Historically, couvade has been poorly defined; it has encompassed practices that are quite divergent in terms of timing, participants, activity, and cause.
The element of culture can encompass practices of cultural events but also represent the overarching element of meanings in practices.
To this regard, the efforts to train professionals are based on an overarching, big picture of a professional area, which encompasses practices and a professional identity.
Pasture management encompasses practices related to grazing: time of turn-out, length of grazing period, age composition of flocks, co-grazing with other species and frequency of pasture changes, although other factors like type of herbage and productivity, stocking rates and parasite contamination levels at turn-out also are very important.
Another conceptual framework describes seven different integrated models which encompass individual practice, integrative group practice and practice integration within institutional settings such as hospitals and universities [ 22].
Further, child accounting encompassed mundane practices which could activate disciplinary power such as continuous hierarchical surveillance and normalising judgment.
This composite genre encompassed various practices that mixed traditional and electronic instruments—namely, guitars and keyboards in extended experimental, instrumental, and ambient jams, conjuring up kosmisch, psyched-out and hazy atmospheres.
Religion in the Roman Empire encompassed the practices and beliefs the Romans regarded as their own, as well as the many cults imported to Rome or practised by peoples throughout the provinces.
In spring 2009, we approached two national private practice networks that encompass 150 practices and that demand a quality certification from their members.
This paper discusses the issues of designing a new clinical pathway that encompasses best practice, is woman friendly and allows for individualised care rather than routine rituals.
