Drawing on ethnoarchaeological data collected in collaboration with Martu, Aboriginal foragers in Western Australia, here we test empirically-derived, mechanistic predictions on site size and material size sorting to show how these can inform theoretically-derived, adaptive predictions from the Marginal Value Theorem.
We show how, in South Africa and Sweden, the concept has been used to inform theoretically-based gender interventions and to ensure that men are brought into broader social efforts to build gender equity.
The primary purpose of this article is to detail the process of development of an empirically informed, theoretically driven treatment program designed to aid multiply diagnosed smokers in their attempts to become tobacco free.
These principles were informed theoretically by the notion of 'practice', which places a priori emphasis on what it is that people do, from day-to-day, in specific contexts and settings.
It is therefore important that care be increasingly informed by theoretically driven empirical knowledge that translates into practice [ 2].
As their role in the pilot in its current form focuses on awareness-raising and as providers of encouragement rather than the actual prescribers of treatment, the only persons they should theoretically inform are the CHWs.
The emphasis placed by the National Institutes of Health on adequate inclusion of minorities led to the opportunity for discovery of interracial differences in the glucose-HbA1c relationship, which could theoretically inform the answer to the question of why there are disparities in outcomes (33).
We describe how the behavior change management framework can be applied to inform the design of theoretically and empirically sound behavior change interventions with greater precision, predictability and pace towards reduction in neonatal mortality.
Drawing on a wider set of resources such as the use of cartoons contributes to this process through developing a rigorous and theoretically informed approach to patient engagement and information.
In this paper we have sought to develop theoretically informed methods for election prediction based on information seeking behaviour on Wikipedia, responding to existing critiques of predictions generated from new sources of socially generated data.
It can also prove practically useful in providing a theoretically informed approach to sampling (by drawing on informants that are related to the technology in question) and analysis (by providing a conceptual tool and vocabulary that can form the basis for interpretations).
