Sentence examples for empirical structure and from inspiring English sources

The most minimal form of structuralism focuses on empirical structure, and as such is best thought of as a defence of the cumulative nature of science in the face of Kuhnian worries about revolutions (following Post 1971).

The empirical structure and configural equivalence of students' attitude toward reading were analyzed using confirmatory factor analyses.

The theoretical structure informed our interpretation of the empirical structure and guided the selection of theoretically-derived factor labels.

Like Campbell, RTM accepts that rules of quantification must be grounded in known empirical structures and should not be chosen arbitrarily to fit the data.

Early measurement theorists formulated axioms that describe these qualitative empirical structures, and used these axioms to prove theorems about the adequacy of assigning numbers to magnitudes that exhibit such structures.

Regularities governing perovskite formability are investigated, by using empirical structure map methods and a total of 197 binary oxide systems.

This chapter describes the theoretical and empirical structure of the model, summarizes its applications and contributions to the literature, and discusses two example applications in detail.

Nuclear magnetic resonance solution structures, empirical structure-activity and structure-toxicity models were used to design synthetic octapeptins active against MDR and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) bacteria.

In this approach, termed "codon harmonization", synonymous codons from E. coli were selected that match as closely as possible the codon usage frequency used in the native gene, unless empirical structure calculations show that the codons are associated with putative link/end segments and therefore should be translated slowly.

In order to analyze discriminant validity, a multi-dimensional Rasch analysis was applied to examine the empirical separability (i.e., empirical structure) of the measures which form the dependent variables of our study (ACCEPTANCE and INTENTION measure) as well as the measures which the predictors of the affective domain (Astley and Francis [2010]).

Regularities governing cubic perovskites formability are obtained by using empirical structure map constructed by these two parameters, on this structure map, sample points representing systems of forming (cubic structure) and non-forming are distributed in distinctively different regions.