In 1933 Fermi's theory of the beta decay started with conceptions describing the emission and absorption of photons, transferred them to beta radiation and analyzed the creation and annihilation of electrons and neutrinos (weak interaction).
They have to consider the degree to which a conception (in comparison with other conceptions) describes an achievable and sustainable system of social cooperation, and whether the institutions and demands of such a society will attract people's willing compliance and generally engage their sense of justice.
Beliefs and conceptions describe how teachers think about learning and teaching, while teaching strategies or approaches describe how they teach.
There's real shock value in hearing about (what we must presume to be) this narrator's own conception, described with hilarious ribaldry, and summed up in one curt opening sentence: "It was finished almost as soon as it began".
Horgan and Tienson suggest that their conception of phenomenal intentionality is similar to "the approach of so-called two-dimensional modal semantics" (Horgan and Tienson 2002, note 26; cf. Horgan, Tienson and Graham 2004, note 13), of which the maximal epistemic possibilities conception described in section 4.4 is a version.
This conception, described by Belsky as the "Differential Susceptibility Hypothesis" (Belsky, 1997) suggests that some children, most notably those with a reactive temperament, are more likely to be affected by environmental influences than less reactive children.
Like Taylor, he recalls details that fit with his self-conception, describing the crime as part of an unfortunate pattern in his life.
In the Discussion section, current limitations of both the conceptualisation and instrumentation of instructional conceptions are described and perspectives are opened on further research.
We thought a (rather pompous) article by lesbian separatist feminists was riveting (especially the bit where for the very first time in mainstream journalism the turkey-baster method of conception was described); the chaps weren't amused.
Our approach is highlighted in the sketch shown in Fig. 1 which is based on further developing the non-centrosymmetric layer conception recently described [6].
