adjective
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a theoretical concept (= that exists only as a theory )
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The theoretical concepts of psychology, for example Freud’s ideas, are also useful in the study of literature.
from a theoretical/political/economic etc standpoint
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Let’s look at the questions from an economic standpoint.
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more
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The final advantage of the grid-linked system is more theoretical .
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Instead it will deal with two more theoretical questions.
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From a commercial point of view rescission as a remedy is more theoretical than practical.
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At a more theoretical level two comments are worth making.
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The second was of a more theoretical nature, dealing with the constitution of salicylic acid.
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Thus they may prefer to skip the next two chapters which are more theoretical .
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account
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Cureton has provided a theoretical account of our intuitions about rhythm.
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A number of different theoretical accounts for this finding will now be considered in turn.
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To many, these theoretical accounts are mutually exclusive alternatives, with acceptance of either one requiring the rejection of the other.
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Understanding is deferred, rather as it is in certain recent theoretical accounts of the way literature works.
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She defines the area of feminist epistemology as that of developing theoretical accounts of knowledge which retain continuity with women's experiences.
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Following that, we shall look at three different theoretical accounts of the growth of the service sector in Britain.
analysis
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This will be supported further by the theoretical analysis undertaken in chapter 6.
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Sixthly, and most importantly, the theoretical analysis that we have undertaken is entirely partial.
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This fundamental difference with the position of earlier radicals required theoretical analysis in two areas.
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The justification for the interpretation is theoretical analysis of the forced spherical pendulum.
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But what of a theoretical analysis of how these structures intersect?
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Why is it not possible to begin with the basis in a theoretical analysis of Soviet economy.
approach
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Each of the theoretical approaches outlined above is vulnerable to specific criticisms.
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We have concentrated in this chapter on theoretical approaches to the demand for sport.
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Some of these alternative insights can be gleaned from an appraisal of alternative theoretical approaches .
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As with the development of all skills, the theoretical approach described in this chapter needs to be supplemented by practical experience.
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First are theoretical approaches which depend upon some empirical knowledge to apply theoretical concepts such as the continuity equation.
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They are not fundamental criticisms of analysis or method, although they begin to raise wider questions about theoretical approaches .
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However, this theoretical approach would argue, such inequalities are in principle temporary.
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How does this theoretical approach fare in relation to the problems which were outlined in the opening section?
argument
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In working through the accounts particular emphasis has been placed upon the nature of the theoretical arguments involved.
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Well, M &038; M missed a few real-world points in their original theoretical argument .
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The community power debate has continued into the 1970s and 1980s with both elitists and pluralists refining their methods and theoretical arguments .
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This is not the only theoretical argument suggesting that chaotic neural behavior is possible.
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The theoretical arguments receive empirical support from private systems elsewhere.
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Often, however, theoretical arguments have been distanced from detailed empirical investigation of industrial change.
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Stalinism, in fact, accords all too perfectly with the perverse structures of Sartre's own theoretical argument .
aspect
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The theoretical aspects of these techniques are well covered but the environmental applications are rather sparse.
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The ability to relate theoretical aspects of the program development to practical teaching application in classrooms and library media centers. 5.
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The theoretical aspects were formulated in the mid-1940s and the first dates were published in December 1949.
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This more theoretical aspect should provide a better basis for urban designers and transport planners considering personal security issues.
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The next section of this chapter looks at the theoretical aspects which underpin this budgetary process and plan.
assumption
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Yet the attacks conflated a difference in methodology with a difference in theoretical assumptions .
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In order to test these theoretical assumptions , a factor analysis of the survey data was performed.
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The degree in poetry I have outlined would attempt to be open about its theoretical assumptions .
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That pattern was not very different whatever theoretical assumptions were used.
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When the theoretical assumptions themselves are examined the case is even less convincing.
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Re-negotiation of steps is very commonly required since theoretical assumptions of difficulty are often not mirrored by experience in practice.
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But this decision will need to be informed by an understanding of what theoretical assumptions underlie the different descriptions.
base
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It is in putting forward new ideas, derived from theoretical bases , that the hypothesis has its function.
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If there is any theoretical base for the study it should be developed and laid out in this section.
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Questions of theoretical base or methodological perspective have often been subsumed by or channelled into the construction of acceptable written examinations.
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The existing major general classification schemes observe few of the theoretical bases for sound classification.
basis
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The pertinent question is what theoretical basis there is to such a model.
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The theoretical basis for this rests on economic models which predict that there are net welfare gains available from removing these barriers.
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The effect is unexpected, and no theoretical basis is known to the author - hence the empirical treatment.
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But as a theoretical basis for the protection of these rights and freedoms, such ideas are woefully inadequate.
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Models can be useful and have a part to play, if built on a sound theoretical basis .
