Coker College readies undergraduates for personal and professional success through a distinctive four-year program that emphasizes a practical application of the liberal arts, as well as hands-on and discussion-based learning within and beyond the classroom.

Herman Daly, a leading voice in the discipline of ecological economics, emphasizes that although Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage is one of the most elegant theories in economics, its application to the present day is illogical: " Free capital mobility totally undercuts Ricardo's comparative advantage argument for free trade in goods, because that argument is explicitly and essentially premised on capital ( and other factors ) being immobile between nations.

At WPI, the opportunity to complete significant project work off campus is an integral element of an academic program that emphasizes the practical application of knowledge to meaningful technical and societal problems.

In general, the work of engineering technologists focuses on the applied and practical application of engineering principles, whereas the work of engineers emphasizes the theoretical aspects of mathematical, scientific and engineering principles.

Coker offers a four-year program that emphasizes a practical application of the liberal arts as well as hands-on and discussion-based learning within and beyond the classroom.

Adaptive management as a systematic process for improving environmental management policies and practices is the traditional application however, the adaptive management framework can also be applied to other sectors seeking sustainability solutions such as business and community development. Adaptive management as a strategy emphasizes the need to change with the environment and to learn from doing.

* Nutrition-This course emphasizes basic nutritional principles and concepts, their application to personal health and relationship between food and its use by the human body for energy, regulation, structure, and optimal health.

North American and European ratings for contactors follow different philosophies, with North American general purpose machine tool contactors generally emphasizing simplicity of application while definite purpose and European rating philosophy emphasizes design for the intended life cycle of the application.

Rissho Kosei-kai emphasizes the practical application of the teachings.

Anderson's 1958 textbook, An Introduction to Multivariate Analysis, educated a generation of theorists and applied statisticians ; Anderson's book emphasizes hypothesis testing via likelihood ratio tests and the properties of power functions: Admissibility, unbiasedness and monotonicity.

" The agency emphasizes that speculators serve important market functions, but defines excessive speculation as harmful to the proper functioning of futures markets.

Thus, the first step in evaluating organizational effectiveness is to understand the organization itself-how it functions, how it is structured, and what it emphasizes.

It is the evolution function when the control inputs ( or source term, or forcing inputs ) are Heaviside functions: the notation emphasizes this concept showing H ( t ) as a subscript.

Whatever pole of this contrast one emphasizes and whatever the tension between these two approaches to understanding the artistic imagination, it will be readily seen that they are not mutually exclusive, that they belong together.

These open, unstructured or loosely structured traditions contrast with British Traditional Wicca, which emphasizes secrecy and initiatory lineage.

Stylistically, the placement of this passage also serves to heighten the contrast with the description of the plague in Athens immediately following it, which graphically emphasizes the horror of human mortality, thereby conveying a powerful sense of verisimilitude:

By contrast, Buddhism does not encourage or discourage marriage, although it does teach how one might live a happily married life and emphasizes that marital vows are not to be taken lightly.

News sources, collectively, described as alternative media provide reporting which emphasizes a self-defined " non-corporate view " as a contrast to the points of view expressed in corporate media and government-generated news releases.

" Katherine Crawford, by contrast, emphasizes the problems Henry's reputation encountered because of his failure to produce an heir and the presence of his powerful mother at court, combined with his enemies insistence on conflating patronage with favoritism and luxury with decadence.

A balustrade fringing the roof emphasizes the emphatic horizontality of the whole against which the vertical lines of the orders rise in majestic contrast.

The logic: since one of the characteristics of religious orthodoxy, is the submission to the authority of its tradition, the individual is expected to conform to all of its dictates, whereas modernity, by contrast, emphasizes a measure of personal autonomy as well as rationalist truth.

Griffor emphasizes that in conventional discussion “ the self-defensive activity of each participant's idiosyncracy prevents listening ” and that, in contrast, giving full attention to what the other participants mean can free the mind from socio-cultural accumulation, allow a free flow of meaning between people in a dialogue and give rise to shared perception and the creation of shared meaning in the sense of shared significance, intention, purpose and value.

This effect usually hides details, causes a stronger contrast between light and dark, creates silhouettes and emphasizes lines and shapes.

The Bauer version emphasizes the extreme contrast between hairline and main stroke.

* Charles Blattberg has written two books defending an approach to politics that emphasizes conversation, in contrast to negotiation, as the preferred means of resolving conflict.

Titian's version ( illustration c. 1515 ) emphasizes the contrast between the innocent girlish face and the brutally severed head.

In contrast to convergence, speakers might also engage in divergent speech, with which an individual person emphasizes the social distance between him-or herself and other speakers by using speech with linguistic features characteristic of his or her own group.

Classical republicanism in contrast emphasizes Tacitus's concern that power and luxury can corrupt individuals and destroy liberty, as Tacitus perceived in the transformation of the Roman republic into an empire ; virtue for classical republicans is a shield against this sort of corruption and a means to preserve the good life one has, rather than a means by which to achieve the good life one does not yet have.

By contrast, popular science emphasizes uniqueness and generality, taking a tone of factual authority absent from the scientific literature.

In contrast to today's concept of surgery as a profession that emphasizes cleanliness and conscientiousness, at the beginning of the 20th century the mark of a busy and successful surgeon was the profusion of blood and fluids on his clothes.

Malory tries to contrast virtue and love with desire and failure as he further emphasizes the instability of the relationship between Lancelot and Guinevere and, ultimately, the text itself.

In contrast, the positivist approach to anthropology emphasizes the necessity for

Second, its focus is toward the present and the future, in contrast to drive theory, which emphasizes past learning.

In contrast to some interpretations of quantum mechanics, particularly the Copenhagen interpretation, the framework does not include " wavefunction collapse " as a relevant description of any physical process, and emphasizes that measurement theory is not a fundamental ingredient of quantum mechanics.

Empiricism emphasizes the role of experience and evidence, especially sensory perception, in the formation of ideas, over the notion of innate ideas or tradition in contrast to, for example, rationalism which relies upon reason and can incorporate innate knowledge.

In contrast to the Edinburgh School, which emphasizes historical approaches, the Bath School emphasizes microsocial studies of laboratories and experiments.

BASIC is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages whose design philosophy emphasizes ease of use ; the name is an acronym from Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.

John C. Reynolds emphasizes that formal specification languages are just as much programming languages as are the languages intended for execution.

Python is a general-purpose, interpreted high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability.

The class emphasizes not only programming, but also presentation skills.

The International Film Festival Rotterdam management emphasizes diversity in its film programming and on building relationships with and between film-makers and audiences.

" To make a difference in the lives of our members by developing the potential of each individual through innovative programming, which emphasizes leadership development, service to others, academic achievement and continued personal growth for women, with a commitment to friendship and the future based on the sisterhood, values and traditions of the past.

The station, like its former sister stations WLJT, WSJK ( now known as WETP ) and WTCI, emphasizes programming of local interest in addition to carrying a full schedule of PBS programs.

CRS emphasizes the empowerment of partners and beneficiaries in programming decisions.