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It was also known to Galileo, who noted that Renaissance engineers who followed successful methods of building ships and moving obelisks were often surprised by the spontaneous failures when tried with larger ships and obelisks.
Specifically, they should expand individual and collective apprentice-based and vocational programs, modernize their methods for measuring performance, and intensify their efforts to include recent research on the benefits of cognitive diversity and “superadditivity” in internal and external communications.
These early initiatives can serve as important testing grounds for new curricula and methods.
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, elections are the worst way to select a political leader, save for all other methods that have been tried – and nowhere more so than in America.
Meanwhile, online learning can facilitate the introduction of new and innovative teaching and learning methods.
As open economies, Belgium and the Netherlands have both been interested in developing the internal market, while differing in their methods.
From a microeconomic perspective, a sudden exchange-rate shock and sharp increase in oil prices impedes firms’ ability to adjust their technology and production methods to meet new cost conditions, eventually undermining TFP growth.
The US Defense Department’s microelectronics initiative required not only new materials and circuits, but also new methods of fabrication.
Just as the telephone did not supplant the postal system, e-mail sits alongside prior methods of communication.
Moreover, innovative funding methods are being developed for local media.
Recently, the Copenhagen Consensus, whose purpose is to weigh the costs and benefits of different solutions to the world’s biggest problems, commissioned new research into the merits of different methods of combating terrorism.
Northern European countries, in particular, cherish their local standards and spurn the thought of eating chlorine-disinfected chicken or genetically modified fruits and vegetables, even if there is no scientific evidence that these production methods pose a health threat.
The same people and governing methods that the “Rose Revolution” of November 2003 sought to defeat have reemerged at the center of power by using their personal networks, which extend outside Georgia’s borders, as well as their tremendous wealth and finely honed skills at political scheming and manipulation.
The philosophy of sumud is rooted in Palestinians’ implacable belief in the righteousness of their cause and the justness of their methods.
When firms hit by reduced demand stop hiring for a time, some people who would have joined established firms use their situation to dream up new products or methods and organize startups to develop them.
Can new products and methods fare well in the market if demand is deficient?
When it comes to overseeing intelligence agencies pledged to protect their sources and methods, the challenges are obvious.
Tax codes written for an analog economy and statistical methods that fail to capture real wealth will not do.
And it has not been strengthened by the Libyan revolution, but rather by the failure of state-building in North Mali, the absence of post-conflict reconciliation and reintegration in Algeria, and a lack of accountability for a shadowy Algerian security establishment whose brutal methods have proved woefully inadequate to the challenge.
For example, a Spanish company that builds replicable four-story multifamily buildings can construct 5-10 times more units than it could with traditional construction methods, but employ the same amount of labor.
Unfortunately, many of these methods cannot be applied to the most important questions facing economic policymakers.
All too often, the path to easy influence is to impugn the other side’s motives and methods, rather than recognizing and challenging an opposing argument’s points.
In other situations, it will mean live-streaming acts of civil disobedience and hoping that authoritarians’ brutal methods will be exposed to a large enough audience through social media.
Bringing the picture into sharper focus through improved data collection does not mean simply imitating the labor-tracking methods used in OECD countries, where the informal economy does not account for such a high share of employment.
Instead, African governments, with the help of private-sector actors, must develop methods for understanding how the informal economy works and how it can be improved.
The obsession of politicians with imposing the rule of law through iron-fisted methods, it seems, brings about only more insecurity for their citizens.
Beyond building bridges and creating gadgets, engineers can help improve the quality and affordability of health care around the world, by developing faster methods for diagnosing diseases and delivering medical services.
These efforts have generally focused on methods for improving water sanitation and energy delivery.
Yet the investment in drip irrigation is generally more expensive than less-efficient irrigation methods.
Years later, as part of UBS Optimus Foundation-funded research into household-level insect-control methods, my team found that a novel technology – durable wall linings soaked with the insecticide deltamethrin – was effective at killing sandflies for up to a year after application.
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