Necessity Of Theory Research Articles

Sequence and gelation in supramolecular polymers.

Supramolecular polymer networks exhibit unique and tunable thermodynamic and dynamic properties that are attractive for a wide array of applications, such as adhesives, rheology modifiers, and compatibilizers. Coherent states (CS) field theories have emerged as a powerful approach for describing the possibly infinite reaction products that result from associating polymers. Up to this point, CS theories have focused on relatively simple polymer architectures. In this work, we develop an extension of the CS framework to study polymers with reversible bonds distributed along the polymer backbone, opening a broad array of new materials that can be studied with theoretical methods. We use this framework to discern the role of reactive site placement on sol-gel phase behavior, including the prediction of a microstructured gel phase that has not been reported for neutral polymer gels. Our results highlight the subtleties of thermodynamics in supramolecular polymers and the necessity for theories that capture them.

On the Necessity of Implementing the Quality and Effectiveness Evaluation of Third-party Court Cases

The third-party court case quality and effectiveness evaluation has theoretical rationality different from the court 's internal self-quality and effectiveness evaluation in the court case quality and effectiveness evaluation, and has unique subject value attributes; however, the current internal self-evaluation system of the court has limitations in terms of evaluation elements such as subject, content, method, purpose and effectiveness, and cannot fully realize the functional requirements of the quality and effectiveness evaluation of court cases. The implementation of the third-party court case quality and effectiveness evaluation is not only in line with the value of judicial operation, but also has the value of the rule of law practice different from the self-quality and effectiveness evaluation within the court. Therefore, the implementation of the third-party court case quality and effectiveness evaluation has the necessity of theory and practice, and is an important part of the court case quality and effectiveness evaluation.

Understanding Ziegler–Natta catalysis through your laptop

This article focuses on the different components that make up Ziegler–Natta olefin polymerization systems and shows how investigating the interactions between these components through computational approaches provide crucial information about the chemistry of these systems. Hence, the necessity of theory acting as a counterpoint to experiment is revealed, underlining the importance of computational chemistry in attacking important problems of the day.

Necessità della teoria

From a point of view that is internal to the discipline of architecture, this text traces the ways in which architectural theory has been produced in Italy by establishing a dialogue with Stephan Truby. In his Necessita della teoria (1983) Gregotti sets a starting point for describing theoretical studies in Italy at a moment that was particularly significant for architectural practice in Italy and Europe. The necessity for theory is called on as «material structurally indispensable to the architectural profession», but the fragmentation of theoretical production is nonetheless ackowledged, a fragmentation that is still visible today. Through an excursus of a number of texts that, from 2008 on, have attempted to bring back to the center of the profession the production of theory, it is made clear how design research aims first and foremost at understanding and interpreting the complexity of a changing world.

Modeling and Theories of Pathophysiology and Physiology of the Basal Ganglia-Thalamic-Cortical System: Critical Analysis.

Theories impact the movement disorders clinic, not only affecting the development of new therapies but determining how current therapies are used. Models are theories that are procedural rather than declarative. Theories and models are important because, as argued by Kant, one cannot know the thing-in-itself (das Ding an sich) and only a model is knowable. Further, biological variability forces higher level abstraction relevant for all variants. It is that abstraction that is raison d’être of theories and models. Theories “connect the dots” to move from correlation to causation. The necessity of theory makes theories helpful or counterproductive. Theories and models of the pathophysiology and physiology of the basal ganglia–thalamic–cortical system do not spontaneously arise but have a history and consequently are legacies. Over the last 40 years, numerous theories and models of the basal ganglia have been proposed only to be forgotten or dismissed, rarely critiqued. It is not harsh to say that current popular theories positing increased neuronal activities in the Globus Pallidus Interna (GPi), excessive beta oscillations and increased synchronization not only fail to provide an adequate explication but are inconsistent with many observations. It is likely that their shared intellectual and epistemic inheritance plays a factor in their shared failures. These issues are critically examined. How one is to derive theories and models and have hope these will be better is explored as well.

The Necessity of Theory

Abstract Response to “Theses on Theory” by Jacqueline E. Gresham.

