Revisiting CLIL: Background, Pedagogy, and Theoretical Underpinnings

Theoretical Underpinnings of Version Spaces

Mitchell's version-space approach to inductive concept learning has been highly influential in machine learning, as it formalizes inductive concept learning as a search problem—to identify some concept definition out of a space of possible definitions. This paper lays out some theoretical underpinnings of version spaces. It presents the conditions under which an arbitrary set of concept definit...

Engineering and theoretical underpinnings of retrenchment

Refinement is reviewed, highlighting in particular the distinction between its use as a specification constructor at a high level, and its use as an implementation mechanism at a low level. Some of its shortcomings as specification constructor at high levels of abstraction are pointed out, and these are used to motivate the adoption of retrenchment for certain high level development steps. Basi...

Glutamate Neurocircuitry: Theoretical Underpinnings in Schizophrenia

The Dopamine Hypothesis of Schizophrenia is actively being challenged by the NMDA Receptor Hypofunctioning Hypothesis of Schizophrenia. The latter hypothesis may actually be the starting point in neuronal pathways that ultimately modifies dopamine pathways involved in generating both positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia postulated by the former hypothesis. The authors suggest that ev...

Some theoretical underpinnings of knowledge translation.

A careful analysis of the definition of knowledge translation highlights the importance of the judicious translation of research into practice and policy. There is, however, a considerable gap between research and practice. Closing the research-to-practice gap involves changing clinical practice, a complex and challenging endeavor. There is increasing recognition that efforts to change practice...

Theoretical Background