Rehabilitation interventions in historical areas: conceptual and theoretical issues

Infant sleep interventions - Methodological and conceptual issues.

Conceptual issues concerning mediation, interventions and composition

Concepts concerning mediation in the causal inference literature are reviewed. Notions of direct and indirect effects from a counterfactual approach to mediation are compared with those arising from the standard regression approach to mediation of Baron and Kenny (1986), commonly utilized in the social science literature. It is shown that concepts of direct and indirect effect from causal infer...

Theoretical Issues in Conceptual Information Processing

Concrete Situation independent Situation dependent

Theoretical and Practical Issues of Evacuation Planning in Urban Areas

In December 2004, the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake occurred. It triggered tsunamis, and tragedy fell upon many people. Not only earthquakes but also diverse disasters occurred and caused serious damages in many countries. Therefore it is very important to establish crisis management systems against large-scale disasters such as big earthquakes, conflagrations and tsunamis to secure evacuation pat...

Imaging brain plasticity: conceptual and methodological issues--a theoretical review.

The neural plasticity associated with learning and development is increasingly being studied using functional neuroimaging methods such as positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). In this paper I outline a set of conceptual and methodological issues that are particularly relevant for the study of neural plasticity. A number of confounds, related to ch...