Mindfulness, often defined as present-moment awareness, has in recent years become a topic of multidisciplinary interest. This article addresses methodological issues for researching mindfulness and education. It is argued that there are advantages to coherence between ontological epistemological positions when designing research studies. The limitations positivistic methods discussed. We then ...

Although indigenous peoples have lower life expectancies than the social majority populations in their countries, increasing numbers of indigenous people are living into old age. Research on indigenous elders is informed by a number of research traditions. Researchers have mined existing data sets to compare characteristics of indigenous populations with non-indigenous groups, and these finding...

This paper explores the external factors that influence the decision making process of young Asian females when they shop online for fashion clothing. The empirical investigation was carried out with a positivistic approach and a sample size of 142 young females in Pakistan. As females get more financially independent in developing Asian nations it leads to a question whether their buying decis...

To cope with the complexity of vision, most models in neuroscience and computer vision are of hierarchical and feedforward nature. Low-level vision, such as edge and motion detection, is explained by basic low-level neural circuits, whose outputs serve as building blocks for more complex circuits computing higher level features such as shape and entire objects. There is an isomorphism between s...

A revised conception of the relationship between psychological science and professional practice is proposed in the light of postmodern changes in perspectives on knowledge. Positivistic science, which has dominated the traditional interpretation of scientist-practitioner training, is considered from a constructivist point of view to be only one possible foundation of psychological knowledge. I...

Based on the search forest for positive programs as deened by Bol and Degerstedt, we deene a tabulated version of SLS-resolution that is sound and complete w.r.t. well founded semantics. In contrast to SLS-resolution as proposed by Przymusinski and by Ross, a positivistic computation rule is not required. This proposal is closely related to that of Chen and Warren, but it relies on tabulation f...

Introduction With the exception of research carried out by Bamberger (1977, 1978, 1991), studies of the music composition process have used predominantly positivistic approaches, in experimental, laboratory, non real-world scenarios for data collection. The aim of this paper is to describe the cognitive processes, in real-time, of a composer in the act of writing music by assuming an alternativ...

Since the 1980s, a number of frameworks have been proposed for understanding the concept of information system (IS) failure. Two approaches to IS failures seem particularly important: the concept of Expectation Failure and the concept of Termination Failure. We argue that there is an extra dimension to the problem that is not covered by those descriptive models, which we call the Outsourced IS ...