The persistent practices of using tiger parts as talismans, tonics, or medicine, despite all scientific evidence contrary to their efficacy, are manifestations of beliefs that emanate from the aura of the tiger and the awe that it has inspired for millennia.
"I fear they've heard of us down there," Mr. McCall Smith said, slightly concerned that they might also have heard a pernicious rumor that, thanks to persistent practice, the orchestra was less bad than it used to be.
It's persistent practice.
It follows that the emerging best practice of using persistent identifiers (data-DOIs) to cite data within an article narrative or elsewhere necessitates a machine operable path from the persistent identifier to the data, particularly where data is made available on fully open terms.
Now, the judgment that a human being is "not a person", made in the wake of that individual's persistent unethical behavior, implies that the practice of moral virtue is considered intrinsic to the conception of a person held in Akan or Yoruba moral thought.
We used the PSC and Teacher Leadership Preparation (TLP) models as the starting place for addressing this persistent problem of practice.
We are using a DBIR approach in this work, building from the district's vision and recognition of their persistent problems of practice during the Design Phase to design, implement, analyze, and revise the PSC and TLP models.
In DBIR work, partners focus on persistent problems of practice, define shared goals, and establish a commitment to study the process of designing, adapting, and implementing the intervention so it provides mutual benefits (Fishman et al. 2013).
