Mathematical Beliefs — A Search for a Common Ground: Some Theoretical Considerations on Structuring Beliefs, Some Research Questions, and Some Phenomenological Observations

2005 ◽  
pp. 73-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
GÜnter TÖrner
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
Mathematical Beliefs ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Theoretical Considerations

Exploring the Common Ground of Virtual Communities

2002 ◽  
pp. 67-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Dirksen ◽  
Bas Smit
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Constructive Work ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Actual Field ◽  
The Common ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Definition Of

A great deal of the literature on virtual communities evolves around classifying the phenomenon1 while much empirically constructive work on the topic has not been conducted yet. Therefore, the research discussed in this paper proposes to explore the actual field of the virtual community (VC). By means of a comparative ethnographic research, virtual communities are to be defined in terms of their inherent social activity, the interaction between the groups of people and the information and communication technology (ICT), and the meanings attached to it by its members. This chapter will report on the initial propositions, research questions and approach of the explorative research of working towards a “workable definition” of virtual communities. It will also present its “work to be done” which will ultimately form the basis of moving beyond defining virtual communities, i.e., actually designing and deploying one.

scholarly journals Wongi mi bardup (doing it our way)

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rhonda Marriott ◽  
Tracy Reibel ◽  
Juli Coffin ◽  
Terri-Lee Barrett ◽  
Janinne Gliddon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Indigenous Research ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Life Event ◽  
Aboriginal Women ◽  
Indigenous Research Methodologies ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Birthing Practices ◽  
Theoretical Considerations

The Birthing on Noongar Boodjar project investigated the cultural birthing practices of Aboriginal women living on country (Noongar Boodjar) in an urbanised environment; and their experiences of interactions with maternal health care providers (especially midwives). The evidence from the five year study identified changes required in health systems to adequately support Aboriginal women and their families during the significant cultural and life event of childbearing.  This paper sets out the methodological and theoretical considerations which framed how the Birthing on Noongar Boodjar project was conducted by the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal investigators. We provide a brief project background before describing the Indigenous research methodologies and practices crucial to exploring the research questions, collecting data in culturally secure ways and using cultural lenses to analyze and interpret the data. The study design and results are reported in other publications.

The role of personality and socio‐economic status in the stress–illness relation: A longitudinal study

1991 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adelita V. Ranchor ◽  
Robbert Sanderman
Keyword(s):  
Normal Population ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Course Of Disease ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Somatic Diseases ◽  
Theoretical Considerations

Although a wide variety of factors have been found to be related to health in some way, researchers on the subject of health generally fail to integrate findings of other research disciplines within their own line of research. This study has attempted to bring together two research disciplines: (a) research on personality and health, and (b) research on socio‐economical differences in health. Personality factors as well as social class have been found to mediate the stress‐illness relation. Based on empirical and theoretical considerations, we proposed a simple model for the occurrence and course of disease. The personality factors studied were neuroticism, locus of control, and self‐esteem. Socio‐economic status (SES) was represented by education level, occupation status, and income. Health was operationalized as the number of somatic diseases. The research questions were investigated (using t‐tests andpath analysis) in a longitudinal set of data that were collected between 1970 and 1984 among 245 subjects in the normal population. Neuroticism appeared to be an important mediator of the stress‐illness relation. Of the SES variables, occupation and education served as mediators; education was especially infuential on the course of disease. The role of neuroticism is discussed.

Debating planetary urbanization: For an engaged pluralism

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 570-590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Brenner
Keyword(s):  
Urban Studies ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Urban Theory ◽  
The Core ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Postcolonial Feminist

This essay reflects on recent debates around planetary urbanization, many of which have been articulated through dismissive caricatures of the core epistemological orientations, conceptual proposals, methodological tactics, and substantive arguments that underpin this emergent approach to the urban question. Following consideration of some of the most prevalent misrepresentations of this work within this special issue, I build upon Barnes and Sheppard’s (2010) concept of “engaged pluralism” to suggest more productive possibilities for dialogue among critical urban researchers whose agendas are too often viewed as incommensurable or antagonistic rather than as interconnected and, potentially, allied. The essay concludes by outlining nine research questions whose more sustained exploration could more productively connect studies of planetary urbanization to several fruitful lines of inquiry that have been explored within postcolonial, feminist and queer-theoretical strands of urban studies. While questions of positionality necessarily lie at the heart of any critical approach to urban theory and research, so too does the search for intellectual and political common ground that might help orient, animate and advance the shared, if constitutively heterodox, project(s) of critical urban studies.

Individual Psychological Assessment: A Practice and Science in Search of Common Ground

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 270-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Silzer ◽  
Richard Jeanneret
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Assessment ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Core Competency ◽  
Clinical Prediction ◽  
Assessment Practice ◽  
Working Definition ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
High Level ◽  
Scientist Practitioner Model

During the past 30 years, individual psychological assessment (IPA) has gained in use and in value to organizations in the management of human resources. However, even though IPA is considered a core competency for industrial–organizational (I–O) psychology, its practice is not without critics. This article is written not only to address several criticisms of IPA but also to discuss a variety of issues that must be taken into consideration if IPA is to advance as a major component of the I–O scientist–practitioner model. We rely upon a working definition of IPA in general but, when possible, focus on executive assessment in particular, given its high level of complexity and growing popularity. We discuss the effectiveness of assessment practice, including the ongoing statistical versus clinical prediction argument and the difficulties with establishing validity. Although we are confident that IPA has many strong research and practice underpinnings, we also propose some important research questions, training guidelines, and opportunities for assessing psychologists to improve their practices.

