COMMUNITY ASSEMBLY: CONCEPTS, DOMAIN AND THEORETICAL STRUCTURE

Work Domain Analysis: Theoretical Concepts and Methodology

This report contributes to the development of a coherent theoretical and methodological approach for work domain analysis (WDA), the first phase of cognitive work analysis. The report: (1) addresses a number of conceptual issues relating to WDA, including differences in the approaches of Rasmussen, Pejtersen, and Goodstein (1994) and Vicente (1999); (2) proposes a methodology for performing WDA...

Terror management theory: Theoretical concepts, experimental research and Critics

Terror management theory (Greenberg, Pyszczynski & Solomon, 1986) considers the desire for survival as the underlying motivation for human behavior. Given his cognitive capacity and ability to think abstractly about the future, man realizes that his death is inevitable, which causes Paralysing terror. Man has developed certain psychological structures to protect himself from this terror. A cult...

identity and ir theoretical concepts

identity has emerged gradually within contemporary debates in social science and has led to vivid debates in international relations. the aim of this article is to show how identity, or identity-oriented approach, may affect fundamental theoretical concepts of ir. at first the importance of identity in theoretical and meta-theoretical debates in ir is discussed. then identity itself is conceptu...

Mesoscopic structure prediction of nanoparticle assembly and coassembly: theoretical foundation.

In this work, we present a theoretical framework that unifies polymer field theory and density functional theory in order to efficiently predict ordered nanostructure formation of systems having considerable complexity in terms of molecular structures and interactions. We validate our approach by comparing its predictions with previous simulation results for model systems. We illustrate the fle...

Basic Theoretical Concepts