Likewise, documenting personal design rationale helps users remember why somebody made certain design decisions and helps to communicate that rationale to others.
For a generation, that rationale has helped justify expanding America's prison system.
Many acupuncture trials fail to offer a meaningful rationale, but proposing a rationale can help investigators to develop and test a causal hypothesis, choose an appropriate control and rule out placebo effects.
Many studies have attempted to test traditional acupuncture without a physiologic rationale, but proposing a hypothesis for how acupuncture might work is good science and costs nothing; a rationale can help investigators to develop a causal hypothesis, choose an appropriate control and rule out placebo effects.
"I don't think one has to tap into the Wilsonian streak in American foreign policy in order to find a rationale for helping the Kurds," he said.
But with the United States seen in many quarters as a global bully, and the need for an image makeover becoming obvious, his administration developed a national security rationale for helping the poorest countries avoid turning into breeding grounds or safe harbors for terrorists.
This is the rationale that helps the people at Qpass and Cha! get out of bed in the morning.
As a basal step in deciphering peptidergic circuits, the data provides a morphological rationale to help identify candidate pre- and postsynaptic neurons by analysis of overlapping projections.
Provision of the supporting evidence and rationale should help to facilitate successful implementation of the JE surveillance standards in JE-endemic countries which will in turn enable better understanding of disease burden and the impact of control programs.
It will therefore continue to be important to identify biological markers that provide scientific rationale to help guide treatment choices that optimize therapeutic outcomes for this challenging and diverse group of patients.
