Its main usefulness is the treatment of hyperkinetic movement disorders such as Huntington's disease and Tourette syndrome, rather than for conditions such as schizophrenia.

Once the usefulness of digitalis in regulating the human pulse was understood, it was employed for a variety of purposes, including the treatment of epilepsy and other seizure disorders, which are now considered to be inappropriate treatments.

Gabapentin is useful in the treatment of anxiety associated with bipolar disorder, but has limited usefulness in disorders such as social anxiety disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder, in treatment-resistant depression, and for insomnia.

While these elements are important to consider when working with FAS and have some usefulness in treatment, they are not alone sufficient to promote better outcomes.

Due to this issue, the usefulness of oral naltrexone in opioid dependence is limited by the low retention in treatment.

Usnea also has shown usefulness in the treatment of difficult to treat fish infections in aquariums and ponds ; in part due to the Usnic Acid for digestive internal infections or external infections, and as well for gill infections / stress due to Mucilage which is also contained in Usnea.

To extend the usefulness of early treatment, Pantridge went on to develop the portable defibrillator, and in 1965 installed his first version in a Belfast ambulance.

According to Marx, the treatment of labor as a commodity led to people valuing things more in terms of their price rather than their usefulness ( see commodity fetishism ), and hence to an expansion of the system of commodities.

Its ability to inhibit growth of tissue derived from the Müllerian ducts has raised hopes of usefulness in the treatment of a variety of medical conditions including endometriosis, adenomyosis, and uterine cancer.

Claims, based on local folk medicine, suggesting usefulness of the oil in the prevention and treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia may be backed by some studies showing clinically proven efficacy ( particularly along with Serenoa repens, saw palmetto, and Pygeum africanum ) according to the criteria of evidence-based medicine.

There are various treatment approaches which have had early trials or are proposed, none yet with convincing evidence of usefulness or safety for treatment or prevention including brimonidine, minocycline, curcumin,

The first results indicated the usefulness of abreugraphy: the screening of 758 asymptomatic and apparently sane individuals in July 1937 revealed that 44 of them had already tuberculosis lung lesions, which allowed for early treatment and a better survival.

It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).

Suffice it to say that the usefulness of the latter apportionment is questionable.

However, many have argued that the usefulness of these laws is vastly inadequate in terms of controlling government actions, largely because of institutional and systemic obstacles like a weak judiciary, poorly trained judges and lawyers, and corruption.

This is most likely due to their usefulness as pollinators and as producers of honey, their social nature, and their reputation for diligence.

The historic interest of the rotating bucket experiment is its usefulness in suggesting one can detect absolute rotation by observation of the shape of the surface of the water.

Also, the usefulness of comparative law for the sociology of law ( and vice versa ) is very large.

A yarn's usefulness is judged by several factors, such as its loft ( its ability to trap air ), its resilience ( elasticity under tension ), its washability and colorfastness, its hand ( its feel, particularly softness vs. scratchiness ), its durability against abrasion, its resistance to pilling, its hairiness ( fuzziness ), its tendency to twist or untwist, its overall weight and drape, its blocking and felting qualities, its comfort ( breathability, moisture absorption, wicking properties ) and its appearance, which includes its color, sheen, smoothness and ornamental features.

A. M. Tibbetts is one of the main critics of the NCTE, claiming that ' the Committee's very approach to the misuse of language and what it calls " doublespeak " may in the long run limit its usefulness '.

: But it is on the space where there is nothing that the usefulness of the wheel depends.

: But it is on the space where there is nothing that the usefulness of the vessel depends.

: And it is on these spaces where there is nothing that the usefulness of the house depends.

: Therefore just as we take advantage of what is, we should recognize the usefulness of what is not.

The usefulness of speaking of patterns is to have a common terminology for discussing the situations designers already see over and over.

Historically, the electron volt was devised as a standard unit of measure through its usefulness in electrostatic particle accelerator sciences because a particle with charge q has an energy E = qV after passing through the potential V ; if q is quoted in integer units of the elementary charge and the terminal bias in volts, one gets an energy in eV.

Ionizing radiation is hazardous to life ( hence its usefulness in sterilisation ); for this reason irradiation facilities have a heavily shielded irradiation room where the process takes place.

