Here, normative-cultural explanations are developed to explain fertility behaviour and to obtain a deeper understanding of parental roles and roles within relationships.
Following a two-round, modified Delphi survey with representatives from academia, consultancy, health technology assessment agencies and the biomedical journal editorial community, a final set of 23 items deemed essential for transparent reporting, and accompanying explanations, was developed.
Still, it is noteworthy that this four-causal framework of explanation was developed initially in response to some puzzles about change and generation.
Descriptive coding (categorisation and ordering of all relevant data) and analytic coding (focussed and emergent induction) was performed to ensure that latent categories within the data were identified and that these were developed into thematic explanations of student and mentor experiences [ 34].
Mobilising the key tenets of the modern philosophical theory of explanation and the notion of abduction, grounded in pragmatist epistemology, we explicate how explanations may be developed and validated, yet remaining true to the core premises of IR.
The program, called MIX (Meta-analysis with Interactive eXplanations), has been developed over the past two years and has been presented at several stages of the development at a number of conferences [ 16- 19].
From a complexity theory point of view, only plausible explanations can be developed, not predictive theories, and here theory-driven approaches may help.
Thinkers of the period were developing explanations for natural phenomena that displaced the gods from their traditional roles as causes.
These explanation facilities can be developed using a hybrid of rule-based and evolutionary computation tools.
