conceptual foundation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofconceptualandfoundation
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conceptual
adjective
uk/kənˈsep.tʃu.əl/us/kənˈsep.tʃu.əl/
based on ideas ...
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foundation
noun
uk/faʊnˈdeɪ.ʃən/us/faʊnˈdeɪ.ʃən/
an occasion when an organization, state, etc. ...
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He begins with a solid scientific,conceptualfoundationabout the effects of ambient conditions (temperature and humidity) on the viability of mature, orthodox seeds.
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Theconceptualfoundationof the proposed architecture is the decomposition of the information space into architectonic and semantic spaces.
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So, despite the broad scope of developmental psychopathology, the psychopathologic perspective remains central to the field and itsconceptualfoundation.
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Some further analysis of "disorder" is needed to form an adequateconceptualfoundationfor the field, for two main reasons.
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However, a thorough discussion of theconceptualfoundationof the system is not complete without at least a few notes on design and implementation.
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The aim of the next subsection is to show that such an approach is a firmconceptualfoundationon which to build (see sect. 2.2 in our target article).
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What we now call regional policy is a limited process of financial adjustment without a genuine politicalconceptualfoundationand is therefore quite inadequate.
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Of more importance to him was itsconceptualfoundationof total fighting freedom and functional efficiency to end a conflict quickly.
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The combined three forms of reasoning serve as a primaryconceptualfoundationfor the empirically based scientific method today.
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However, what the examples do not make clear are the conceptual foundations for these differences.
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This objection raises questions about the conceptual foundations of the criminal justice system which cannot be fully answered here.
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His analysis nonetheless remains embedded within broader contexts and it is underpinned by sophisticated conceptual foundations.
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The design principles which are theconceptualfoundationof permaculture were derived from the science of systems ecology and study of pre-industrial examples of sustainable land use.
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Conceptual foundations for verb learning : celebrating the event.
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In other cases, model builders and authors coincide, and the physicsts who develop the code's conceptual foundations are responsible for the implementation too.
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Quantum tic tac toe offers a way of introducing quantum physics without mathematics, provides aconceptualfoundationfor understanding the meaning of quantum mechanics, and is fun to play.
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The first year, consisting of 20 compulsory courses, creates an orientation of the academic facet of management sciences and aims at establishing a strongconceptualfoundation.
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Their celebrated friendship, which later became a bitter rivalry, remains inseparable from the conceptual foundations of the anatomical sciences, including comparative anatomy and paleontology.
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The first section discusses the conceptual foundations: research into second language memory, automaticity, attention, processing, and learnability.
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