WOSM describes Scouting as "a voluntary nonpolitical educational movement for young people open to all without distinction of origin, race or creed, in accordance with the purpose, principles and method conceived by the Founder".
The Association of Chiropractic Colleges defines the purpose, principles and practice of chiropractic as the finding and reduction of vertebral subluxations that "compromise neural integrity and may influence organ system function and general health".
The evolutionary formula variation, selection and replication is a formal, "all-purpose" principle, which can perform its magic equally well in either domain.How, then, does the principle go to work on the stuff of economics?
We stress again that the fitness-for-purpose principle should guide design decisions.
Given the fitness-for-purpose principle the application of the guidelines are necessarily eclectic.
From the fitness-for-purpose principle, guidelines are eclectic, requiring expertise judgement to use them appropriately in different contexts.
These are (1) the principle of proportionality, (2) the need to substantiate decisions applying the fitness-for-purpose principle, and (3) getting the right person for the right job.
In this study we adopted the fitness-for-purpose principle [ 5, 20], in which quality is determined as the extent to which a programme of assessment fulfils its purpose or its function.
The purposes, principles, and organization of the United Nations are outlined in the Charter.
A diversity of methods need to be applied for network building: according to the fit-for-purpose-principle. It is useful to know which combination of methods and in which time frame produces the best results.
