The Nature and Value of Scientific System Building: The Case of Interbehaviorism

SummaryThis paper describes a “system-building system”, ESSENTIAL-ATTENDING (E-ATTEND-ING), designed to assist in the implementation of expert systems which critique a physician’s plan for patient care. E-ATTENDING has been refined during the implementation of several developmental critiquing systems and may be applied in areas of medical management, patient workup, and differential diagnosis. E-ATTENDING is currently designed to help implement a class of critiquing systems in a subset of possible critiquing domains. It can also be augmented in various ways by interested users to accommodate critiquing domains with more complexity.

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The Political Economic Structure of Early Media Reform Before and After the Communications Act of 1934

Resonance ◽

10.1525/res.2020.1.3.244 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (3) ◽

pp. 244-266

Author(s):

Josh Sheppard

Keyword(s):

Rocky Mountain ◽

Advisory Council ◽

National Committee ◽

Media Activism ◽

Educational Broadcasting ◽

System Building ◽

Before And After ◽

National Advisory Council ◽

Media Reform ◽

Activist Groups

This paper examines how early media reform work evolved from political activism into a system-building advocacy campaign in support of Schools of the Air between 1930 and 1940. Calling upon archival work that focuses on 1935–1940 records, it examines how prominent activist groups the National Committee for Education by Radio (NCER) and the National Advisory Council for Radio in Education (NACRE) shifted their strategic approaches to adjust to the “public interest” mandate of the Communications Act of 1934. Though scholarship has chronicled disagreements between the NCER and NACRE over how to best support educational broadcasting, a dialectical interplay emerged after the act during the New Deal due to the influence of the Federal Radio Education Committee (FREC). FREC inspired A.G. Crane of the NCER to build the Rocky Mountain Radio Council (RMRC). The RMRC was the first sustainable educational media network, and the group coined the term public broadcasting. While the Communications Act signaled the end of the first wave of media activism, the policy also inspired reformers to develop a new system-building strategy that set the groundwork for NPR and PBS.

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Discussions on Higher Vocational Accounting Practice Teaching System Building

2018 International Conference on Social Sciences, Education and Management (SOCSEM 2018) ◽

10.25236/socsem.2018.198 ◽

2018 ◽

Keyword(s):

Teaching System ◽

Accounting Practice ◽

System Building ◽

Practice Teaching

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After Arminius

10.1093/oso/9780190874193.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Thomas H. McCall ◽

Keith D. Stanglin

Keyword(s):

Primary Sources ◽

Reformed Theology ◽

Proper Understanding ◽

System Building ◽

Wide Range ◽

Modern Thought ◽

History Of ◽

The Subject ◽

Vision Of God ◽

Important Position

“Arminianism” was the subject of important theological controversies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and it maintains an important position within Protestant thought. What became known as “Arminian” theology was held by people across a swath of geographical and ecclesial positions; it developed in European, British, and American contexts, and it engaged with a wide range of intellectual challenges. While standing together in their common rejection of several key planks of Reformed theology, proponents of Arminianism took various positions on other matters. Some were broadly committed to catholic and creedal theology; others were more open to theological revision. Some were concerned primarily with practical concerns; others were engaged in system building as they sought to articulate and defend an overarching vision of God and the world. The story of this development is both complex and important for a proper understanding of the history of Protestant theology. However, this historical development of Arminian theology is not well known. In this book, Thomas H. McCall and Keith D. Stanglin offer a historical introduction to Arminian theology as it developed in modern thought, providing an account that is based upon important primary sources and recent secondary research that will be helpful to scholars of ecclesial history and modern thought as well as comprehensible and relevant for students.

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