Sentences with phrase «conceptual models»

On the basis of previous research and conceptual models, we hypothesized that intervention effects on parenting practices, specifically caregivers» use of positive behavior support (PBS) strategies in toddlerhood, would mediate improvements in children's weight trajectories.

Identification of such mechanisms contributes to the development of conceptual models of youth functioning and suggests specific targets for prevention and intervention efforts.

Under these conditions, current conceptual models that account only for parent - based effects on children's risk for anxiety are incomplete.

These findings have implications for dimensional models of social functioning and conceptual models for specific clinical populations (e.g., attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder).

Conceptual models seeking to explain how children respond to conflict emphasize different intervening processes, but a common theme in these models is that the meaning of the interaction for children is critical for determining its effects (Crockenberg & Forgays, 1996; Davies & Cummings, 1994; Grych & Fincham, 1990).

Results are discussed in terms of the usefulness of conceptual models of interpersonal relations and motivation as guides in studying the social determinants of CVR, as well as the value of marital interactions as a context for understanding CVR.

This could indicate that different conceptual models, and possibly different assessment instruments, are needed in order to accurately assess men's experiences of IPV in heterosexual relationships.

The grounded theory approach involves systematic review of qualitative data to allow novel ideas and theories to emerge from the observations rather than imposing existing theory or conceptual models to arrive at, or interpret, results.

For all these reasons, this is a crucial time for a new contribution that revisits organizational issues, conceptual models and best practices aimed at helping countries, communities, programs, managers and practitioners learn from each other; to garner public and political support; to improve practice; to promote staff development, to mitigate problems of misunderstanding; and to move the field forward in a positive policy direction.

This pervasive pattern of stress response system hyporesponsivity is inconsistent with patterns observed in the rodent literature following maternal deprivation (1 ⇓ — 3, 46) and challenges some prevailing conceptual models of early - life adversity and stress response system development, which argue that adverse environments should lead to elevated physiological reactivity (47, 48).

To delineate why some children with chronic disease, such as PRDs, adjust better than others, research has begun to focus on testing multivariate conceptual models to predict the observed variance in adjustment of children with chronic disease.

Consist in more than 8 years of experience highly focused and dedicated to design drafting oriented to 3D - conceptual models of offshore platform miscellaneous steel structures for refineries / petrochemical construction detailed drawings of concrete and steel structures (including primary secondary and tertiary steel) new Greenfield construction and existing brownfield projects Safety trained and qualified to do offshore plat...

Collaborated in the design process by offering multiple solutions in conceptual models, layout, theme and typography.

Developed conceptual models for Business Capability traceability matrix to explain processes to all levels of users

[19] There are three conceptual models for determining entitlement to spousal support: compensatory, non-compensatory, and contractual.

The A2J Author ® tool... translated several of the conceptual models for a redesigned court system into a Web - based interface that gently leads unsophisticated users through a guided interview for determining eligibility and collects all the information needed to prepare the required court forms.

Present global climate models (GCMs) supersede the old simple conceptual models on the greenhouse effect, some of which include radiative - convection and heat balance models discussed over the period 1890 — 1980 (Arrhenius 1896; Hulburt 1931; Charney et al. 1979; Schneider and Dickinson 1974; North 1975; Wang WC and Stone P 1980).

For Stage 11, these conceptual models show that the deglaciation was triggered by the insolation maximum at about 427 ka, but that the next insolation minimum was not sufficiently low to start another glaciation.

This understanding can take the form of conceptual models or it might be quantified with climate models that are driven with physically based forcing histories.

Oceanic anoxic event 2 (OAE2) occurred approximately 94 million years ago at the Cenomanian — Turonian boundary and is often considered as the type example of an OAE, as it fulfills many of the predictions of the conceptual models.

In the absence of simpler models, conceptual models tell us to expect some amount of warming in response to increasing atmospheric CO2.

I am referring specifically to mathematical models and not conceptual models.

None of this requires a mathematical model, but does require several conceptual models.

This not only fits with conceptual models regarding the atmospheric effects of El Niño, but is also strongly supported by model predictions.

Fortunately meteorologist have very many measurements from the real atmosphere at their disposal and can use that to improve their models, both the simplified conceptual models and the large models that they use in forecasting.

Bates, J., 2010: Climate stability and sensitivity in some simple conceptual models, Climate Dynamics (28 December 2010), pp. 1 - 19.

Climate model simulations confirm that an Ice Age can indeed be started in this way, while simple conceptual models have been used to successfully «hindcast» the onset of past glaciations based on the orbital changes.

Modeling Instruction is an evolving, research - based program for high school science education reform that emphasizes constructing and applying conceptual models of physical, chemical, and biological phenomena as a central aspect of learning and doing science.

You get very similar results using slab oceans (no changes in transports etc.), and similar results using very different conceptual models — in this sense it is a robust result.

Thus as an adjunct to simpler conceptual models, we need to have models that have everything (almost) to test how robust the simple models are.

I have a fondness for such simple conceptual models (e.g. I've made my own attempt posted at arXiv) because they provide a general picture of the essence — of course their precision is limited by their simplicity.

Penkala plays with optics and film conditions as visual bait to conflate the actual and the representation; fragmenting the visual experience into a series of changing moments, into a state of flux, into an «unfixing» of conceptual models rather than concretizing them.

Marcel Duchamp and many Conceptual artists of the 1960s radically challenged existing definitions of the artwork with the help of structural and conceptual models and the emergence of an emphasis on multiples.

With new artistic objectives, structural and conceptual models emerged as complete and viable works of art in and of themselves.

The state of flux that is initiated is to keep thought active by a manner of unfixing or unsettling visual and conceptual models rather than fixing or concretizing them.

Current projects include «Models and Prototypes,» an exhibition dedicated to the growing importance of structural and conceptual models since the early 20th century, which is scheduled to open in the museum's new building this fall.

In addition, the camera provided an important data source for the preservice teachers as they began to develop conceptual models.

In addition, students will address conceptual models and research designs for determining program effectiveness, and systems of data collection and analysis that can be applied to gather information and inform decision making on a regular basis.

This question - and others - will be answered as students create physical and conceptual models for aircraft in flight as they learn the science behind this engineering feat.

As an example, when I was studying a former lecturer (now Associate Professor John Lamp) was explaining ontologies and other conceptual models.

A picture of a pipe once helped me to understand conceptual models.

I had learnt that conceptual models were just representations of the object (real or not) to which it refers.

In addition, different disciplines that study learning vary significantly in their terminology and conceptual models.

So in health care, conceptual models are incredibly important, because they determine what we do to treat illness.

The current lifestyle disease crisis reveals that Western science has stretched the limits of its conceptual models.

A quick search on Wikipedia for the word «model» will give you a many different options, ranging from physical models that you can touch, to conceptual models of how a system works.

The mathematical economist Johanna Grames has developed conceptual models to describe economic decisions for long - term flood protection strategies.

In fact, the way science progresses is by conceptual models being put forward and then testing them against observations.

«Its existence was predicted by the standard model of particle physics and the fact that there's — we got a glimpse of it, it looks like it may very well be there — is a real victory for that model of science where you test, you put forward conceptual models of the way the world or the universe works and test those models against the observations and see the extent to which they can predict new observations and when they do, it gives you increased confidence in the models.

We need to rely on conceptual models of the system we're studying and it's no different in any other field of science.