Suggested classes relevant to behavioural sciences

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A BRUK-funded project developed definition for research relevant to behavioural sciences. The classes below are suggested as additions

Term	Ontological Definition	Source Ontology
Behavioural theory	Theory: A representation about a set of entities, and relationships between those entities, including principles that organise and explain patterns of observations or phenomena.	Needs to be created. Parent class in BCIO: Representation, https://bciosearch.org/MF_0000030, “A dependent continuant which is about a portion of reality.”
	Behavioural Theory: A theory that is about behaviour.	Needs to be created. Parent class Theory (row above).
Behavioural research	Behavioural Research: A planned process performed systematically to investigate and generate knowledge about behavioural phenomena.	Needs to be created. Parent class in BCIO: Planned Process, https://bciosearch.org/OBI_0000011, “A process that realizes a plan which is the concretization of a plan specification.”
Behavioural science	Scientific activity: a planned process that aims to generate and improve the accuracy of generalisable propositions about the world through the collection of data, formulation and improvement of models and theories.	Needs to be created. Parent class in BCIO: Planned Process, https://bciosearch.org/OBI_0000011, “A process that realizes a plan which is the concretization of a plan specification.”
	Scientific activity about behavioural phenomena.	Needs to be created. Parent class Scientific activity (row above).