Speaking theoretically about population health

Theoretically Speaking

The MIS Quarterly has always had a strong focus on building and testing theory. In this regard, most research articles published in the MIS Quarterly have proposed a theory and then tested it either in whole or in part. In the June 1998 issue of the MIS Quarterly, however, Bob Zmud as then Editor-in-Chief issued a call for pure-theory submissions: research article submissions that had the sole ...

Theory as Practice: Thinking Theoretically About Health Promotion

Learning Objectives When you finish reading this chapter, you will be able to: Describe similarities between commonsense and scientific theories. 1. Choose a definition of scientific theory that makes the most sense 2. to you. Articulate a definition of theoretical thinking (or theorizing) and 3. theory. Further examine and test the notion of theories as stories. 4. Outline what theory/theorizi...

Speaking about the inner environment

This paper consists of comments on Wallace Chafe’s article “Accessing the mind through language.” The key notion is that of an “inner environment” which is the set of representations that are detached, i.e., standing for objects or

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What do we (not) know theoretically about solar neutrino fluxes?

Solar model predictions of 8B and p-p neutrinos agree with the experimentally determined fluxes (including oscillations): phi(pp)(measured)=(1.02+/-00.02+/-0.01)phi(pp)(theory) and phi(8B)(measured)=(0.88+/-0.04+/-0.23)phi(8B)(theory), 1sigma experimental and theoretical uncertainties, respectively. We use improved input data for nuclear fusion reactions, the equation of state, and the chemical...