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Crime: A Conceptual Understanding [PDF]

open access: possibleIndian 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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Children’s Cognitive Reflection Predicts Conceptual Understanding in Science and Mathematics

Psychology Science, 2020
The Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) is a widely used measure of adults’ propensity to engage in reflective analytic thought. The CRT is strongly predictive of many diverse psychological factors but unsuitable for use with developmental samples.
Andrew G. Young, Andrew Shtulman
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Conceptual development and conversational understanding

Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2004
Children's understanding of the implications of conversation can influence their responses on tasks designed to measure conceptual development. These responses are in keeping with developmental changes in the ability to recognize and resolve ambiguity in communicative contexts, as shown, for example, in children's ability to compute "scalar ...
Surian, Luca, M. Siegal
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'Implicit' and 'Explicit' CSR: A Conceptual Framework for a Comparative Understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility

, 2008
We address the question of how and why corporate social responsibility (CSR) differs among countries and how and why it changes. Applying two schools of thought in institutional theory we conceptualize, first, the differences between CSR in the USA and ...
Dirk Matten, J. Moon
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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 Understanding, Procedural Knowledge and Problem-Solving Skills in Mathematics: High School Graduates Work Analysis and Standpoints

International Journal of Education and Practice, 2019
This study measures the mathematical abilities high school graduates’ in Bahrain. Mathematical abilities encompass conceptual understanding, procedural knowledge and problem-solving skills in the five content domains which are Number and Operations ...
M. Al-Mutawah   +4 more
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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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Understanding transients: a conceptual interpretation [PDF]

open access: possibleIEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 1997
This paper provides a conceptual interpretation and a complementary understanding about power system transients through qualitative analysis. It introduces a few intuitive concepts by analyzing the transients of a two-winding transformer and a synchronous generator under a short circuit condition.
Yu-Huai Shao, Ji-Yuan Fan, Zhang Wang
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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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Understanding Social Reforms: A Conceptual Analysis

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 1996
Abstract In this chapter it is our aim to expand on this claim and examine why and how a coherent socio-economic philosophy (or discourse) plays such a significant role in the management of social reforms. Our goal is set within the broader context of rethinking the texture of policy-making in the light of recent developments in systems ...
Tsoukas, Haridimos   +3 more
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