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Scholars can become so trapped in their methods – in the language and assumptions of the accepted approach to their discipline – that their research becomes repetitive or trivial.
Then something exciting comes along from someone who was never involved with these methods – some new idea that attracts young scholars and a few iconoclastic old scholars, who are willing to learn a different science and its different research methods.
It is a dangerous and volatile mix, relying on principles and methods that led Russia’s empires – Czarist and Soviet – to failure and ruin.
Sadly, African governments have failed miserably in teaching farmers improved methods.
More controversially, the lower house of the Dutch parliament passed a law giving the Jewish and Islamic communities a year to provide evidence that animals slaughtered by traditional methods do not experience greater pain than those that are stunned before they are killed.
Putting in place a code that sets out clear standards for identifying conflicts of interest and robust methods for dealing with complaints about a leader’s behavior is crucial.
They permit the largely unregulated use of new varieties of plants and microorganisms that have been crafted with less precise and predictable techniques, under the pretense that they are somehow more “natural,” while stringently regulating – or even banning – those based on the most advanced knowledge and methods.
New and more sophisticated analytical tools are needed to understand these long-term effects, along with sufficient training to ensure that new methods are applied properly in the field.
In the post-colonial period, the methods are better disguised.
During heat waves, urban temperatures in India can be extreme even at night, making sleeping agonizing for those without proper shelter or modern cooling methods.
It is the breakdown of non-economistic, common-sense ways of valuing human activities –framing them in larger social contexts – that has led to today’s spurious methods of calculating pay.
Despite overwhelming support for this process, methods to do so are absent.
Developing new antibiotics and putting in place methods to extend the lifespans of existing medications will help maintain a supply of effective treatments.
The tools and methods of the discipline are not adequate to deal systematically with coercion as a way of acquiring and maximizing wealth.
The first type is their own sources and methods, which need to be safeguarded if they are to remain effective when gathering data.
General H.R. McMaster, Trump’s national security adviser, has affirmed that Trump revealed nothing to the Russians about the “sources and methods” used to acquire the intelligence discussed.
It captured many of Japan’s export markets; it imported and adapted Japanese technologies; it employed similar planning methods; and the chaebols are an outgrowth of Japan’s zaibatsu corporate model.
But while a small number of innovative professors are using such methods to reinvent their courses, the tremendous resistance they face from other faculty holds down the size of the market and makes it hard to justify the investments needed to produce more rapid change.
A person of integrity does not seek to prevail over his competitors by methods that give him an illegitimate advantage.
But I find their results persuasive, especially given that other authors, using completely different methods, have reached similar conclusions.
The television industry is not alone in failing to question and revise its traditional models, methods, and operations.
Even simple methods, like writing down and challenging every assumption on which a company has based its strategy, can yield valuable insights.
Europeans have a shared appraisal of many of the world’s problems, and often put forward common methods and strategies for coping with them.
To its credit, the British egg industry accepted the situation, and developed new and less cruel methods of keeping hens.
Indeed, by sharing knowledge, methods, and research with their peers and partners, organizations like the AfDB are better-placed to ensure that the highest standards and best practices are widely adopted.
An apology is the least that Australia can now offer, accompanied by a commitment to review its intelligence-gathering methods and priorities.
For example, multinational corporations use methods like transfer pricing (book-keeping of goods, services, and resources transferred between a single company’s branches or subsidiaries) to minimize tax liability on their profits from international operations.
It is the morale of the home front that must be boosted, when other methods appear to fail.
And Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft (among others) filter spam using everything from content analysis to sender behavior to various methods of authentication.
Despite some destination countries’ efforts to facilitate the migration of workers with particular skills, state-dictated screening methods cannot keep up with mutable labor markets.
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