Studies increasingly measure specific characteristics of the social and built environment, use purposeful definitions of areas in contrast to relying on administrative boundaries and analyse specific outcomes rather than, for instance, all-cause mortality or self-rated health [ 4].
To situate their work, the authors cite the Delphi Report's (Facione, 1990) definition of critical thinking as "purposeful, self-regulatory judgment that results in interpretation, analysis, evaluation, and inference as well as explanation of the evidential, conceptual, methodological, criteriological, or contextual considerations upon which that judgment is based".
The fact that one in five CAM users answered "I have never used CAM" indicates a gap in communication which may be due to either a confusion over the definition of "complementary medicine" or the purposeful concealment of the use of CAM, possibly due to the belief that declaring the use of CAM may negatively interfere with the healing relationship between doctor and patient.
23 Purposeful and theoretical sampling based on an a priori definition of participants' characteristics was carried out to obtain optimal variety and discursive wealth.
This is captured in a current definition of critical thinking: 'the ability to engage in purposeful, self-regulatory judgment'.
The operational definition of critical thinking is a metacognitive, nonlinear process of purposeful judgment that includes self-directed learning and self-assessment[ 13, 14].
Nevertheless, the classical definition of "coping", one at the core of most others, is "purposeful efforts to manage or modify the negative impact of stress" [ 7].
José Mourinho's claim that his side deliberately gave the ball away so as not to lose focus may have been exaggeration for the sake of bravado but, whether purposeful or not, to prosper having had so little of the ball seems almost the definition of anti-football.
All three definitions though focus on different contexts, share similarities in that they emphasize purposeful critical analysis of knowledge and experience so as to achieve deeper meaning and understanding.
Though the United States does not acknowledge the removal of organs in its definition, it does recognize sex and labour trafficking and describes human trafficking as the purposeful transportation of an individual for exploitation.
