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Science teachers know that students enter the classroom with many alternative conceptions—notions that are naive, incomplete, or sometimes contrary to those generally accepted by mainstream scientists. Some alternative conceptions can be doggedly resistant to change, making it difficult for students and teachers to improve conceptual understanding ...
Carl J. Wenning, Rebecca E. Vieyra
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Science teachers know that students enter the classroom with many alternative conceptions—notions that are naive, incomplete, or sometimes contrary to those generally accepted by mainstream scientists. Some alternative conceptions can be doggedly resistant to change, making it difficult for students and teachers to improve conceptual understanding ...
Carl J. Wenning, Rebecca E. Vieyra
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Concepts in alternative medicine
Social Science & Medicine, 1986After discussing some important alternative approaches, different interpretations are presented of the concepts of health, disease, diagnosis, therapy and patient. These differences are elucidated in three main frames of medical thinking: the pharmaceutical, the integrational and the holistic model. Attention is given to the problem of scientific proof,
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Towards an Alternative Concept of Privacy
Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 2011PurposeThere are a lot of discussions about privacy in relation to contemporary communication systems (such as Facebook and other “social media” platforms), but discussions about privacy on the internet in most cases misses a profound understanding of the notion of privacy and where this notion is coming from.
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The Conception of the Alternative and the Decision to Divorce
American Journal of Psychotherapy, 1983Despite soaring divorce rates and the effect of divorce on the individual, family, and society, professional scientific literature examining the factors governing the decision to divorce has been scant. The author suggests that the key variable affecting the decision to divorce can best be understood through an exploration of the individual's ...
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Psychiatric Comorbidity: Concepts, Controversies and Alternatives
Australasian Psychiatry, 2005Objective: To review various concepts of psychiatric comorbidity, their implications, surrounding controversies and underlying issues. A further aim is to propose an alternative term that might be more clinically useful and meaningful for describing the coexistence of mental disorders.
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Alternative conceptions of the time-line
Proceedings of TIME '97: 4th International Workshop on Temporal Representation and Reasoning, 1997Summary form only given. It is often assumed that if time is continuous, then the standard mathematical account of the continuum, the real line, is the appropriate model of the local structure of the timeline. However, another popular account of the timeline which provides the basis for Allen's famous 13 interval relations does not seem naturally ...
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SAE Technical Paper Series, 1990
<div class="htmlview paragraph">This is an exploratory paper which will look at some hygiene alternatives and how they could be developed for manned space flight. Areas to be covered will include: Body Hygiene emphasising body-brushing; Dental care, emphasising preventive care and alternatives to brushing of teeth; Dietary aspects in the way it ...
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<div class="htmlview paragraph">This is an exploratory paper which will look at some hygiene alternatives and how they could be developed for manned space flight. Areas to be covered will include: Body Hygiene emphasising body-brushing; Dental care, emphasising preventive care and alternatives to brushing of teeth; Dietary aspects in the way it ...
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Learners’ Alternative Conceptions
2011This chapter focuses on learners’ alternative conceptions. Since prospective teachers in general, and prospective computer science teachers in particular, face difficulties in gaining the notion of alternative conceptions, it is important to address this issue in the MTCS course and to deliver the message that a learning opportunity exists in each ...
Orit Hazzan, Noa Ragonis, Tami Lapidot
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