functional approach
1Functional programming — In computer science, functional programming is a programming paradigm that treats computation as the evaluation of mathematical functions and avoids state and mutable data. It emphasizes the application of functions, in contrast with the… …
2Functional Analytic Psychotherapy — (FAP) is an approach to clinical psychotherapy that uses a Radical Behaviorist position informed by B.F. Skinner s analysis of Verbal Behavior. Although sufficient for use alone, this approach is offered as something that may be practiced in… …
3Functional medicine — is personalized medicine that deals with primary prevention and underlying causes, instead of symptoms, for serious chronic disease. [Jones DS, ed. Textbook of Functional Medicine. Gig Harbor, WA: The Institute for Functional Medicine; 2005. ISBN …
4Functional psychology — or functionalism refers to a general psychological approach that views mental life and behavior in terms of active adaptation to the person s environment [Gary R. VandenBos, ed., APA Dictionary of Psychology (2006). Washington, DC: American… …
5Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records — or FRBR, sometimes pronounced (IPA pronunciation: IPA| [fɝbɚ] ) is a conceptual entity relationship model developed by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) that relates user tasks of retrieval and access in …
6Functional ecology — is the branch of ecology that focuses on the roles, or functions, that species play in the community or ecosystem in which they occur. In this approach, physiological, anatomical, and life history characteristics of the species are emphasized.… …
7Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery — (FESS) is a surgical modality for some diseases of the nose and paranasal sinuses. It is a relatively recent surgical procedure that uses the help of nasal endoscopes (which make use of Hopkins rod lens telescopes): these are endoscopes which… …
8Functional analysis — For functional analysis as used in psychology, see the functional analysis (psychology) article. Functional analysis is the branch of mathematics, and specifically of analysis, concerned with the study of vector spaces and operators acting upon… …
9Functional integration — You may also be looking for functional integration (neurobiology) or functional integration (sociology). Functional integration is a collection of results in mathematics and physics where the domain of an integral is no longer a region of space,… …
10Functional Discourse Grammar — Die Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) ist eine neuere Grammatiktheorie. Von führenden Vertretern der Functional Grammar (FG) wurde sie im ersten Jahrzehnt des 3. Jahrtausends vor allem in Amsterdam in Weiterentwicklung der FG entwickelt. Über… …
