Of course, if we can assess criminals for their propensity to reoffend, we can in theory assess any individual in society for his or her criminal propensity making it possible to get ahead of the problem by stopping crime before it starts.
This, the theory goes, would bolster variety in an individual's offspring above and beyond the variation already provided by sexual reproduction.
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This, combined with electronic fingerprinting at stations, meant that each vote could, in theory at least, be matched to an individual.
In theory, government can reduce the harm one individual or a group of individuals in league with one another can do to other innocent individuals by selectively calibrating its feeding on targeted hosts intensely sapping the freedom and vitality and perhaps even the life of wrongdoers and potential wrongdoers by heightened feeding on them.
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Targeting individual customers with personalized offers is a decades-old marketing theory that has only recently blossomed, thanks to new technology.
Dow and William Peter Hamilton so that he could present Dow Theory in a way that could be used by the individual investor.
Like natural selection and germs, the discovery of cancer stem cells illustrates how the most fruitful scientific findings are often not those of individual experiments, however intriguing, but those that organise knowledge into theory.
The gun issue shows the split in the American polity between those who believe in individual rights and our Constitution, and those who are seduced by the theory of benevolent, omnipotent government.
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CAPM, a cornerstone of corporate-finance theory, is more commonly used to analyse large portfolios of shares than individual companies.
But this one-size-fits-all portfolio does not agree with financial theory, which holds that each investor should take into account his or her individual economic situation.
Once most scientists agree that the rival theory should replace the old paradigm, a paradigm shift has occurred, even though some individual scientists may remain intransigent and continue to noisily defend the old paradigm.
Demand and supply theory suggests that if too many individuals pursue the same career, it will become increasingly difficult for each individual to find a job.
The theory of the tragedy of the commons is well-known: it is in the interests of any individual to add to his stock of animals on common land, even if that leads to further degradation.
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