For example, if the point of operationalizing a concept was to make its meaning clear and precise, which meant using "operations which can be unequivocally performed" (Bridgman 1938, 119), then why were paper-and-pencil operations such as the construction of Euclidean geometric figures not just as good as instrumental operations?
In designing controlled laboratory studies of complex concepts such as anger, wisdom, or empathy, there is much to be learned from philosophical literatures and studies in the social sciences about the implications of operationalizing these concepts in particular ways [16].
As will be discussed in the next section, the difficulties of operationalizing these concepts may be one of the most significant challenges to adopting holistic practices in public health.
This has provoked three major ways of operationalizing the enhancement concept, each of which seeks to redress the weaknesses of its predecessor, which are covered in the next three subsections.
An associative activation map (sometimes called a "spreading activation" map, Collins and Luftus 1975) is a mapping for a single thinker of all the associative connections between concepts.[16] There are many ways of operationalizing associative connections.
However, quality of care has been traditionally a difficult concept to operationalize.
However, there are criticisms of the feasibility of such concepts when operationalizing them, due to possible constraints to capacities caused by poverty, weak institutions, or unproductive environments, among other examples (Jauhola 2015).
In addition, in many other studies the concept of 'leisure' is operationalized as 'going out at night during weekends' (e.g. Gottfredson [1984]).
But how can the concept of resilience be operationalized to help policy makers in their mission?
The concept of RA to operationalize pretest probability assessment in AKI appears to have good performance metrics.
