Abstract Most educational literature on conceptual change concerns the process by which introductory students acquire scientific knowledge. However, with modern developments in science and technology, social significance of learning successive theories is steadily increasing, thus opening new areas interest to discipline-based education research, e.g., quantum logic, information, communication....

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Two traditional explanations for structural changes are sector-biased technological progress and non-homothetic preferences. This paper integrates both into an otherwise standard growth model and quantitatively evaluates them vis-a-vis time series. The exercise identifies a set of puzzles for standard theories: (i) the model cannot account for the steep decline in manufacturing and rise in serv...

Evolutionary Theories of Cultural Change: An Empirical Perspective Richard R. Nelson Columbia University Version: January18, 2005 Abstract Evolutionary theorizing in the social sciences has a long tradition, going back well before Darwin. Much of contemporary evolutionary theorizing by social scientists about the processes of change at work in various aspects of human culture for example scienc...

BACKGROUND Increasingly, health workforces are undergoing high-level 're-engineering' to help them better meet the needs of the population, workforce and service delivery. Queensland Health implemented a large scale 5-year workforce redesign program across more than 13 health-care disciplines. This study synthesized the findings from this program to identify and codify mechanisms associated wit...

People encounter an almost overwhelming quantity of information about human behavior and the social world everyday. Despite this information overload, humans are markedly adept at finding signal in the noise, interpreting the inputs in their complex environments in a way that both simplifies and makes meaning. People use a variety of shortcuts or heuristics to make sense of these stimuli (Tvers...

What theories or concepts are most useful at explaining socio technical change? How can - or cannot - these be integrated? To provide an answer, this study presents the results from 35 semi-structured research interviews with social science experts who also shared more than two hundred articles, reports and books on the topic of the acceptance, adoption, use, or diffusion of technology. This ma...

Telemonitoring and tele-rehabilitation show tremendous potential to be effective approaches for secondary prevention and rehabilitation in heart patients, such as Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) patients. However, studies show a gradual decline of interest, lack of motivation and resistance to modify behavioral patterns among patients over a period of time, resulting in a lack of therapy adherenc...

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