direct approach
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdirectandapproach
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direct
adjective
uk/daɪˈrekt/us/daɪˈrekt/
going in a straight line towards somewhere or someone without stopping or ...
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approach
noun
uk/əˈprəʊtʃ/us/əˈproʊtʃ/
a way of considering or ...
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(Definition ofdirectandapproachfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Typically, the determining equations are nonlinear and highly-coupled, and they cannot be solved by adirectapproach.
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Onedirectapproachto this question is to screen parasite populations with specific antibodies.
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This is not only a moredirectapproachbut also it makes explicit the regularity of the cross-section solution in the head-sea limit.
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We propose a way of understanding the visual system differences from within thedirectapproach.
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Adirectapproachintroduces a new technological, social, and institutional arrangement to local communities.
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But dynamic decompositions of both inequality and poverty are a moredirectapproachto gaining insight into the factors associated with changes in those variables.
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In the following paragraphs, we denote the proposed method by "new method" and thedirectapproachby "conventional method".
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The process of slow healing may also fill important functions that the moredirectapproachof erasure would cancel out.
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Our second point then, is that these differences can be understood as a division of function within thedirectapproach.
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The other important misrepresentation of thedirectapproachis the claim that information pickup is largely an unlearned process.
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Fortunately, there is a better, moredirectapproach.
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Local leaders, on the other hand, may seek to bypass the parties by adirectapproachto municipal authorities and government agencies.
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Thedirectapproachinterprets regular expressions as recipes for building sets.
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In fact, the authors are careful to point out the paradoxes involved in a toodirectapproachto the acquisition of wisdom.
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Detection and conditional averaging methods constitute a moredirectapproachto the study of recurring physical features.
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If this reasoning is right, then thedirectapproachstill holds up.
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Finally, a simulation of the current-current correlation function in the longwavelength limit would provide adirectapproachto compare with our analytic approach.
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During the course, they have been practising the basics of software synthesis and signal processing with adirectapproachto compositional applications.
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