Foucault's concept of 'discursive formation' captures this feature of ideology, defining it as a 'regularity (an order, correlations, positions and functionings, transformations)' between 'objects, types of statement, concepts, or thematic choices' (Foucault 1972: 38).
Widespread adoption of Internet technology has enabled medical schools to showcase their work, and most of the web sites include variations on the concept of mission statements.
Analyzing the logical consistency (logical structure of the concepts and statements) of the conceptual model/theory: Are there any logical fallacies in the structure of the conceptual model/theory?
In the second round, core concepts were extracted and synthesised by the authors and used to create working definitions which were then considered for refinement by the advisory group in order to create the final definitions: The term theory was defined as: 'a set of concepts and/or statements with specification of how phenomena relate to each other.
Information Content of Meta-concepts: According to Frege, the denotation of statement, p, must be identified by truth values or an infinite number of thoughts (cognitive processing).
It is a simple one; that the care bill should boldly enshrine the concepts of dignity and respect; a statement of intent and expectations, if you like.
The problems illustrated by this team's experience are encapsulated by Michael DeBakey's famous comment: 'All the circumstances of war surgery thus do violence to civilian concepts of traumatic surgery' - a statement that remains as true today as it did in 1942 when he developed the first Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals [ 7].
One must make do with concepts that are only partially defined and which fit in only ill-determined ways with other such concepts in statements of "law" in sociology.
They then refined their ideas to produce two to three statements for each of the core concepts, with each statement intended to capture features of their subdiscipline that they wanted general biology majors to master before graduation.
This paper details the collaborators' work in applying systems engineering principles and practices to ECMO therapies including the use of model based systems engineering (MBSE) to capture the ECMO domain, concept of operations, need statement, high level use cases, requirements, system and user behaviors, and both abstract and concrete structural designs.
