Sentence examples for use normative from inspiring English sources

In addition to these perceived advantages and disadvantages of ecstasy use, normative measures have been used, especially subjective and descriptive norms, as well as perceived behavioural control over ecstasy use.

To use normative controls effectively, companies need to create an environment in which customers care about the impact of their behavior on others.

To simplify the thermal design of buildings, regulations use normative conductivity values based on constant, standardised conditions of temperature and moisture content, which are independent of ambient conditions.

There is no half-way house called "moral relativism," in which we continue to use normative vocabulary with the stipulation that it is to be understood as relativized to particular moral codes.

In saying that people use normative language to display an attitude to regularities of behaviour, the theorist did not need to do moral philosophy, and did not need to make any moral evaluations of the practice being described.

Also, in the legal language of case filing, courts use normative, neutral, and straightforward legal language, whereas ordinary people use living language that is irregular, strongly emotional, general, and filled with moral judgment.

All analyses were performed using both bSCr methods to define AKI (using the standard bSCr method or AKINstandard bSCr and by estimating bSCr using normative values in all patients or AKINall norms bSCr).

Schultz, P. W., Khazian, A. M. & Zaleski, A. C. Using normative social influence to promote conservation among hotel guests.

Therefore, we used normative landscape scenario method to develop two scenarios.

BPR characteristics and challenges are derived using normative literature and compared with two cases of public sector transformation in the UK and Netherlands.

Why should our response not be a more extreme, nihilistic one, according to which we stop using normative terms like "right" and "wrong" altogether, be it in their absolutist or relativist guises?