Holistic education — is a philosophy of education based on the premise that each person finds identity, meaning, and purpose in life through connections to the community, to the natural world, and to spiritual values such as compassion and peace. Holistic education… … Wikipedia
Holistic health — is a philosophy of medical care that views physical and mental aspects of life as closely interconnected and equally important approaches to treatment. While frequently associated with alternative medicine, it is also increasingly used in… … Wikipedia
Holistic management — A term that describes systems thinking approach to managing land resources that builds biodiversity, improves production, generates financial strength, and improves the quality of life for those who use it. Coined by Allan Savory, and later… … Wikipedia
Newton's method — In numerical analysis, Newton s method (also known as the Newton–Raphson method), named after Isaac Newton and Joseph Raphson, is a method for finding successively better approximations to the roots (or zeroes) of a real valued function. The… … Wikipedia
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Secant method — In numerical analysis, the secant method is a root finding algorithm that uses a succession of roots of secant lines to better approximate a root of a function f .The methodThe secant method is defined by the recurrence relation:x {n+1} = x n… … Wikipedia
Bisection method — A few steps of the bisection method applied over the starting range [a1;b1]. The bigger red dot is the root of the function. The bisection method in mathematics is a root finding method which repeatedly bisects an interval and then selects a… … Wikipedia
Dorn method — The Dorn method is a form of manual, holistic alternative therapy used to correct claimed misalignments in the spinal column and other joints. In its theoretical approach, it is somewhat related to chiropractic and osteopathy, although it is… … Wikipedia
Buteyko method — The Buteyko method or Buteyko Breathing Technique is a holistic health philosophy, primarily for the treatment of asthma, that includes a set of breathing exercises developed by the late Russian doctor Konstantin Pavlovich Buteyko (Russian:… … Wikipedia
Shooting method — In numerical analysis, the shooting method is a method for solving a boundary value problem by reducing it to the solution of an initial value problem. The following exposition may be clarified by this illustration of the shooting method.For a… … Wikipedia
