Prescriptive

Examples of Prescriptive in the following topics:

• A Taxonomy of Knowledge

  • Joel Mokyr classifies knowledge as propositional and prescriptive knowledge.
  • Prescriptive knowledge is instructional or knowledge about techniques about how to do something (ibid).
  • Prescriptive knowledge (λ) is the knowledge about how to do something; it is technique or instructional knowledge.
  • The addition to this prescriptive knowledge is called an "invention. " Prescriptive knowledge is not right or wrong it is successful or unsuccessful.
  • Once you know why techniques (prescriptive knowledge) work, (propositional

• Technology

  • Technology is what Joel Mokyr calls instructional or prescriptive knowledge.
  • This prescriptive knowledge is based on propositional knowledge about the nature of things (Mokyr, pp 4-6).
  • Prescriptive knowledge about how we do things, "technology," is not limited to machines.
  • Prescriptive knowledge about the use of organizational structure to achieve an objective is, in a sense, a form of technology.

• Stimulants

  • Stimulants induce temporary improvements in mental and/or physical functions and are commonly used as prescription or recreational drugs.
  • Stimulants are widely used throughout the world as prescription medicines and as illicit substances of recreational use or abuse.
  • Some may be legally available only by prescription.

• Environmental Impacts on Prenatal Development

  • There are several known teratogens that expectant mothers are advised to avoid during pregnancy, including alcohol, prescription and/or illegal drugs, and tobacco.
  • Use of any type of drug—whether illegal, prescription, or over-the-counter—can be dangerous during pregnancy.
  • Prescription drugs taken during pregnancy such as streptomycin, tetracycline, some antidepressants, progestin, synthetic estrogen, Accutane, thalidomide, and diethylstilbestrol (known as DES)—as well as over-the-counter drugs such as diet pills—can also result in teratogenic outcomes for the developing fetus.
  • Determining the extent to which adverse outcomes are caused by antidepressant use or by depression—or a combination of both—is difficult to measure; it is also important to factor in the negative consequences of a mother going off prescription antidepressants during pregnancy, which may adversely effect her health in other ways.

• Introduction to the Economic Problem

  • Propositional knowledge provides the basis for instructional or prescriptive knowledge (Mokyr, pp 4-6).
  • Technology or prescriptive knowledge is a set of instructions to about how to use resources to attain objectives.

• Style and Tendency

  • "Avoid parallel fifths" is a prescriptive instruction based on that descriptive observation: because parallel fifths occur rarely in this style, and only in specific cases, avoid them in your own strict-style compositions until we have a chance to engage those specific cases—all the while remembering that other styles may have different tendencies.
  • With this in mind, as we progress in our study of voice-leading, we will encounter more exceptions to the prescriptive rules, even in strict-style composition, and our hard-and-fast strictures will transition more and more into the language of tendency.

• Introduction

  • Propositional knowledge provides the basis for instructional or prescriptive knowledge.
  • (Mokyr, pp 4-6) Technology or prescriptive knowledge is a set of instructions to about how to use resources to attain objectives.

• Health Care Reform

  • In 2003 Congress passed the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act , which President George W.
  • Part of this legislation included filling gaps in prescription-drug coverage left by the Medicare Secondary Payer Act that was enacted in 1980.
  • The Associated Press reported that, as a result of PPACA's provisions concerning the Medicare Part D coverage gap (between the initial coverage limit and the catastrophic coverage threshold in the Medicare Part D prescription drug program), individuals falling in this "donut hole" would save about 40 percent.

• Cost and Prevention of Resistance

  • Patients should follow prescription directions and should not share or take medicine that was prescribed for someone else; these virtues should be strictly practiced.

• Gender Discrimination

  • Many of the stereotypes that result in gender discrimination are not only descriptive, but also prescriptive beliefs about how men and women "should" behave.