This study was non-interventional and was not intended to be prescriptive of dose conversion ratios for clinical practice; nevertheless, the findings of the subgroup analyses may suggest that the conversion ratio should be <1.2, in a population clinically similar to the sample.
The industrial regulations that are embedded in Australian continuity models are prescriptive on aspects of work practices such as length of time worked and protected time off-call, which could further help explain the findings in this study.
The statement that rights are claims is prescriptive for, not descriptive of, usage.
Other predictions were prescriptive.
The American project used lovely bespoke forms (I confess to having a bit of a stationery fetish) but to keep costs down and to avoid being prescriptive about numbers of characters in that white heat of a moment when people emerge blinking out of the cinema, we opted for small square Fost-It notes.
Laying a square metre of road costs the World Bank over 50% more in countries where firms report paying bribes above 2% of the value of contracts than in ones where such payments are reported to be lower even though its anti-fraud measures are equally stringent the world over.Another reason donors are prescriptive is lack of faith in local bureaucrats' competence.
As a group comprising mainly British academics and doctors, who are therefore highly positionally specific, we are wary of being prescriptive about what to view as appropriate elements of the field of global health.
This also requires that analysis avoids being prescriptive about what sources of insecurity are, allowing for a multitude of possible answers.
"We learned in 1993 and 1994 that you cannot be prescriptive," said Gail Warden, president of the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, who was chairman of the panel that wrote the report.
Our proposed methodology for testing of non-target organisms is prescriptive with regard to the use of a procedure for selection of testing species and the development of proper testing protocols and risk hypotheses tailored to each case and receiving environment.
