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The Practice of Practice [PDF]
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Norum, Roger+3 more
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This paper concerns the question of what it is that philosophers have been talking about, or ought to have been talking about, when they talk about ‘a practice’. This issue is complicated by the fact that, in English at least, there are several rather distinct senses of the word ‘practice’, in two of which ‘practice’ is used as a noun, and another two ...
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In the 1993 film Groundhog Day, misanthropic meteorologist Phil Connors relives the same 24 hours, over and over and over again…for years on end. Given nearly infinite “do-overs,” Phil learns to speak French, play jazz piano, and flip cards into an upturned hat.
Angela Duckworth, Character Lab
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Parsing the Practice Turn: Practice, Practical Knowledge, Practices [PDF]
A substantial body of literature centers on the concept of ‘practice’. This article parses the practice turn in International Relations. It suggests that the meaning of ‘practice’ is a moving target. Sometimes it means process. Sometimes it refers to a particular type of knowledge and related action.
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The first article in the Innovative Practice section is a case study dealing with the way in which one family used interactive computer technologies to deal with the very real problems that some carers experience when the person for whom they care telephones them during the night because they need reassurance and are unsure what time it is.
Moriarty, J, Eagger, S
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Communities of practice in landscapes of practice [PDF]
The original formulation of communities of practice primarily focused on describing how learning, meaning, and identity within a community can translate into a sustained practice. Wenger-Trayner et al. elaborated the concept of landscapes of practice to describe how different communities of practice may interact, and belong to broader landscapes of ...
Igor Pyrko, Viktor Dörfler, Colin Eden
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Practical Occupational Medicine in "Practice" [PDF]
In Denmark, the practice of occupational medicine tends to be carried out by specialists in occupational medicine and less so by family physicians. The provision of health service to workers is therefore limited. This constraint may also apply in other developed countries and even more in countries with few occupational health resources. This Editorial
Ingemann Larsen, Anders+2 more
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Population and species neighbor identity impact trait–trait relationships and plant performance
We evaluated how populations and species identity influence plant performance and trait outcomes in mixtures, and assessed trait variation among populations of two forb species native to the western United States (Dieteria canescens and Heterotheca villosa) following three interaction treatments (single‐population monoculture, two‐population mixture ...
Alicia J. Foxx+2 more
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This week's Practice section has a trio of interesting and useful articles. Giuseppe Lauria and Raffaella Lombardi review recent advances in the use of skin biopsy to diagnose and monitor peripheral neuropathy (doi: 10.1136/bmj.39192.488125.BE). An easy to perform 3 mm punch biopsy can make the diagnosis of small nerve fiber neuropathies, which can be
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Effects of chronic browsing on life‐history traits of an irruptive large herbivore population
This study aimed to determine the relationship between diet quality, body mass, and size (hind foot length), and female reproduction and sought to identify the mechanism by which high density under severe food limitations is maintained. Our results demonstrated that sika deer introduced to Nakanoshima Island have maintained high densities through high ...
Koichi Kaji+9 more
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