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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"fittingness"”.
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Contextual fittingness of everyday activity encounters/
This is a pilot study for the development of a method of analysing activity patterns of users with respect to the designed physical environment. Empirical data in the form of daily-diaries and preferences of college students is used in identifying the functional properties of a university setting. …
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The Dogmatic Importance of the Doctrineof the Association of Mary with Christ
… is basic for the theological reasoning as to the fittingness of the dogmas of the Immaculate Conception and Mary's Assumption, as well as for her other prerogatives, and indeed our devotion to her.</p>
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Internet use among parents of children with autism spectrum disorders
… and analysis strategies to ensure credibility, fittingness and auditability (Lincoln and Guba, 1985; Beck, 1993). Findings revealed that parents searched with intensity and urgency for information about causes, treatments, how to interpret symptoms of ASD and to confirm their child’s diagnosis. …
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The ethics of care or the ethics of justice? : a middle way
… persons, community, rationality, justification, fittingness, morality, duties and obligations. Part Three argues for an amalgam of key themes from both the ethics of care and justice. This model consists of the crucial role of context, persons and relationships, responsibilities, justice and …
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The Relationship between a Theological Understanding of Marital Commitment and a Juridical Articulation of Marital Consent in Sacramental Marriages in the United States
… view, theology judges canon law to determine the fittingness of canonical norms and structures for theological realities. Furthermore, canon law is a ministry that is both pastoral and juridical to ensure freedom and good order within the church. Canon law is part of the overall care of the …
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Visions of Origins and Ends: Personhood in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot, John Heath-Stubbs, and Geoffrey Hill
… their disordered end as members of Adam, and the fittingness of God’s salvation of the blessed through their incorporation into, and final end in, Christ. Eliot’s vision of persons made for love, and most capable of expressing that love through participation in Christ, informs his portrayal of two …
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The Journey of Men in Nursing: A Critical Ethnography
… rigor and trustworthiness included credibility, fittingness, and auditability (Beck, 1993; Lincoln & Guba, 1985). Findings revealed that men in nursing experience gender-specific challenges during three timeframes: choosing to become a nurse, becoming a nurse, and being a nurse. During the first …
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Weighing Consequences: An Ethnographic Study of Mexican-American Women with Coronary Heart Disease
… data. Three important criteria (credibility, fittingness, and auditability), developed by Lincoln and Guba (1985) and modified by Beck (1993), ensured scientific rigor. Three themes, each with sub-themes, were identified. The first theme, Knowing about heart disease, describes what women …
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Using Portable X-ray Fluorescence to Predict Physical and Chemical Properties of California Soils
… and C:N ratio from pXRF spectra and assess their fittingness for California soils by comparing predictions to results from laboratory methods. Multiple linear regression (MLR) and random forest (RF) models were created for each property using a training subset of data and evaluated by R2 , RMSE, …
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Against Natural Teleology and its Application in Ethical Theory
Many ethical theories depend on the existence of natural teleology as a source of normativity. Natural Teleology, the purposive goal-directedness of non-conscious biological processes, is also embraced to some degree by a majority of philosophers of biology who agree that the teleological concepts …