effective mean

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Theoretically there is the challenge of contributing to current debates on how music is perceived, understood and used as an effective means of communication.
Inhibition of the function of quinone has already been shown to be an effective means of controlling these filarial parasites.
A rational agent not lacking in knowledge or power will choose the most effective means to his goals.
Identifying barriers to improving the process of discharging patients from hospital an approach for others seeking to employ more effective means of implementation.
On the whole, however, these algorithms provide an effective means of nominalization disambiguation.
The finding that large haemangiomas can have far-reaching effects highlights the need to find effective means to limit their growth.
Second, publicly defining the program as a national policy priority must have been regarded as an effective means of mobilizing huge amounts of foreign funding.
It is also useful to investigate the development of automatic access to explicit knowledge and effective means of enhancing processing automaticity.
It is certainly an effective means of presenting the material to the inexperienced student.
Accordingly, he organizes this chapter under a set of headings that provide an effective means of categorizing the mass of material that demands attention.
In-depth semistructured interviews with key informants are considered an effective means to collect relevant material for case studies (7).
All this, she claimed, constituted the most effective means of comprehending the moral environment of extreme poverty.
It also could be an effective means of curbing the power of corporations with financial stakes in the healthcare field.
Competition between jobbers was a useful instrument for holding down wages and an often effective means of breaking strikes.
These methods are the least effective means of dissemination.
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