In situations of "diminished capacity," which could mean an abnormality such as dementia or a personality disorder, a person may be incapable of forming a mens rea, or "guilty mind" — the intention and understanding behind a crime.
She teaches meditation all over the world, including at schools, retreat centers, synagogues, JCCs, hospitals, festivals, and conferences, all with the intention and understanding that truly sustainable repair of the world happens from the inside out.
Their perception of it may be very different from the author's intention; neither is right or wrong but simply reveals the slippage between intention, meaning, and understanding.
Objective: to explore the opinions, feelings and views of student midwives of their education as they progressed through their two-year programme in Ireland, with the intention of interpreting and understanding the working and learning world of the participants so that future students might be assisted to improve their educational experiences.
Objective: to explore the feelings and views of student midwives of their education as they progressed through their two-year programme in Ireland, with the intention of interpreting and understanding the working and learning world of the participants so that future students might be assisted to improve their educational experiences.
With the good intention of investigating and understanding health workers' experiences in using electronic forms on smartphones, two of the investigators conducted the data collection and analysis of the study.
"The investigation has also revealed that Nathan had intended to go fishing further offshore in a different location than what were his mother's intentions and understanding," the warrant said.
It was hoped that the emerging model would further identification of the determinants of behavioral intentions and understanding of human behavior (see Ajzen [2005]), and could contribute to planning and implementing educational-vocational interventions.
For Alito, Scalia, and Thomas are "originalists" -- justices who claim that it is not previous Supreme Court precedent that should govern, but instead the intentions and understanding of those who drafted the Constitution (and its amendments).
Interviewees described three problematic aspects of data sharing arising out of this isolation, namely the relation to informed consent and ethics approval; understanding the intentions and values of unknown secondary data users; and understanding the cultural background of sample donors.
"Despite the Herculean efforts of its litigation counsel at trial, U.R.I. could not overcome the apparent lack of communication of its intentions and understandings to defendants".
