Knowledge, in its scientific and technological manifestations, refers not only to the codifiable, covert and explicit elements of comprehension that can be transferred extrinsically by learning, hard copy and skills but also to the tacit and implicit components of understanding held intrinsically in individuals, epistemic communities of practice and collective experience (Tidd and Izumimoto 2002).
We would recommend that biomedical interventions for discordant couples are combined with behavioral and structural components to integrate elements of comprehension of the complexity of the lived realities couples find themselves in with discordant HIV serostatus results.
Maintaining situational awareness, involving elements of perception, comprehension and prediction [31], during epidemics probably relies on these two types of information.
The special axioms vary, but the basis normally includes the principle of extensionality and some restricted form of the principle of comprehension, or some elements from which these can be deduced.
To test the influence of covariates on comprehension, partial and complete comprehension were pooled for each of the 11 elements and compared with the absence of comprehension.
We anticipated that breast cancer patients might report higher levels of comprehension of the elements of informed consent for the genetic study, compared to women in the control group, because of their more frequent interactions with the health care system.
It addresses perception of the elements (3 items), comprehension of their meaning (3 items), and projection of future status (3 items) [ 40].
In traditional China knowledge and the way in which it is obtained (method of comprehension) was viewed as an important element of human existence.
The presence of the interactional features that characterize the emotional experience seems to introduce a facilitation element for emotion comprehension, also producing a better description in the emotion labeling (more correct recognition).
Our objective was to determine the relationship between the degree of comprehension of the informed consent document plus the importance given to individual elements by potential participants of a hypothetical trial and their willingness to participate in such trials.
Natural disasters challenge our powers of comprehension.
