List Of Key Concepts Research Articles

David N. Weil. Economic Growth. (Second Edition). New York: Addison Wesley Press, 2009. 565 pages. Paperback. Price not given.

Despite the great concern towards the issue of the convergence of economies, the world is still witnessing the gap between rich and poor being widened progressively. The book examines the interesting question of why some countries are rich and some are poor-why they differ in their levels of income and their rates of economic growth. Featuring the latest data, new case studies, and a number of significant additions in the content, the new Second Edition takes the Weil legacy further. The text develops a very balanced relevance of both macroeconomics’ classical roots and its current practice in the field of growth. Engagingly written, it brings into use simple models, close to reality examples, and instructive tables and figures to address the key issues. Chapter summaries, list of key concepts at the beginning of each chapter, questions for review, as well as problems and applications to help the diligent reader master the material he provides. The clarity of the writing, the richness of the empirical and quantitative descriptions, and the best available evidence of some of the modern economies confronting growth issues, however, would further deepen his interest.

What do economic scholars consider powerful economic knowledge of importance for people in their private and public lives? Implications for teaching and learning economics in social studies

ABSTRACT Based on Young’s notion of powerful knowledge, acquiring disciplinary knowledge emerging from an economic epistemic community is expected to make an important difference for people when dealing with economic issues in their daily lives. In this regard, this article’s author asked Swedish scholars of economics at higher education institutions what they considered to be the most important economic concepts that people would need to acquire and understand. The article provides knowledge about the case of Sweden as a contribution to existing research. Although the article does not suggest a list of key concepts, the results clearly bear close similarities to the economic concepts proposed within the framework of threshold concepts. These concepts is one important resource to be considered when deciding on what economic content students should have access to in school enabling them to face economic issues in their private and public lives.

Advance in Detecting Key Concepts as an Expert Model: Using Student Mental Model Analyzer for Research and Teaching (SMART)

While key concepts embedded within an expert’s textual explanation have been considered an aspect of expert model, the complexity of textual data makes determining key concepts demanding and time consuming. To address this issue, we developed Student Mental Model Analyzer for Teaching and Learning (SMART) technology that can analyze an expert’ textual explanation to elicit an expert concept map from which key concepts are automatically derived. SMART draws on four graph-based metrics (i.e., clustering coefficient, betweenness, PageRank, and closeness) to automatically filter key concepts from experts’ concept maps. This study investigated which filtering method extract key concepts most accurately. Using 18 expert textual data, we compared the accuracy levels of those four competing filtering methods by referring to four accuracy measures (i.e., precision, recall, F-measure, and N-similarity). The results showed the PageRank filtering method outperformed the other methods in all accuracy measures. For example, on average, PageRank derived 79% of key concepts as accurately as human experts. SMART’s automatic filtering methods can help human experts save time when building an expert model, and it can validate their decision making on a list of key concepts.

A community-informed list of key speciation concepts for undergraduate education

BackgroundMany topics in evolutionary biology have been the focus of little research about student thinking and learning. This lack of research limits the evidence base on which instructors can draw to inform their teaching. A key starting place for education research about evolutionary topics is determining what concepts are important for undergraduates to learn. This work develops a community-informed list of key concepts about speciation. Speciation is commonly taught in undergraduate biology education, yet has been the focus of almost no research on teaching and learning. We gathered input from over 110 evolution educators and speciation researchers to create a comprehensive list of speciation concepts for undergraduate education.ResultsThe community-informed list includes 24 concept statements organized within 4 overarching concepts. At least 80% of experts rated these statements as scientifically accurate and clear. Over 90% of experts rated the statements as important or somewhat important for a graduating senior in biology to understand.ConclusionsThis list provides a foundation for both education researchers and evolution educators. Education researchers who investigate student thinking and who develop research-based measurement tools can use this list to determine key concepts on which to focus their future work. Educators can use this list to guide the development of learning objectives for speciation instruction. Future work should investigate what concepts are reasonable for an undergraduate to master in a 4-year degree.

