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Understanding healing: a conceptual analysis

Journal of Advanced Nursing, 1996
The practice of the healing arts has been a part of human history since ancient times Despite the development of related scholarly concepts in nursing such as caring, healing remains an enigma Using conceptual analysis a clear definition of healing within a Rogerian/Newmaman framework is explicated Case development assists in the understanding of ...
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Autism: Understanding Conceptual Processing Deficits

Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 2005
Autism is a behavioral diagnosis characterized by a triad of impairment, which includes impaired communication, impaired social skills, and impaired spontaneity. The outward behavior exhibited by people with autism represents a different cognitive processing style than that seen in typical development.
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Developing Conceptual Understanding

2016
Despite the commitment to promote equity and excellence in education, significant gaps remain in understanding how students with special educational needs (SEN) learn mathematics. Specifically, how they become competent with fraction ideas, essential skills needed to become numerate and learn higher mathematics, is unclear.
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Disagreement and Conceptual Understanding

Theoria, 2018
AbstractDoes the epistemology of disagreement have significant consequences for theories of conceptual understanding? I argue that it does. I argue that the epistemology of disagreement manifests the existence of a special kind of concept,perspectival modes of metarepresentation, a kind of concept instances of which figure in the thinking about ...
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Conceptual understanding in history

European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1997
There has been considerable interest in the topic of conceptual understanding especially as found in mathematics and the sciences. The present paper discusses recent studies related to conceptual understanding in the domain of history, comparing the nature of understanding as found in history to that other domains.
James F. Voss, Jennifer Wiley
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Conceptual Relativity and Understanding

Journal of Educational Thought / Revue de la Pensée Educative, 2018
It is a commonplace observation that our ordinary language provides the resources for a variety of true descriptions of any object, event, or state of affairs. There is no fundamental object - language whereby objects, events, or states of affairs can be described with non - contextually determinate "objectivity": whatsoever descriptions are offered in
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Understanding conceptualizations of anatomy

Proceedings of the 30th ACM international conference on Design of communication, 2012
The Foundational Model of Anatomy (FMA) ontology is a reference ontology for the domain of human anatomy. Although the FMA has been developed as a computer-parsable resource that is intended to enable computers to reason about human anatomy, it is also important to present the FMA in a manner that can be more easily understood by humans.
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Teaching Medication Calculation for Conceptual Understanding

Journal of Nursing Education, 2003
ABSTRACT Medication calcination ability has been identified as a common weakness among nursing students. However, few new methods for teaching this skill have been devised. This article describes the development of a teaching strategy based on a constnictivist learning model.
Lynn E, Kelly, Normajean, Colby
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A conceptual framework for understanding iatrophobia

Patient Education and Counseling, 2019
Iatrophobia - fear of doctors, medical care, or the medical care system - is common among patients and can negatively impact their health-seeking behaviors and relationships with health care professionals. Despite this, academic literature on iatrophobia often fails to explore its nuanced causes.We establish a conceptual framework of iatrophobia ...
Mara A.G. Hollander, Michele G. Greene
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Crime: A Conceptual Understanding

Indian Journal of Applied Research, 2011
Crime is a public wrong. It is an act strongly disapproved by society. Crime includes murder, dacoities, fraud, rape, etc. Each society has its own perspective of defining crime. For commission of crime, there should be a criminal intention and a criminal act. No individual is a born criminal; the criminal intention and behaviour of an individual are a
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