A yarn's usefulness for a knitting project is judged by several factors, such as its loft ( its ability to trap air ), its resilience ( elasticity under tension ), its washability and colorfastness, its hand ( its feel, particularly softness vs. scratchiness ), its durability against abrasion, its resistance to pilling, its hairiness ( fuzziness ), its tendency to twist or untwist, its overall weight and drape, its blocking and felting qualities, its comfort ( breathability, moisture absorption, wicking properties ) and of course its look, which includes its color, sheen, smoothness and ornamental features.

Value " in use " is the usefulness of this commodity, its utility.

The labor theory as an explanation for value contrasts with the subjective theory of value, which says that value of a good is not determined by how much labor was put into it but by its usefulness in satisfying a want and its scarcity.

It is important to recognise that even the most accurate maps sacrifice a certain amount of accuracy in scale to deliver a greater visual usefulness to its user.

Its usefulness in these applications is derived from its unique electrical and thermal insulating properties and its mechanical properties, which allow it to be cut, punched, stamped, and machined to close tolerances.

He was an ideal soldier, and shared to the fullest the esprit du corps of the army, but he cherished the civil institutions organized under the Constitution, and was only a soldier that these might be perpetuated in undiminished usefulness and honor.

However, on many other occasions, ( such as in the later Italian Wars, French Wars of Religion and the Eighty Years War ) their bravery and discipline came under severe criticism, and the Spanish elements of the Imperial army regularly deprecated the battlefield usefulness of the Landsknechts — it was said that the Duke of Alba hired them only to deny their services to the Dutch enemy, and put them on display to swell his numbers, not intending to fight with them.

And this is possibly explained by two things, the first and more positive view, is that the NAO is applying similar VFM criteria to itself as an example and form of assessment ; the second view is that the NAO being financed by public funds is also under a pressure to exhibit a need for its existence and the derived usefulness.

( 1994 ) that all the main characteristic of quality of models can all be grouped under 2 groups namely correctness and usefulness of a model, correctness ranges from the model correspondence to the phenomenon that is modeled to its correspondence to syntactical rules of the modeling and also it is independent of the purpose to which the model is used.

In order to maximize their combat effectiveness and strategic usefulness, air superiority fighters usually operate under the control / co-ordination of an Airborne Early Warning and Control ( AEW & C ) aircraft.

The usefulness of this study and of configuration analysis as well, declines in direct proportion to the dissemination of its use.

In a survey study by Jay and Erika Vora, the effectiveness of the TRC Commission was measured on a variety of levels, namely its usefulness in terms of bringing out the truth of what had happened during the apartheid regime, the feelings of reconciliation that could be linked to the Commission, and the positive effects both domestically and internationally that the Commission brought about in a variety of ways from the political environment of South Africa to the economic one.

Clear examples of the usefulness of autosegmental analysis came in early work from the detailed study of African tone languages, as well as the study of vowel and nasal harmony systems.

: After my father's appointment by his homeland as state official in the customs house of Bugia for the Pisan merchants who thronged to it, he took charge ; and in view of its future usefulness and convenience, had me in my boyhood come to him and there wanted me to devote myself to and be instructed in the study of calculation for some days.

A 31-patient study conducted by the Department of Urology at St Peter's Hospitals and the Institute of Urology in London investigating the usefulness of pumps to correct the penile curvature associated with Peyronie's disease found that " There was a clinically and statistically significant improvement in penile length, angle of curvature and pain after 12 weeks of using the vacuum pump ".

Its clinical usefulness requires further study.

A controlled study on the usefulness of shape notes was carried out in the 1950s by George H. Kyme with an experimental population consisting of fourth and fifth graders living in California.

A 2004 study challenged the usefulness of all but three of the criteria: perfectionism, rigidity and stubbornness, and miserliness.

This intuition, however, came after particular classes of quantum groups had already proved their usefulness in the study of the quantum Yang-Baxter equation and quantum inverse scattering method developed by the Leningrad School ( Ludwig Faddeev, Leon Takhtajan, Evgenii Sklyanin, Nicolai Reshetikhin and Korepin ) and related work by the Japanese School.

We believe that women are useful not only to sweep houses, wash dishes, make beds, and raise babies, but that they should stand behind the counter, study law or physic, or become good book-keepers and be able to do the business in any counting house, and this to enlarge their sphere of usefulness for the benefit of society at large.

A study published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology in May 2008 investigated the acceptability and usefulness of intrapulmonary THC administration using a vaporizer and pure THC instead of cannabis.

The multi-center COMBINE study has shown the usefulness of naltrexone in an ordinary, primary care setting, without adjunct psychotherapy.