CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING OF HOMEOSTASIS

A Qualitative Investigation Into Conceptual Understanding at Iranian Elementary Schools

This study attempts to root out some of the causes of absence of conceptual understanding in elementary level particularly in math subject and the factors that cause this deficiency. As a body of researchers, we use a quasi-form of methodology qualitatively designed by which we give a pre-test and post-test to our participants (randomly selected teachers and students), through some open-ended q...

Understanding By Conceptual Inference

Asymmetric War: A Conceptual Understanding

The term asymmetric war is a product of the revolution in military affairs (RMA). It can be taken as fresh jargon to distinguish the modern variant from traditional partisan and guerrilla war conducted by irregular bands using unconventional methods. In short, it is nothing new; only the cosmopolitan veneer is so. Since the Indian Army has vast experience dating to the preindependence period in...

Language and Conceptual Development series Conceptual development and conversational understanding

Children’s understanding of the implications of conversation can influence their responses on tasks designed to measure conceptual development. These responses are in keeping with developmental changes in the ability to recognize and resolve ambiguity in communicative contexts, as shown, for example, in children’s ability to compute ‘scalar implicatures’. Examining steps children take to overco...

A Method of Understanding Conceptual Diagrams

A conceptual diagram is a line drawing which represents semantic structure of concepts usirtg simple yeometric entities. This paper presents a method of understanding conceptual diagrams. The objective of our method is to interpret semantic roles of geometric entities in conceptual diagrams. In conceptual diagrams, however, a single geometric entity plays various semantic roles for representing...