Sentence examples for theory of context from inspiring English sources

Illustrating his theory of context, he cites what criminologists have called the Broken Windows theory, which, he says, may explain why Mayor Rudolf W. Giuliani's campaign to eliminate squeegee men and other minor blights on the quality of life in New York City was followed by a major drop in crime statistics.

Simonson et al. present an ambitious sketch of an integrative theory of context.

He argues for the former, based upon the common perspective in the theory of context and language in which they form a connotative semiotic system.

In other words, the kind of potential that is built into Hasan (1978 , 1984) specifications of generic structure potential (GSP) is represented systemically here — which is, of course, in line with her theory of context.

Two recent examples are Benn et al's 2009 mixed method study of a UK patient safety initiative 17 and Greenhalgh et al's 2009 study of large-scale complex improvement programme in London, UK. 18 One approach to develop theory of context is to collect a cross section of informants' views about aspects of context which they suggest were important at different stages of implementation.

In the theory of context-free grammars, this is equivalent to requiring a leftmost derivation.

Diversity effect could be explained by a learned theory of context-free, "causal unity underlying disparate species" (p. 72).

This is in accordance with the theory of context-based learning [ 4] and the hypothetical model of therapeutic reasoning [ 35]; Learning by doing in the context of the future profession could stimulate therapeutic script development and evolution [ 12].

These findings are contrary to theories of context and research use (e.g., PARiHS [ 34, 35]); however, these theories focus on instrumental research use.

We have undertaken a multi-level mixed method research programme to inform the building of a theory of neighbourhood context, depression and the developmental origins of health and disease [ 24].

The cognitive tasks on which patients perform poorly include not only neuropsychological or neurocognitive tests of memory, attention, and executive functioning, but also tests of social cognition such as perception of affect, emotional awareness, theory of mind, context sensitive processing, and emotional reasoning.