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Alison L Kitson, Jo Rycroft-Malone, Gill Harvey, Brendan McCormack + 2 more
'Kate Seers' 'Angie Titchen'] Background The PARiHS framework (Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services) has proved to be a useful practical and conceptual heuristic for many researchers and practitioners in framing their research or knowledge translation endeavours. However, as a conceptual…
Amalia Luque, Ana De Las Heras, María Jesús Ávila-Gutiérrez, Francisco Zamora-Polo
'Francisco Zamora-Polo'] This paper presents a conceptual framework for the optimization of environmental sustainability in engineering projects, both for products and industrial facilities or processes. The main objective of this work is to propose a conceptual framework to help researchers to approach optimization…
Andres Fernandez, Jeffrey B. Ratliff, Stefano Sandrone, Subha Ramani
This article discusses conceptual frameworks in neurology education research. We provide practical case examples highlighting the conceptual framework development process for different research scenarios in neurology education. We explore the steps that shape the conceptual framework process, including defining the…
Jialin Zhang, Hanna Salomon, Martin Nicola Huber, Harald Bugmann + 13 more
Interdisciplinary research is essential to address the complex environmental challenges faced by social-ecological systems (SES). However, it is often hindered by difficulties in integrating diverse knowledge and perspectives. Conceptual Frameworks (CFs) can act as boundary objects, facilitating integration in contexts…
Youngmin Baek, Esther Cho, Donghwan Shin, Doo‐Hwan Bae
Over recent decades, scenarios and scenario-based software/system engineering have been actively employed as essential tools to handle intricate problems, validate requirements, and support stakeholders' communication. However, despite the widespread use of scenarios, there have been several challenges for engineers to…
Ntombizodwa S.B. Linda, Hester C. Klopper, Deliwe R. Phetlhu
The process of concept identification required the arrangement of the concepts into a typology of relationships. The identified concepts were then characterised through an extensive literature description, which resulted in an emergent conceptual framework (Jabareen :50). The process was embedded in an iterative mental…
Nguyen Hoang Thuan, Pedro Antunes, David Johnstone
Emerging technologies and business models require organisations to continuously deal with complex, dynamic and unstructured issues, leading to the need for newer forms of decision support systems (DSS). However, in emerging environments the existing knowledge base can be scattered, unstructured, and sometimes…
Sandhya Samarasinghe, Tran Nguyen Minh-Thai
In biology, regeneration is a mysterious phenomenon that has inspired self-repairing systems, robots, and biobots. It is a collective computational process whereby cells communicate to achieve an anatomical set point and restore original function in regenerated tissue or the whole organism. Despite decades of research…
Liane Gabora, Diederik Aerts
We outline the rationale and preliminary results of using the state context property (SCOP) formalism, originally developed as a generalization of quantum mechanics, to describe the contextual manner in which concepts are evoked, used and combined to generate meaning. The quantum formalism was developed to cope with…
Manuel Gustavo Isaac
Conceptual engineering is the method for assessing and improving our concepts. However, little has been written about how best to conceive of concepts for the purposes of conceptual engineering. In this paper, I aim to fill this foundational gap, proceeding in three main steps: First, I propose a methodological…
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The exponentially growing body of scientific literature has made manual synthesis and hypothesis generation increasingly impractical, introducing an essential bottleneck in the scientific discovery pipeline. While large language models (LLMs) have unprecedented capability to process and summarize textual knowledge…
Peter Wilczynski, Taylor Gregoire-Wright, Daniel J. Jackson
Developers have long recognized the importance of the concepts underlying the systems they build, and the primary role that concepts play in shaping user experience. To date, however, concepts have tended to be only implicit in software design with development being organized instead around more concrete artifacts…
V. C. Storey, R. Lukyanenko, A. Castellanos
Conceptual modeling is an important part of information systems development and use that involves identifying and representing relevant aspects of reality. Although the past decades have experienced continuous digitalization of services and products that impact business and society, conceptual modeling efforts are…
