Art serves as a tool of education, or indoctrination, or enculturation.

The " Palestrina style " now serves as a basis for college Renaissance counterpoint classes, thanks in large part to the efforts of the 18th century composer and theorist Johann Joseph Fux, who, in a book called Gradus ad Parnassum ( Steps to Parnassus, 1725 ), set about codifying Palestrina's techniques as a pedagogical tool for students of composition.

In response, SETI advocates note, among other things, that the Drake Equation was never a hypothesis, and so never intended to be testable, nor to be " solved "; it was merely a clever representation of the agenda for the world's first scientific SETI meeting in 1961, and it serves as a tool in formulating testable hypotheses.

The commission, in a cooperative venture with other Great Lakes agencies and organizations, hosts the Great Lakes Information Network ( GLIN ), an Internet-based network that serves as a decision-support tool for those who make, implement or otherwise influence public policy in the region.

Émile Durkheim stresses the importance of rituals as a tool to achieve " collective effervescence ", which serves to help unify society.

ALEC also serves as a networking tool among state legislators, allowing them to research the handling and " best practices " of policy in other states.

Indeed, " some social theorist have argued that the late-20th century preoccupation with the self serves as a tool of social control: soothing political unrest ... one's own pursuit of self-invention.

It is necessary to examine the remote control software functionality that best serves organizations that need a highly secure tool that crosses all platforms and devices and is completely scalable in any environment.

A vocabulary usually develops with age, and serves as a useful and fundamental tool for communication and acquiring knowledge.

It also serves as an information tool that allows policy makers understand the nature and complexity of health care delivery.

In chemistry, MD serves as an important tool in protein structure determination and refinement using experimental tools such as X-ray crystallography and NMR.

The genre serves not only as a tool that “ makes audiences move, but that moves audiences – toward education, civil action, and peaceful change .” It empowers them with the power of a voice in society without being forced to use guns or violence.

The program serves as an education tool to provide insight into behavior practices for people camping on the backcountry.

The NPL, which appears as Appendix B to the NCP, primarily serves as an information and management tool for the EPA, and helps the EPA prioritize sites for cleanup.

Astrophysical relativity serves as a tool to gauge the properties of large scale structures for which gravitation plays a significant role in physical phenomena investigated and as the basis for black hole ( astro ) physics and the study of gravitational waves.

NLETS potentially serves as a better tool to search for minor misdemeanors and traffic violations that would not be in the NCIC.

Some Trainers carry a Pokédex with them, which serves as identification as well as a tool for keeping track of the Pokémon a Trainer has seen or caught.

UNRWA serves as a crucial tool of legitimacy for the Palestinian refugee issue — as long as the office is active, how could anyone question the Palestinian refugee problem?

In some applications molten flux also serves as a heat transfer medium, facilitating heating of the joint by the soldering tool or molten solder.

The Center also serves as a learning tool for students in the Child Development program.

The OID Control Utility ( OIDCTL ) serves as a command-line tool for starting and stopping the OID server.

The notebook serves as an organizational tool, a memory aid, and can also have a role in protecting any intellectual property that comes from the research.

The method serves as an important tool for determining the critical stress points in a material and is often used for determining stress concentration factors in irregular geometries.

Internet is able to provide an opportunity for interaction, and serves as a prerequisite in the deliberative process as a research tool.

An understanding of the new role of residential association in an industrial society serves to illuminate the forces which have fashioned the iron cage of conformity which imprisons the churches in their suburban captivity.

Paul claims that speaking in tongues edifies the person speaking ( 1 Cor 14: 4 ), that it is the action of a praying speaker's spirit ( as opposed his or her understanding, see 1 Cor 14: 14 ), and that praying in tongues serves both to bless God as well as to give thanks ( 1 Cor 14: 16-17 ).

In Dewey's article " The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology " which appeared in Psychological Review in 1896, he reasons against the traditional stimulus-response understanding of the reflex arc in favor of a " circular " account in which what serves as " stimulus " and what as " response " depends on how one considers the situation, and defends the unitary nature of the sensory motor circuit.

In some universities, a qualifying exam serves to test both the breadth and depth of a student's understanding of mathematics ; the students who pass are permitted to work on a doctoral dissertation.

As with the other axioms, an implicit understanding of causation is derived from one's primary observations of causal connections among entities even before it is verbally identified, and serves as the basis of further knowledge.

The retreat of Icelandic glacier Múlajökull, which is an outlet glacier of Hofsjökull, recently exposed a 50 drumlin cluster, which serves as the basis for improved understanding of drumlin formation.

There are two types of military history, although almost all texts have elements of both: descriptive history that serves to chronicle conflicts without offering any statements about the causes, nature of conduct, the ending and effects of a conflict ; and analytical history that seeks to offer statements about the causes, nature, ending and aftermath of conflicts as a means of deriving knowledge and understanding of conflicts as a whole, and prevent repetition of mistakes in future, to suggest better concepts or methods in employing forces, or to advocate the need for new technology.

Contrary to the Western concept of history, where the knowledge of the past serves to bring a better understanding of the present, the purpose of oral literature is rather to justify and legitimatise the present situation.

Under a memorandum of understanding, the Prince George's County Police Department serves as the secondary responding law enforcement agency for the town, and the primary investigating agency for most serious crimes, such as homicide or rape.

In his Introduction to An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Locke defines idea as " that term which, I think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks, I have used it to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking ; and I could not avoid frequently using it.

The Foundation not only functions as his official Estate, but also serves " to encourage the study and understanding of Barnett Newman's life and works.

Or, more accurately, fiction serves as a lens to focus what we know of life and bring its realities into sharper, clearer understanding for us.

A third commonly held understanding of the ritual is that aarti serves as a reminder to stay vigilant so that the forces of material pleasures and desires cannot overcome the individual.

Our understanding of our own sun serves as a guide to our understanding of other stars.

Robert Frager, of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, and James Fadiman, of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, provide an account of the contributions of many of the key historic figures who have shaped and developed transpersonal psychology ( in addition to discussing and explaining important concepts and theories germane to transpersonal psychology ) in a textbook on personality theories which serves to promote an understanding of the discipline in classroom settings.

Though this is a loose metaphor, it serves to illustrate the view that each individual subject has their own understanding of right and wrong.

The Cell serves up some of the most gruesomely misogynistic imagery in years, then ends with a bid for understanding.

This Memorandum of Understanding, currently in effect, serves to increase international understanding and coordination for the protection of certain migratory sharks.

The KCCO has an " official memorandum of understanding ... with the Department of Ophthalmology and Kilimanjaro Christian Medical College under which the KCCO assumes or shares responsibility ( subject to specific funding grants ) for many teaching activities, running workshops and seminars, supervising the ... Resource Centre for Eastern Africa, serving in an advisory capacity for planning Eye Department services, conducting epidemiologic and clinical research in prevention or treatment of vision loss or related fields, and serves on committees ".

The facility is currently operated by the University of Memphis and serves as a gateway for understanding archaeology and the interpretation of Native American history.

Instead there is a healthy cross-pollination of ideas and logical debate that serves to refine each school's understanding of Hinduism.

The Active Society serves as a starting point for comments on theories and methods in the social sciences which may contribute to the understanding of how societies become ' masters of themselves.

Practical understanding of this is that is a subgraph that is matched from ( see subgraph isomorphism problem ), and after a match is found, is replaced with in host graph where serves as an interface, containing the nodes and edges which are preserved when applying the rule.