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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Reductionistic"”.
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Technology Integration Complexity Model: A Systems Approach to Technology Acceptance and Use in Education
… the education system. Using contemporary and reductionistic approaches, researchers have tried to explain the lack of modern technology acceptance and use in valuable but simplistic terms. Through the testing and eventual acceptance of a theoretically-driven structural equation model, this …
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Depression, Volition, and Death: The Effect of Depressive Disorders on the Autonomous Choice to Forgo Medical Treatment
… and hence, shifting the cognitive model towards reductionistic and deterministic philosophies and psychologies. Medical ethics models must adapt their sense of autonomy in light of these findings if the term is to have any meaning - absent this necessary adaptation, medical ethics centers around …
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A Sociological Exploration of Modern /Colonial Cosmology and Food
… on nutrition, the scientific methods have been reductionistic in that a nutritional scientist can only break a given food down into its component parts, measured in chemicals, and study them one by one, even if complex interactions and contexts might be ignored. Such scientific analysis and …
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Creating a framework for systems-based graphic analysis and the assessment of college-level introductory biology textbooks
… quantitatively and qualitatively as primarily reductionistic.
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Medical Model Influence in Counseling and Psychotherapy: Counseling Psychology Training Directors' Views
… science. 5. Medical model focus on pathology is reductionistic and restrictive. 6. Preparing students for the "real world" medical influence on practice while trying to teach values of Counseling Psychology is at times a balancing act. 7. Cautious about Prescription Privilege: Are we trying to …
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Dialogues between Feminists and Jacques Lacan on Female Hysteria and Femininity
… version of patriarchal discourse, another reductionistic paradigm of female suffering, and another essentialist scheme that theorizes the subject within the normative realities of sexual difference and psychopathology. I argue that Anglophone feminism theorizes the unconscious superficially …
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Collective and Individual Rationality: Some Episodes in the History of Economic Thought
… of the opposition between holistic and reductionistic world-views in economics. Both reductionism and holism may nevertheless underpin laissez-faire policy prescriptions. Scrutiny of the nature of the articulation between micro and macro levels in the writings of economists suggests that …
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"There is a Threeness About You": Trinitarian Images of God, Self, and Community Among Medieval Women Visionaries
… the divine in a way that was neither reductionistic nor presumptuous. Juggling a diverse set of images, they skillfully expressed the inexhaustible mystery of God and the complexity of the doctrine of the Trinity. They gave insight as well into the ways that humans, created in the …
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Chiffchaffs chirp and cherries are real: a scientifically informed defence of wholehearted emergentism
… emergence as opposed to an alternative reductionistic metaphysics. In chapter 3, I analyse the emergentist research programme in linguistics as an example of the scientific application of the concept of emergence. The underlying theme of this chapter is that half-hearted emergentism is …
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Magda Arnold and the Human Person: A Mid-Century Case Study on the Relationship Between Psychology and Religion
… following her conversion, Arnold rejected reductionistic theories of the human person, instead articulating theories which emphasized human agency and telos, and which held up the human experience as the primary source of psychological knowledge. Arnold’s conversion significantly affected …
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Weak nerves in China: Neurasthenia-depression controversy as a window on psychiatric nosology
… SJSR will continue to defy attempts at reductionistic redefinition under the influence of American psychiatry, as it (and categories like it) serves an important function in capturing certain forms of human experience.
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An Analysis of the Pedagogical Methods of Hindu Gurus
… the seventeenth-century Newtonian objectivistic-reductionistic-mechanistic paradigm and later enforced by Comte's positivistic ideology for education. Teaching continues to use this paradigm for both academic achievement and to solve the different problems that students face today. The …
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Begetting, Not Making, in the Brave New World: IVF Abstinence and Considerations for a Christian Ethic
… of IVF as a difficult bioethical issue for the reductionistic nature of contemporary evangelical bioethics. Chapter 2 argues that IVF is derivative of “the modern project,” an Enlightenment mentality that seeks emancipation from authority and conquest of nature—including human nature. Chapter 3 …
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Screening and Engineering Phenotypes using Big Data Systems Biology
… that is not properly accounted for in small, reductionistic models. Increasingly, big data approaches using genomics, proteomics, metabolomics etc. are being applied to predicting and modifying the emergent phenotypes produced by complex biological systems. In this research, several novel …
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The gut microbiome: A key regulator of mucosal tolerance, barrier function, and vaccine response
… as the Altered Schaedler Flora (ASF), offers a reductionistic system to study these interactions. This dissertation examines the role of microbial communities in modulating the integrity of the intestinal barrier, highlighting the critical role of microbiota in both maintaining epithelial …