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Sociology in the final analysis existed to provide a theoretical basis for socialism and secular education which were its practice.
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This is the theoretical basis of male competition.
concept
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Throughout the book, theoretical concepts and experimental evidence are integrated.
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In any event, it must be kept in mind that from a linguistic point of view dialect is a theoretical concept .
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The analysis of these data will combine up-to-date statistical techniques with theoretical concepts drawn from both economics and sociology.
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First are theoretical approaches which depend upon some empirical knowledge to apply theoretical concepts such as the continuity equation.
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The theoretical concepts of psychology and sociology are used to study how people work in organisations.
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What distinguished eugenists from Farr and his colleagues were the laws and theoretical concepts used to assess the population.
consideration
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There is however a very large distance between these long-run theoretical considerations and empirical implementation.
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At the same time, the second approach via theoretical considerations - is also valuable in assessing the question of incidence.
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The point is that they are deliberately sought because some reasoned theoretical considerations are felt to require them.
construct
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Such models comprise theoretical constructs of variables which are interrelated, and significant in influencing the outcome of a purchase motivation.
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It is important to see that the physical world is a mental, theoretical construct .
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To say that the physical world is a theoretical construct is not to say that it does not really exist.
debate
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Shortly, we shall examine the theoretical debates within this school.
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This is entirely in keeping with the theoretical debate over academic freedom which we find in the literature.
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So far, that's prevented the organization from losing itself too much in theoretical debate or argument.
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As the title implies, she related theoretical debates about the nature of the state to the institutions of local government.
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There is also a glossary of terms frequently used within the theoretical debates .
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But on the Lazarsfeldian view theoretical debate without systematically provided empirical evidence is essentially sterile not to say unscientific.
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At the same time, this is an area of considerable theoretical debate , disagreement and, many would argue, confusion.
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Opinion poll-led policy-making has proven a disaster, yet open policy discussion and theoretical debate remains near non-existent.
development
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In a short period of rapid theoretical development the emergent core of regional planning principles and practices strengthened considerably.
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Secondly, systems technology which is concerned with applications in computer operations and theoretical development such as game theory.
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But there has been little systematic investigation of how different approaches affect the process of analysis and theoretical development .
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The research will involve theoretical development and both econometric work and back up case study analysis.
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The most intensive theoretical development began during the 1940s.
discussion
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The general theoretical discussion on concepts and definitions is therefore - perhaps surprisingly - put at the end.
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The prevailing attitude among most newsmen andwomen was almost anti-intellectual, disdainful of theoretical discussions and analysis of issues.
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Most of the theoretical discussion assume that few, if any, breaches of the taboo occur.
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These theoretical discussions are consistent with recent experimental results that are also summarized in section 9. 3.
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Another is the difficulty of moving from the theoretical discussion to the specification and testing of an empirical model.
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Recently, joint planning, evaluation and some theoretical discussion have become an integral part of the programme.
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Academic list servers have been known to start useful theoretical discussions over important issues within a field.
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Computational questions have become central, not just in natural language processing applications, but also in theoretical discussions within linguistics.
explanation
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Convincing objections have been raised to every theoretical explanation which has so far been provided.
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There are a number of theoretical explanations for the term structure of interest rates.
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To make assumptions about the cause of behavior or feelings is to use theoretical explanations .
foundation
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Before we consider each of these offences in outline, let us examine the practical and theoretical foundations for them.
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Moreover, as Patinkin has shown, its theoretical foundations are questionable.
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Computer Science has emerged as a well-defined discipline with a solid theoretical foundation .
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The theoretical foundations for a currency union among independent nation-states are not strong prima facie.
framework
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The development of the theoretical framework remains therefore of high priority.
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We have no real theoretical framework , and our experiments are entirely empirical.
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We shall discuss it in a variety of ways throughout the chapter and consider how it differs between theoretical frameworks .
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In particular they made great progress in their attempts to put electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force together within the same theoretical framework .
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The theoretical framework for co-citation analysis is described by Griffith and others.
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Just how important efficiency considerations appear will depend on how far the reader accepts the basic theoretical framework .
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Each theoretical framework gives a rather different account of the meaning and significance of major industrial changes as marks of structural change.
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The rivalry and interaction between advanced capitalist economies is a feature of this theoretical framework which is absent from world-system theories.
idea
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From this starting point, four theoretical ideas are identified which can contribute to a practice of affirmative assessment.
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I had to give up my theoretical ideas , my Clement Greenberg formalist ideas.
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To help a social worker clear a framework for how to proceed in family work some theoretical ideas may be helpful.
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It would not be based upon theoretical ideas which were held to have generality beyond a socio-historical context.
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The ways in which this transition can occur form a topic central to theoretical ideas about deterministic chaos.
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It should, however, be pointed out that there is a major difference between theoretical ideas and specific proposals.
