'Development Studies, a Progressive Research Tradition?' Comments

Progressive independence in clinical training: a tradition worth defending?

BACKGROUND Progressive independence is a traditional premise of clinical training. Recently, issues such as managed care, work hours limitation, and patient safety have begun to impact the degree of autonomy afforded to clinical trainees. This article reviews empirical evidence and theory pertaining to the role of progressive autonomy in clinical learning. METHOD A computerized literature sea...

a research concerning dionysius’s tradition in christianity

dionysius is one of the most important personages in christian mystic that some of his ideas were up to now popular ideas in christian theosophy, theology and philosophy. christian doctrine and neo-platonic ideas are viewed as two main sources for his opinions; although he sometimes leans to one and the rest to another. for example, in discussion about creation, angelology and trinity he tended...

Reflective System Development: A Significant Step Towards Building a Cumulative Tradition in IS Research on Systems Development?

Comments on Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan

Comment in response to Request for Information (RFI)-Federal Cybersecurity R&D Strategic Plan, posted by the National Science Foundation on 4/27/2015: https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2015/04/27/2015-09697/request-for-information-rfi-federal-cybersecurity-randd-strategic-plan. Background on authors: David Clark (MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) has led networ...

Tradition and Innovation in Scientists' Research Strategies

What factors affect a scientist’s choice of research problem? Qualitative research in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science suggests that this choice is shaped by an “essential tension” between the professional demand for productivity and a conflicting drive toward risky innovation. We examine this tension empirically in the context of biomedical chemistry. We use complex networks t...