Наукометрический анализ культурно-исторического направления в научных публикациях 2009—2019 годов

One of the significant indicators for assessing the severity of the international transfer of scientific knowledge in the field of cultural-historical psychology and the activity approach is the nature of quoting key concepts and the main representatives of the approach in foreign sources. The article provides a bibliometric analysis of publications in Russian and English in order to identify the representation of key concepts of cultural-historical psychology in Russian and international publications in scientific journals for the period 2009—2019. A bibliometric analysis of publications (scientific articles) was carried out on the basis of the Russian Scientific Index citations (RSCI), Web of Science and Google Academy. A sample of 5669 publications. A list of key concepts and names of the main representatives of the cultural-historical approach in the amount of 27 words for bibliometric analysis is determined. The list of keywords is based on an expert assessment of leading Russian experts in the field of cultural-historical psychology. The number of experts was 50 people. Indicators of the h-Index (RSCI) of experts are from 8 to 32. A positive trend is revealed in increasing the growth rate of the number of publications containing key concepts of cultural-historical psychology in both Russian and English. The importance of individual thematic areas of research within the framework of one scientific field — cultural-historical psychology is shown.

‘All about Words’ [on Design]: On Glossolalia Project

The title I propose alludes to Joseph Mankiewicz’ movie, All about Eve (USA 1950), although the content has nothing to do with it, neither to its plot, except in the sense that nothing is what it seems to be. ‘All about words’ concerns the Glossolalia postdoctoral research now in progress at the Faculty of Architecture, Lisbon University, under the supervision of Dennis Doordan, Fernando Moreira da Silva and Luís Manuel A. V. Bernardo, supported by a fellowship by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT). The aim of this project is to clarify and discuss a list of words (or better yet, a list of key concepts) in its usual context(s), which are fundamental for a meaningful discourse that circulates in the field of Design. There are a number of design-related dictionaries available today. Without wishing to question their usefulness, they are far from reaching the level of certain dictionaries in other fields of knowledge, which they fail to match in terms of theoretical, critical and historical reach. The success of the Glossolalia project will require the prior identification of the terms, their genealogy and the contextualization of their use (historical, philosophical, critical, theoretical, social, cultural, political, ideological…), and a critical review of what is capable of producing meaning when applied to design. With this article I intend to stress the importance of words, since everything – Design included – is ‘all about words’.

David N. Weil. Economic Growth. (Second Edition). New York: Addison Wesley Press, 2009. 565 pages. Paperback. Price not given.

Despite the great concern towards the issue of the convergence of economies, the world is still witnessing the gap between rich and poor being widened progressively. The book examines the interesting question of why some countries are rich and some are poor-why they differ in their levels of income and their rates of economic growth. Featuring the latest data, new case studies, and a number of significant additions in the content, the new Second Edition takes the Weil legacy further. The text develops a very balanced relevance of both macroeconomics’ classical roots and its current practice in the field of growth. Engagingly written, it brings into use simple models, close to reality examples, and instructive tables and figures to address the key issues. Chapter summaries, list of key concepts at the beginning of each chapter, questions for review, as well as problems and applications to help the diligent reader master the material he provides. The clarity of the writing, the richness of the empirical and quantitative descriptions, and the best available evidence of some of the modern economies confronting growth issues, however, would further deepen his interest.

Learning to Drive the Transportation System

Members of a key set of players in the transportation planning process achieve positions of influence, not by virtue of training or experience in the field, but by virtue of popular election. These individuals often begin their service on metropolitan planning organization (MPO) governing boards with little or no background in transportation planning. What would it take to provide these “lay” governing board members with the knowledge they need to be effective decision makers in the transportation planning process? A study of MPO planning participants in Florida sought to answer this question. A combination of focus groups and survey research was used to develop a priority ranking of broad subject areas and a critical short list of key concepts for training MPO governing board members. While MPO structures and practices vary from state to state, MPO staff and other transportation professionals from across the country will find the research results described in this paper valuable when considering the probable training needs of their own MPO participants.

