Sentence examples for the current prescriptive from inspiring English sources

The current prescriptive approaches for evaluating fire resistance of reinforced concrete beams under standard fire exposure have a number of drawbacks and do not provide realistic performance assessment.

Due to the restrictions of the current prescriptive design methods and standards, structural and material engineers sought to find an innovative design method to implement creative and novel approaches in designing.

This paper presents an approach toward performance-based durability design of concrete structures based on a simplified diffusion-based model, which overcomes some of the limitations of the current prescriptive rules of existing design standards.

As such we have re-evaluated the current prescriptive approach to the management of KD in the light of the published literature, adding corticosteroids into primary therapy for severe and IVIG unresponsive cases; and suggesting a role for anti-TNF α if systemic inflammation persists despite IVIG, aspirin and corticosteroids.

The current New Zealand prescriptive code for fire safety allows unlimited firecell floor area if at least 15% of the roof area is designed for "effective fire venting".

Current prescriptive code requirements for these systems are evaluated in typical medium-rise steel and concrete building frames.

Current prescriptive design provisions are moving towards performance-based design approaches in which system-level probabilistic measures are used to explicitly describe performance.

London et al [ 47] argue that the current non-prescriptive nature of guidelines regarding HIV and reproduction in South Africa increases the risk of the views of health workers influencing how a person's right to choice is negotiated in a clinic interaction.

The current approaches to developing comprehensive prescriptive QA protocols can be prohibitively time consuming and cost ineffective and may sometimes fail to adequately safeguard patients.

We considered these suggestions indicative of a general dissatisfaction with the current research paradigm, but not necessarily prescriptive of specific and comprehensive solutions.

Regardless of the current deficit of empirical evidence for prescriptive dietary advice to treat depression, it is recognized that diet has a major impact on comorbid medical conditions that are exceedingly more common in people diagnosed with depression, including cardiovascular disease and metabolic disorders [ 48], and the precautionary principle should guide practice.