We aimed to find out if profiles of teachers can be identified based on their conceptions.
Nurses' attention to monitoring overweight in children, and their initiative for prevention, is based on their conceptions of the obstacles that hinder them in their efforts.
A five-cluster solution fitted the data best, resulting in five teacher profiles based on their conceptions as measured by the COLT.
Our first research question was whether we could identify teacher profiles in student-centred medical education, based on their conceptions of learning and teaching as measured with the COLT (with the scales 'teacher centredness'appreciationtiof of active learning' and 'orientation to professional practice').
Semi-structured interviews were chosen as the key instrument because it was the intent of this study to collect "in-depth information" from these insiders based on their emic understandings, conceptions, and attitudes about how English certification tests are viewed and used in the workplace.
Spermatozoa isolated DNA from two groups of buffalo bulls (n = 5), selected based on their artificial insemination generated conception rate data followed by IVF efficiency, were studied for global methylation changes using a custom-designed 180 K buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) CpG island/promoter microarray.
Eligible women included those who were between 18 and 39 years of age, reported smoking < 1 cigarette per day during pregnancy, were pregnant on 11 September 2001 (based on their estimated date of conception), and reported no diabetes, hypertension, HIV infection or AIDS, or use of illegal drugs in the preceding year.
Usually in conjoint analysis respondents have to rank conception cards based on their preferences.
If people's self-conceptions are based on their participation in such groups, even those whose liberties are denied may object to, and perhaps in some way harmed by, the imposition of liberal principles (Margalit and Raz, 1990; Tamir, 1993).
Conservative values and social norms favor stigmatisation of HIV-infected women, based on their gender and the possibility of conception and transmission of the disease to the baby [ 56], which makes them reluctant to disclose their HIV status and deprives them of much needed support of the family, friends and community [ 57].
Some commentators have noted that voters' decision to keep the death penalty was based more on their conception of "justice" than these other arguments.
