Human factors and highway-accident causation: Some theoretical considerations

Human Factors and Highway-accident Causation: Some Theoretical Considerations

Traditional correlational analyses of human skills and highway accidents have not been ver) productive. Some of the likely reasons for this are discussed. An alternative approach to accident-cautation research is outlined in which the importance of a skill with good face validity to driving is assessed in terms of its sensitivity to frequently occurring transient human states such as fatigue, s...

Coteaching: Some Theoretical Considerations

In this article, I present some theoretical considerations that go with coteaching and cogenerative dialoguing. These considerations are rooted in my reading of cultural historical activity theory and critical psychology. Both are particularly suited for analyzing and theorizing complex practices such as teaching and learning in schools for several reasons. First, it requires us to take a first...

Some Theoretical Considerations on Caste

Caste as a system of social stratification was an encompassing system in the past. There was reciprocal system of exchange goods and services. With time, occupation and mode of generation of livelihood of various caste groups changed, and the traditional form of jajmani system fizzled out. This paper provides an account of changing perspectives of caste relations in social science writing and p...

Factors affecting accident causation in agricultural machine operations.

Some theoretical considerations on integration of ontologies

In this paper, we discuss integration of multiple ontologies in a formal way. First, we formalize ontology as combination of logical theories with modality. We introduce two types of integration. Combination aspect connects heterogeneous aspects in which aspect theories are simply merged. On the other hand, category aspect connects homogeneous aspects in which aspect theories are connected with...