Three Forms of Contextual Dependence

Contextual Knowledge and Proceduralized Context

Based on our experience in the development of an interactive system for the control of subway lines, we set forward some notions about various forms of context and about context sharing. In effect, context plays a crucial role especially for incident solving on a subway line. The analysis of operators' behavior doing incident solving proved that context takes three different forms, namely exter...

Sociological Explanation of the Effect of Social Capital on the Forms of Alienation among Adult Residents of Tehran

One of the variables that can be effective in reducing social problems, including alienation, is social capital. Because each of its components, such as trust, participation and group bounds, can lead to greater integration and, consequently, social order. Hence, due to the importance of the subject, the sociological explanation of the impact of social capital on forms of alienation has been di...

A Review of the Contextual Adaptability of Three Contemporary Urban Paradigms: New Urbanism, Urban Village and Urban Renaissance

The Effect of Contextual Interference on Acquisition and Learning Badminton Skills among Children aged from 10 to 12

Age may limit the effect of contextual interference, but the accurate effect of age on contextual interference is not completely identified. Therefore, the purpose of the study was the effect of contextual interference practice orders on acquisition and learning of badminton skills of 45 female students aged from 10 to 12. Participants were randomly assigned to one of the three groups of bloc...

Decisions of Value: Going Backstage; Comment on “Contextual Factors Influencing Cost and Quality Decisions in Health and Care: A Structured Evidence Review and Narrative Synthesis”

This commentary expands on two of the key themes briefly raised in the paper involving analysis of the evidence about key contextual influences on decisions of value. The first theme focuses on the need to explore in more detail what is called backstage decision-making looking at how actual decisions are made drawing on evidence from ethnographies about decision-making. These studies point to l...