In any case what would be the point or the theoretical utility of discovering what is hidden?
Its theoretical utility and minimal costs, including decreased opportunity costs, makes it the gold standard.4 But there are also limits to its promise and a variety of reasons why it may not work.
It has specifically lived up to its theoretical utility as means to provide insight into the biological roles of genes that is not biased by presumptions of their function.
A non-reductive account of possible worlds, according to Lewis, brings net theoretical utility: the ontological cost is compensated by a theoretical gain, given the variety of ontological, semantic, and conceptual explanations allowed by our taking the notion of possible world seriously.
Therefore, taking into account prior work on seasonal influenza vaccination uptake [50], [51], extending the TPB could provide theoretical utility for understanding public decision on taking pH1N1 vaccination.
Therapy for this heterogeneous group of often devastating diseases is largely relegated to vitamin and supplement cocktails of theoretical utility whose objective efficacy is difficult to monitor but which commonly appear to have minimal clinical benefit (Parikh et al, 2009).
Consequently, there is interest in the ability to predict GDM in early pregnancy (5), and because AIT is the most resource-intensive management component in GDM, a risk-prediction tool that identifies patients likely to need AIT would have theoretical utility.
If they have not, then the meta-theoretical utility of the synthetic/analytic distinction is once again be called into question.
Finally, we use three different theoretical approaches – utility theory, p-metric distance functions and bargaining theory – to obtain the social optimum from the set of compromise consensuses.
We propose a theoretical model (interdependent utilities), predicting the implication of this effect for choice behavior.