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Side by side, teacher and pupil should test and render practical any theoretical ideas that were presented.
interest
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Yet it is neither rare nor without theoretical interest .
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In particular, the implicit counter-themes, and indeed counter-counter-themes, are potentially of great theoretical interest .
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But this is essentially of theoretical interest only, and there are far more practical examples.
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The theoretical interest of both phases 1 and 11 lies in four main socio-legal areas.
issue
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My criticisms are mainly concerned with Blake's handling of some major theoretical issues and with certain parts of the book.
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The matter before the high court involves only the theoretical issue of whether the government can be held liable for damages.
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Two major theoretical issues underlie the reality of health care provision for older people.
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One is the theoretical issue of how money should be defined.
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In some chapters the authors also refer back to earlier volumes in the series for a more detailed discussion of theoretical issues .
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The paper as a whole is an excellent source of information on a range of relevant practical and theoretical issues .
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Its pattern-searching strategy resolves many theoretical issues by placing them within the constraint of empirical evidence.
knowledge
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Every course will involve an element of theoretical knowledge to ensure that your next trip away from the controlled environment is safe.
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The academic tradition is content-focused and typically stresses abstract and theoretical knowledge for examination.
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Closer investigation shows the extraordinary extent of Miller's theoretical knowledge of and practical expertise with an enormous diversity of matters.
level
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It is true that the question remained at a rather theoretical level in the 1860s.
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The discussion remains largely on the theoretical level .
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At the theoretical level , Soul is more profoundly misleading.
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At a theoretical level there remain some problems with this analysis.
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It was a geographical question; and the answer, at the theoretical level , was simple.
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At a more theoretical level two comments are worth making.
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This brings them to explore the theoretical level of psychological discourse.
model
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There are theoretical models which suggest that effective markets depend on legal and institutional factors as well as the operation of the price mechanism.
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They argue for the development of theoretical models , upon which hypothesis testing can be carried out.
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The general theoretical model , in a very simplified form, is shown in Figure 2.
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This analysis is extended by the examination of theoretical models of buying behaviour, and is illustrated by a major case study.
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Lattice enthalpies can also be calculated using a theoretical model .
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There is no clear theoretical model to explain the relationship between motivation, job satisfaction and performance.
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A second approach is to use some theoretical model to calculate effective atomic charges.
perspective
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These explanations are influenced by the sociologist's theoretical perspective and their evaluation of the services provided by professionals.
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On this second front he goes beyond Parsons by expanding the opportunities of scholars with variant theoretical perspectives .
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This is inpart what I hope to provide here in respect of certain current theoretical perspectives and pedagogic approaches.
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For the time being, we move on to the second of our theoretical perspectives , the ethogenic approach.
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Finally, ignorance of the cultural and theoretical perspective that underlies a study can colour its substantive conclusions.
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From a theoretical perspective population growth is seen as a major stimulant to industrial development.
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Preparatory lectures will give a theoretical perspective to a residential weekend at an outdoor centre.
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Mannheim's ideas will now be applied to two of the major theoretical perspectives in sociology: Marxism and functionalism.
physicist
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These will be the outstanding problems for theoretical physicists in the next twenty years or so.
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Undoubtedly, the human interest story of how I have managed to be a theoretical physicist despite my disability has helped.
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So maybe the end is in sight for theoretical physicists , if not for theoretical physics.
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Not, alas, from one ex-Colorado theoretical physicist .
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The theoretical physicist gets more credit than the experimental because the behavior of the latter clearly depends on laboratory practice and observation.
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Scientists, especially theoretical physicists , are all awaiting the next revolutionary breakthrough that overthrows the paradigms of theory and practice.
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That is certainly how those years are enshrined in the folk memory of theoretical physicists .
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Richard Feynman, said to be the greatest theoretical physicist of modern times, stated that no-one understands quantum mechanics.
physics
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In theoretical physics , the search for logical self-consistency has always been more important in making advances than experimental results.
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Fukushima describes the relationship between modeling neural networks and neurophysiology as one resembling that between theoretical physics and experimental physics.
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They are predicted by theoretical physics , and there is good experimental evidence in favour of their existence.
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So maybe the end is in sight for theoretical physicists, if not for theoretical physics .
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Doing theoretical physics is usually a two-step process.
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I felt that there were two possible areas of theoretical physics that were fundamental and in which I might do research.
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Feynman, who died in 1988, is remembered for his many contributions to theoretical physics .
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The ideal candidate will hold a good degree in theoretical physics or physical chemistry and have strong mathematical and computing skills.
position
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This interpretation seems to leave Kant's theoretical position intact.
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The assumptions of each theoretical position form the core around which each theory is constructed.
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Neither Marx nor Engels wrote systematically about art, but important theoretical positions were derived from them.