Constituent market orientation and ownership of virtual marketplaces

This paper applies new empirically‐based knowledge in the area of constituent market orientation to a seven‐element taxonometric model of virtual organisation. The most effective distribution of resources and management attention in the development of combinations of real and virtual business solutions is identified for each of the seven alternative configurations. The paper concludes with a list of key concepts that offer owners and managers of virtual organisations analytically based heuristics founded on cross‐sectoral empirical research.

Handbook for the Treatment of the Seriously Mentally Ill

N #{176} other psychiatric subject has eluded and challenged us as has schizophrenia. In this era of new discoveries, Hirsch and Weinbergen present us with a masterfully constructed collaboration of 63 international expelts in the field. This scholarly compendium summarizes the current knowledge base, research techniques, and treatments for schizophrenia. It is the essential reference text on schizophrenia and its myriad manifestations for students, clinicians, and researchers alike. The book is completely up to date, using not only DSM-IV and lCD-b criteria and paradigms but explaining how thinking in the field has evolved oven time. I particularly enjoyed the chapter by Ming Tsuang and associates on schizoaffective disorder. It begins with an interesting historical review of the concept, surveys the numenous diagnostic views and treatment considerations, and summarizes findings from epidemiological, genetic, and follow-up studies. All this in nine and a half pages! Furthermore, Dr. Tsuang’s straightforward and comprehensive approach is typical of the chapters in the book. This hefty text of more than 700 pages is divided into four parts: Descriptive Aspects, Biological Aspects, Physical Treatments, and Psychosocial Aspects. The 33 chapters are user friendly. Each begins with a list of key concepts and page references, allowing the reader to quickly gain access to areas of interest. The chapters are not overly long, have more than adequate references, and contain multipie easy-to-read tables and figures. Although all chapters are cleanly written and new concepts build on previously well explained fundamentals, this is not an easy text for the inexperienced student or beginning clinician. The emphasis on carefully delineating what is empirically known about an aspect of schizophrenia is evident throughout the book. The authors diligently present the studies that inform their thinking. For example, McGrath and Murray’s chapter on risk factors for schizophrenia includes four extensive tables summarizing research studies. Besides the book’s excellent coverage of basic issues such as diag-

Basic concepts for geriatrics/gerontological education.

The Interdisciplinary Health Care for the Aged (IDHCA) Project determined to identify key concepts in geriatrics/gerontology as building blocks for curriculum development in the health professions. A list of key concepts provides the health professions educator with a pool of data points by which geriatrics/gerontology can either be integrated into existing curricula or be developed into a separate curriculum component. This paper describes the IDHCA Project and the structured interactive group method used to identify basic geriatrics/gerontological conepts. Identified concepts are presented and recommendations for their use provided.

Primitive Christian Soteriological Themes

WHAT FOLLOWS is a working hypothesis, a provisional synthesis. It is not difficult to test the elements of such a hypothesis and to come to judicious conclusions as to the strengths and weaknesses of a proposed synthesis; the author would take it as a great kindness if shortcomings were called to his attention. But some such synthesis as this is desirable in the current state of theological discussion, and it may not be too early to try. After a long period in which questions of basic soteriologe received little attention, perhaps because it was assumed that we knew all that was necessary, theologians are showing a renewed interest in talking not only about how we may appropriate salvation but also what this salvation is which we are offered. Robert Gregg and Dennis Groh, in their recent book on early Arianism, have gone a step beyond the usual pro forma acknowledgment that questions of Christology reflect and depend upon questions of soteriology. They attempt to portray the soteriologies which they think were at stake in the Arian controversy and to show how they gave rise to the theological constructions of reality which characterize the main antagonists' thought. In this article their attempt is not at issue; but both their project and the problems attendant on any critical evaluation of it point up the shortcomings in our map of early Christian soteriological ideas. Edward Schillebeeckx offers us a list of key concepts in New Testament soteriology, but the word-study approach to biblical theology has weaknesses, and the list is so long that it gives only limited help in clarifying what salvation was thought to be. James Mackey has taken a bolder tack in his identification of the experience of the Spirit and the kingdom of God, first in Jesus himself and then, by a sort of contagion, in the disciples. Mackey is certainly onto something important, but liberation theologians and others could reasonably feel that his simplification has obscured or omitted essential themes of salvation which are found not only in the