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Explanatory Concepts in Sociology
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Explanatory models of chronic pain
… The purpose of this study was to explore the explanatory models of individuals living in chronic pain. The study sample included twelve adults, eleven women and one man, who have been diagnosed with the chronic pain condition Fibromyalgia. Using Arthur Kleinman's explanatory models as a …
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Explanatory Models in Behavioral Endocrinology
… endocrinology. I claim this general structure of explanatory models can serve as a template for philosophical and historical investigations in other scientific fields.
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Towards explanatory pluralism in cognitive science
… relationships holding between the various explanatory frameworks currently used within cognitive science. The driving question of this philosophical investigation concerns the nature and structure of cognitive explanation. More specifically, I attempt to clarify whether the sort of …
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Extending Snomed to Include Explanatory Reasoning
… only standardized content, but also standardized explanatory knowledge for use in expert systems. This experiment consisted of four phases centered on the use of the controlled terminology-- Systemized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED). The first phase evaluated SNOMED's ability to express …
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General unsupervised explanatory opinion mining from text data
… a series of works in general unsupervised explanatory opinion mining from text data. We propose three new problems for further summarizing and understanding explanatory opinions and general unsupervised solutions for each problem. First, we propose (1) Explanatory Opinion Summarization …
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Mechanism and rationality : the case for explanatory incompatibilism
This thesis is an attempt to defend explanatory incompatibilism, the view that mechanistic and intentional explanations of behaviour are incompatible, against various sorts of objections which come in the form of rival compatibilist theories. In the first chapter the author outlines the prima facie …
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Caregiving in later life: an attachment explanatory model
… A series of regressions were used to test the explanatory model. Model variables included respondents’ psychosocial characteristics: sex, age, number of childhood separations from mother, current symbolic and physical proximity to mother, adult relationship with mother, emotional support, …
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Emotional Clarity and Childhood Depression: Antecedents and Explanatory Mechanisms
This study examined potential antecedents and consequences deficits in child emotional clarity. It was hypothesized that deficits in child emotional clarity would confer vulnerability to depressive symptoms, and that maladaptive stress responses would account for this link. This mediational process …
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Revealing the Illusion of Explanatory Depth Can Hinder Persuasion
… than they actually do, and this “illusion of explanatory depth” can be undermined by asking them to explain the phenomenon step-by-step. A recent attempt to harness this process as an intervention to reduce political attitude polarization found that participants’ policy positions were less …
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Beneficial hispanic stroke mortality: An exploration of potential explanatory factors
Stroke mortality rates are reported to be lower for Hispanics than non-Hispanic Whites. This project investigates factors that contribute to this lower rate in three ways: 1) examine the role of immigrant status in stroke incidence and mortality, 2) investigate the impact of cause of death …
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Explanatory Style as a Protective Factor for Victimized LGBT Adolescents
… one makes about negative life events, explanatory style (ES) can be conceptualized as either negative (attributing adverse events as due to internal, global, and stable causes) or positive (attributing events to external, specific, and transient causes). A negative ES has been …
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Explanatory Style as a Protective Factor for Victimized LGBT Adolescents
… one makes about negative life events, explanatory style (ES) can be conceptualized as either negative (attributing adverse events as due to internal, global, and stable causes) or positive (attributing events to external, specific, and transient causes). A negative ES has been …
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Upgrading the Protein Formulation Toolbox through Predictive and Explanatory Models
… the development of a series of predictive and explanatory models designed with the intention of advancing both the practical tools and knowledge available to the modern protein formulation chemist. Models are developed via a combined experimental-computational approach. Experimentally, protein …
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Development and Testing of an Explanatory Model of Registered Nurse Empowerment
… purpose of this study was to develop and test an explanatory model of registered nurse empowerment. The predictor variables included personal characteristics of registered nurses (age, experience, organizational tenure, education, and position level of clinical and/or management responsibility), …
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Gender and counterproductive work behavior (CWB): a personality-based explanatory model
… & Lam, 2016). The present study proposes an explanatory model for the CWB gender gap, using personality traits (narcissism, sadism, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and emotional intelligence) and sex role orientation (agency and communion) to explain the gap. Study 1 uses meta-analytic …
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Explanatory models of illness amongst primary health care users in Mamre
… qualitative analysis draws on Kleinman's (1980) explanatory model/ framework with the aim of understanding the illness experience of each participant. The participants' understanding and/or experience of nerves is also described. This study provides additional insights in understanding the …
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Number Sequences as Explanatory Models for Middle-Grades Students' Algebraic Reasoning
Early algebraic reasoning can be viewed as developing a bridge between arithmetic and algebra. Accordingly, this research examines how middle-grades students' arithmetic reasoning, classified by their number sequences, can be used to model their algebraic reasoning as it pertains to generalizing, …
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