Bruno Travassos-Britto, Renata Pardini, Charbel El-Hani, Paulo Prado
Ecology has suffered criticisms related to its theoretical development, in particular, that ecology does not have a unified explicit theory. However, the pragmatic view of science – a strand of the most commonly held view of science among philosophers of science (semantic view), assumes that the theory is an aspect of…
Jorge Pérez, Jessica Díaz, Ángel González-Prieto, Sergio Gil-Borrás
research: Operationalization Authors: ['Jorge Pérez' 'Jessica Díaz' 'Ángel González-Prieto' 'Sergio Gil-Borrás'] Context: This work is part of a research project whose ultimate goal is to systematize theory building in qualitative research in the field of software engineering. The proposed methodology involves four…
Yukun Qu, Jianxin Ou, Luoyao Pang, Shuqi Wu + 3 more
Piaget’s theory posits that children develop structured knowledge schemas for inferring and assimilating new information, yet the underlying neural mechanisms remain unclear. In 203 participants aged 8–25 years, we investigated how maturation of a two-dimensional (2D) knowledge map underpins inferential reasoning and…
Shubin Liu, Chunying Rong, Dongbo Zhao, Xin He
Density functional theory well-recognized by its accuracy and efficiency has become the workhorse for modeling the electronic structure of molecules and extended materials in the past decades. Nevertheless, how to establish a density-based conceptual framework to appreciate bonding, stability, function, reactivity, and…
Matteo Visconti di Oleggio Castello, Tom Dupré la Tour, Jack L. Gallant
Each person experiences the world through a unique conceptual lens, shaped by personal experiences, natural variations, or disease. These individual differences have remained largely inaccessible to cognitive neuroscience and clinical neurology, limiting the development of precision medicine approaches to cognitive…
José J. F. Ribas Fernandes, Clay B. Holroyd
Current theories of planning associate the hippocampus with a cognitive map, a theoretical construct used to predict the consequences of actions. This formulation is problematic for two reasons: First, cognitive maps are traditionally conceptualized to generalize over individual episodes, which conflicts with evidence…
Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi, Julian Zubek
Research concerning concepts in the cognitive sciences has been dominated by the information-processing approach, which has resulted in a certain narrowing of the range of questions and methods of investigation. Recent trends have sought to broaden the scope of such research, but they have not yet been integrated…
Daffara, Agnese, Dattawad, Sourabh + 4 more
Frames capture aspects of an issue that are emphasized in a debate by interlocutors and can help us understand how political language conveys different perspectives and ultimately shapes people's opinions. The Media Frame Corpus (MFC) is the most commonly used framework with categories and detailed guidelines for…
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More sustainable chemical processes require the selection of suitable molecules, which can be supported by computer-aided molecular design (CAMD). CAMD often generates and evaluates molecular structures using genetic algorithms. However, genetic algorithms can suffer from slow convergence, and might yield suboptimal…
Charlotte Neidiger, Tarek Saier, Kai Kühn, Victor Larignon + 12 more
In this work, a concept for an open chemistry knowledge base was developed to integrate chemical research results into a collaboratively usable platform. To achieve this, we enhanced Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) to support the collection and structured summary of chemical data contained in publications. We implemented…
Alejandro Marín-Gutiérrez, Emiliano Díez Villoria, Ana María González
A vast body of evidence has shown that concrete nouns are processed faster and more accurately than abstract nouns in a variety of cognitive tasks. This phenomenon is widely known as the concreteness effect and explanations for its occurrence seem to reflect differences in processing and organization between both type…
Keisuke Ozawa, Teppei Suzuki, Shunsuke Tonogai, Tomoya Itakura
Developing foundation models for materials science has attracted attention. However, there is a lack of studies on inorganic materials due to the difficulty in the comprehensive representation of geometric concepts composing crystals: local atomic environments, their connections, and the global symmetries. We present a…
Tianfan Jin, Brett M Savoie
Contemporary machine learning algorithms have largely succeeded in automating the development of mathematical models from data. Although this is a striking accomplishment, it leaves unaddressed the multitude of scenarios, especially across the chemical sciences and engineering, where deductive, rather than inductive…