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These two theoretical positions are, apparently, mutually exclusive.
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It does not seem to me necessary or desirable to adhere exclusively to one or other of these theoretical positions .
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Much of the writing on family law lacks any stated theoretical position , although it is generally underpinned by a welfare approach.
possibility
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There is a theoretical possibility of explaining them.
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But formidable capital cost stood in the way of such improvements, and irrigation remained no more than a theoretical possibility .
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As soon as such heterogeneity enters into a polymer chain, information technology becomes a theoretical possibility .
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But now that the question has ceased to be one of recognition, the theoretical possibility of rebuttal must exist.
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However, the autonomous house can not provide servicing without limits, a theoretical possibility in the conventional house.
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Whatever the theoretical possibilities , it is clearly more parsimonious to explain acquired distinctiveness and equivalence solely in terms of associative mechanisms.
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On one level this statement was not staking out any new policy, merely raising theoretical possibilities .
problem
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An interesting methodological and theoretical problem is posed by these contradictions.
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But that development involved the solution of theoretical problems and was not to be achieved without considerable theoretical labour.
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There is, however, a theoretical problem .
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A major part of the argument against integration was based on the reaction of teachers rather than any theoretical problems .
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But this immediately raises two theoretical problems .
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These theoretical problems are most visible and at their most intractable in the area of fostering and adoption policy.
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There are, however, a few theoretical problems .
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Here we return to the theoretical problem of how the other can be articulated as such.
reason
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We may have a theoretical reason for believing that the variable we are studying will require a particular transformation.
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While separating these activities analytically from other major processes, like emotional support, it does this for justifiable theoretical reasons .
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This option largely failed to make headway for many of the basic theoretical reasons that were outlined in Chapter 2.
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As yet nobody knows; but it would certainly be worth finding out, both for commercial and for theoretical reasons .
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Althusser has a theoretical reason for adopting the views of Lenin and Mao.
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The results will be of interest for descriptive and theoretical reasons .
standpoint
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This chapter examines these questions from a theoretical standpoint within the framework of natural monopoly industries.
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First, that the routinized nature of practice affects all theoretical standpoints , therefore psychodynamic social work is not necessarily disadvantaged.
structure
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It has a clear theoretical structure , which builds upon imperfect competition, over-lapping wage contracts and relatively efficient financial markets.
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Within the official school framework there are penalties for inappropriate behaviour and the pupils acknowledge, at least, its theoretical structure .
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The theoretical structure is large and in places complicated.
study
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The aim of the course is to provide a comprehensive framework for practical and theoretical study in Art and Design.
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However, Karplus illustrated the immense scale of the problem facing those embarked on theoretical study .
understanding
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He mentioned the need to bring out the practical application of subjects, in ways which would enhance rather than displace theoretical understanding .
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The ideas which come from a good theoretical understanding form hypotheses, and this concept is our next subject of study.
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The immediate aims are to develop theoretical understanding , suggest research priorities and contribute to thinking about relevant public policies.
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Thompson explores a theoretical understanding of how prejudice works.
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The work will also contribute to a theoretical understanding of survival strategies and the dynamics of decision-making in conditions of forced migration.
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Though he disliked clerical employment, his writing ability and theoretical understanding of marine science were developing.
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Ground-based data as well as the latest information from the Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft are used in developing both physical descriptions and theoretical understanding .
value
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It may be felt that this analysis has only theoretical value at most.
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Significantly, Ptolemy completed his geometric calculations without so much as developing one new idea of major theoretical value .
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Much emphasis has been placed on the theoretical value of tat and protease inhibitors.
work
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An important theme of empirical and theoretical work on contemporary social structure is that of social differentiation, and its spatial aspects.
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Recent theoretical work has clarified two possible causes of ageing.
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He was therefore able to expand his studies in the way that was ultimately to produce Capital, his main theoretical work .
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The chapter on wasps describes a recent renewal of interest following theoretical work .
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The demonstration was motivated by theoretical work which provides the real justification for the interpretation given.
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Case study evidence can assist in the development of more applicable theoretical work in industrial organisation.
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Let us accept that by no means all research stems from the reading of published theoretical work or dissatisfaction with the use of concepts.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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theoretical research
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There is a theoretical chance of infection, but it is not very likely.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Governments, like theoretical economists, tend to be mainly concerned with the short run.
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Heat flow modelling was based on the matching of calculated tectonic subsidence profiles with theoretical stretching curves.
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Is the measurement true to the theoretical meaning embodied in the variable as a concept?
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Sometimes a theoretical framework prescribes that particular factors are considered causally prior to others.
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The general theoretical discussion on concepts and definitions is therefore - perhaps surprisingly - put at the end.
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There are a number of theoretical explanations for the term structure of interest rates.
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This meant that students had the theoretical right to go to any school they wished.