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.
It addresses perception of the elements (3 items), comprehension of their meaning (3 items), and projection of future status (3 items) [ 40].
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.
IC and the procedures for obtaining IC are captured in legal, philosophical, institutional, and medical literature as a set of key elements – Information, Comprehension, Voluntariness, Competence, and Decision.
First, interviewers reported on their experiences with each of the four elements of the questions answering process (comprehension, retrieval, transformation and answering) plus the use of the reference period for each question.
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 Nuremberg Code can be understood to answer: the point of the disclosure process is that a research participant should at least "have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision".
