Burgeoning global mental health endeavors have renewed debates about cultural applicability of psychiatric categories.
Successive editions of the DSM have been published in North America, and questions have always arisen about the applicability of its categories outside the West.
The Transcendental Deduction presents general considerations supporting the applicability of all the categories to the objects of our experience; it does not concentrate on the applicability of specific categories.
The major debates in economic anthropology have centered around (a) the universal applicability of Western generated categories of analysis, (b) the question of value, (c) the question of history and connectedness between polities, and (d) the weight of culture (meaning) in economic processes.
For the majority of categories, clinical applicability would be improved by exclusion of the ESR.
Given concerns about the applicability of standard criteria and categories in this cross-cultural and post-traumatic background, focus groups with local professionals were conducted at the beginning of the program in Gaza and the West Bank to better understand the cultural implications of presenting complaints and symptoms.
At this level of abstraction, talk of variables and the like does no more than reformulate the issues in symbolic mode, whereas the UAT is primarily a thesis concerning the applicability of a certain formal category to natural-language pre-philosophical thought or discourse.
The last category investigates the applicability of the 3GPP LTE interface to satellite transmission.
In order to analyse the applicability of the "dengue with warning signs" category of the revised case classification, the completeness of warning signs written in routine medical charts (prospective and retrospective assessments) were checked.
Moreover, given that at the time of analyses, clustering of some racial/ethnic groups in broader categories was made, the applicability of our results to underrepresented racial/ethnic groups could be limited.