The Factorial Survey

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 304-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hermann Dülmer
Keyword(s):  
Internal Validity ◽  
Fractional Factorial ◽  
Factorial Designs ◽  
Factorial Survey ◽  
Efficient Design ◽  
Empirical Comparison ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
First Time ◽  
Full Factorial ◽  
Theoretical Considerations

The factorial survey is an experimental design consisting of varying situations (vignettes) that have to be judged by respondents. For more complex research questions, it quickly becomes impossible for an individual respondent to judge all vignettes. To overcome this problem, random designs are recommended most of the time, whereas quota designs are not discussed at all. First comparisons of random designs with fractional factorial and D-efficient designs are based on fictitious data, first comparisons with fractional factorial and confounded factorial designs are restricted to theoretical considerations. The aim of this contribution is to compare different designs regarding their reliability and their internal validity. The benchmark for the empirical comparison is established by the estimators from a parsimonious full factorial design, each answered by a sample of 132 students (real instead of fictitious data). Multilevel analyses confirm that, if they exist, balanced confounded factorial designs are ideal. A confounded D-efficient design, as proposed for the first time in this article, is also superior to simple random designs.

Lexical Typology in Morphology

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm ◽  
Ljuba N. Veselinova
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Systematic Exploration ◽  
The Common ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Lexical Items ◽  
Linguistic Units ◽  
Working Out

The goal of this chapter is to explicate the common ground and shared pursuits of lexical typology and morphology. Bringing those to the fore is beneficial to the scholarship of both disciplines and will allow their methodologies to be combined in more fruitful ways. In fact, such explication also opens up a whole new domain of study. This overview article focuses on a set of important research questions common to both lexical typology and morphology. Specifically, it considers vocabulary structure in human languages, cross-linguistic research on morphological analysis and word formation, and finally inventories of very complex lexical items. After a critical examination of the pertinent literature, some directions for future research are suggested. Some of them include working out methodologies for more systematic exploration of vocabulary structure and further scrutiny of how languages package and distribute semantic material among linguistic units. Finally, more effort is to be devoted to the study of vocabularies where basic concepts are encoded by complex lexical items.

Why and How Commercial Marketing Should Promote Sufficient Consumption: A Systematic Literature Review

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 252-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maike Gossen ◽  
Florence Ziesemer ◽  
Ulf Schrader
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Absolute Reduction ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Theoretical Considerations

Although marketing strategies are often accused of stimulating overconsumption, businesses increasingly show potential as enablers of sufficiency. The concept of sufficiency contributes to sustainable development through the absolute reduction of resources and energy used for consumption by questioning the level of demand. This study analyzes reasons and potential practices for commercial marketing to promote sufficiency through a systematic literature review of scientific publications, guided by the following research questions: Why should commercial marketing promote sufficiency? How can commercial marketing promote sufficiency? Which barriers for promoting sufficiency occur? The content-based study of 17 publications in the final review sample delivers recommendations for how to practically implement marketing for sufficiency, and theoretical considerations for strengthening the discourse within macromarketing and beyond.

scholarly journals The abortion and mental health controversy: A comprehensive literature review of common ground agreements, disagreements, actionable recommendations, and research opportunities

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 205031211880762 ◽  
Author(s):  
David C Reardon
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
History Of ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Time Frames

The abortion and mental health controversy is driven by two different perspectives regarding how best to interpret accepted facts. When interpreting the data, abortion and mental health proponents are inclined to emphasize risks associated with abortion, whereas abortion and mental health minimalists emphasize pre-existing risk factors as the primary explanation for the correlations with more negative outcomes. Still, both sides agree that (a) abortion is consistently associated with elevated rates of mental illness compared to women without a history of abortion; (b) the abortion experience directly contributes to mental health problems for at least some women; (c) there are risk factors, such as pre-existing mental illness, that identify women at greatest risk of mental health problems after an abortion; and (d) it is impossible to conduct research in this field in a manner that can definitively identify the extent to which any mental illnesses following abortion can be reliably attributed to abortion in and of itself. The areas of disagreement, which are more nuanced, are addressed at length. Obstacles in the way of research and further consensus include (a) multiple pathways for abortion and mental health risks, (b) concurrent positive and negative reactions, (c) indeterminate time frames and degrees of reactions, (d) poorly defined terms, (e) multiple factors of causation, and (f) inherent preconceptions based on ideology and disproportionate exposure to different types of women. Recommendations for collaboration include (a) mixed research teams, (b) co-design of national longitudinal prospective studies accessible to any researcher, (c) better adherence to data sharing and re-analysis standards, and (d) attention to a broader list of research questions.

Finding solutions in an interdisciplinary environment

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Bryndum-Buchholz ◽  
Ana Corbalan ◽  
Najeem Shajahan
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Interdisciplinary Projects ◽  
Changing World

<div> <p>Our rapidly changing world is facing challenges that increasingly demand strong interdisciplinary components in academic projects to find the solutions we need. Successful interdisciplinary research can enhance knowledge and hence lead to new discoveries and innovation. In order to successfully work together in projects that span multiple disciplines, it is important to fully understand the challenges these projects face. We revisit the meaning of interdisciplinarity and evaluate why it has often proven very challenging. For example, one of the greatest challenges is finding a common ground when framing key research questions. We analyze and present an ideal scenario, where challenges and limitations are acknowledged but overcome, and suggest some techniques that can be used to plan and successfully undertake interdisciplinary projects.  </p> </div><div> <p> </p> </div>

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