Some articles on methods, method:
... Its focus is not only on methods of promoting economic growth and structural change but also on improving the potential for the mass of the population, for example, through health and education and ... economics involves the creation of theories and methods that aid in the determination of policies and practices and can be implemented at either the domestic or international level ... This may involve restructuring market incentives or using mathematical methods like inter-temporal optimization for project analysis, or it may involve a mixture of ...
... A method based on proximity matrices is one where the data is presented to the algorithm in the form of a similarity matrix or a distance matrix ... These methods all fall under the broader class of metric multidimensional scaling ... fact a mapping) are examples of metric multidimensional scaling methods ...
... Researchers have developed training-methods for artificial-intelligence devices as well ... Evolutionary algorithms, including genetic programming and other methods of machine learning, use a system of feedback based on "fitness functions" to allow computer programs to determine how well an entity ... The methods construct a series of programs, known as a “population” of programs, and then automatically test them for "fitness", observing how well they perform the intended task ...
... Fly fishing for trout is a very popular sport, which can be done using any of the various methods and any of the general types of flies ... Many of the techniques and presentations of fly fishing were first developed in fishing for trout ...
... Ruysch but his liquor balsamicum preservative was kept a secret to the grave and his methods were not widely copied ... Contemporary embalming methods advanced markedly during the height of the British Empire and the American Civil War, which once again involved many foreign officials ... and which became the foundation for modern methods of embalming, replacing previous methods based on alcohol and the use of arsenical salts ...
Famous quotes containing the word methods:
“In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a “dictator” substitutes himself for the central committee.”
—Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)
“I conceive that the leading characteristic of the nineteenth century has been the rapid growth of the scientific spirit, the consequent application of scientific methods of investigation to all the problems with which the human mind is occupied, and the correlative rejection of traditional beliefs which have proved their incompetence to bear such investigation.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“I think it is a wise course for laborers to unite to defend their interests.... I think the employer who declines to deal with organized labor and to recognize it as a proper element in the settlement of wage controversies is behind the times.... Of course, when organized labor permits itself to sympathize with violent methods or undue duress, it is not entitled to our sympathy.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)