we have seen how youth can use technology as a tool for organizing and mobilizing in our own country, we need to recognize the prescriptive value this has for winning the hearts and minds of youth around the world.

The fourth point focuses on the diagnostic or prescriptive value of safety climate perceptions or scores.

As such, the codes describe relational rather than subjective phenomena, which may have greater validity and prescriptive value as a general change model.

Safety climate's value as a leading indicator of safety performance would justify assigning it a sentinel type function, but it would not automatically have any diagnostic or prescriptive value in terms of safety program improvement.

Setting prescriptive values.

Employees must be guided by clear and prescriptive values that help them determine how to handle unforeseen or difficult situations.

It is the very fact that a liberal democracy is not prescriptive, but values the processes above the ideology, which has stood the test of time.

More important, according to feminist analyses, the very premise of prescriptive dualism the valuing of attributes of one polarized side and the devaluing of those of the other, the idea that domination and oppression can be justified by appealing to attributes like masculinity, rationality, being civilized or developed, etc.—is itself problematic.

A number of studies have offered cost-benefit analyses to address this, usually based on modelled heating consumption figures and prescriptive approaches to setting values for unknowable variables such as future fuel price rises and the investor's discount rate.

As well as playing a prescriptive role, norms and values in GHG has become the subject of growing scholarship.