Thinking About Theory in Educational Research: Fieldwork in philosophy

This article responds to and reflects upon the articles in this special issue. Specifically, it deals with the usage of theory in each of the articles, what we might see, as examples of re-descriptive usage in autonomous theorizing. The articles utilize different theories and varying intellectual resources—Foucault and Deleuze (Richard Niesche), Bourdieu (Carmen Mills), Levinas (Sam Sellar) and Butler (Christina Gowlett)—to analyse the topic of the My School website and associated new accountabilities in Australia schooling. This article argues that their usage of the My School website must be seen as a condensation symbol to signify a broader neo-liberal agenda in Australian schooling that has global as well as national elements to it. The fact that the social today is no longer straightforwardly homologous with the nation also challenges ‘methodological nationalism’ and suggests the pressing need to ‘deparochialize’ theory in research and reject a reading of Northern theory as universal. The article uses the provocations of these articles to reflect upon the necessity of theory in educational research more generally, and to consider its usage in research with different purposes, while accepting that theory should be endemic in all stages of research. Theory serves a different purpose in research with different goals; quantitative correlational research demands theory to move to explanation, interpretive research requires theory to strengthen interpretation and plausibility, while critical research utilizes theory to uncover the hidden as a step towards emancipation. These articles implicitly suggest alternative forms of accountability and politics, but I argue in conclusion that, additionally, we need a broader politics that will move us towards a non-utopian post neo-liberal social imaginary.

Evaluating Listening Theory: Development and Illustration of Five Criteria

Scholars have lamented the lack of focus on theory-driven listening research for several decades. Unfortunately, these discussions have made little headway toward making listening research more grounded in theory. This article argues that one reason for the lack of focus on developing and testing listening theory is that listening researchers may not fully understand the nature and necessity of theory. Thus, a working definition for theory is proposed and a set of criteria that can be used to evaluate social scientific theories of listening is deduced. These criteria are then used to evaluate two listening theories. The article concludes by illustrating how these criteria can be used to inform the development of new listening theory.

On the role(s) of modelling in cognitive science

Although work on computational and robotic modelling of cognition is highly diverse, as an empirical method it can be roughly divided into at least two clearly different, though non-exclusive branches, motivated to evaluate the sufficiency or the necessity of theories when it comes to accounting for data and/or other observations. With the rising profile of theories of situated/embodied cognition, a third non-exclusive avenue for investigation has also gained in popularity, the investigation of agent-environment embedding or more generally, exploration. Still in its infancy, and often confused with sufficiency testing, this relatively new kind of modelling, which is theory- rather than data-driven, investigates the role of the environment in shaping the ontogenetic and/or phylogenetic development of situated agency. Each of these three approaches presents many issues that modellers must be sensitive to, both in the design of experiments, and in the conclusions that can be drawn from them. This paper highlights some of these issues, provides examples, and addresses the contribution of computational/robotic modelling to cognitive science, as well as some of its limitations.

Psychology and Epidemiology: An Uncomfortable Alliance?

Issues arising in a joint enterprise of psychology and epidemiology are discussed. Technical difficulties include: case definition; population definition; definition of onset; repeated admissions; çase-to-case spread; social factors; and the social production of symptoms. The potential marginalization of psychosocial issues in epidemiology is discussed in terms of the prevailing western medical model, biomedicine. The disease—illness distinction is used to explore the limitations of using epidemiological concepts and methods with psychological data and also with medical data. It is suggested that psychology plays a role in transforming epidemiology by emphasizing the necessity for theory, removing inappropriate interdisciplinary boundaries, using qualitative methodology, avoiding a technicist approach, contributing to the clear design of studies and to an examination of the nature of the epidemiological enterprise.

Back to Bakhtin

In Britain in the 1970s there were effectively two possible positions for Marxist literary critics, symbolized by two names, E.P. Thompson and Louis Althusser, and by two rival annual gatherings, the Oxford History Workshop and the Essex Sociology of Literature Conference. In intellectual terms they could be characterised as the Marxist humanism developed by the New Left after the 1956 Twentieth Party Congress in the USSR and the anti-humanist structuralist Marxism advanced in the late sixties and seventies. The arguments between the two camps, finally devolving onto the question of the poverty or necessity of theory, only ceased with the autocritical self-destruction of Althusserianism by the Althusserians.'

The necessity of theory

The necessity of theory