Are individual differences quantitative or qualitative? An integrated behavioral and fMRI MIMIC approach

Individual Differences in Delay Discounting: Differences are Quantitative with Gains, but Qualitative with Losses

Research on delay discounting and inter-temporal choice has yielded significant insights into decision making. Although research has focused on delayed gains, the discounting of losses is potentially important in precisely those areas where the discounting of gains has proved informative (e.g., substance use and abuse). Participants in the current study completed both a questionnaire consisting...

Quantitative differences, qualitative outcomes

Fruit fly neuroblasts can either self-renew, rest or take on a specialized form, depending on the levels of a protein called Prospero.

Perceptions of climate change and its impact on human health: an integrated quantitative and qualitative approach

Background The World Health Organization emphasized that climate change is a significant and emerging threat to public health, especially in lower income populations and tropical/subtropical countries. However, people in Asia and Africa were the least likely to perceive global warming as a threat. In Vietnam, little research has been conducted concerning the perceptions of effects of climate ch...

Individual differences in synaesthesia : qualitative and fMRI investigations on the impact of synaesthetic phenomenology

An Integrated Quantitative-qualitative Approach to Automated Modeling of Visco-elastic Materials from Experimental Data

Automated modeling plays a key role in the realization of intelligent computational tools capable to emulate the human expert’s reasoning in problem-solving activity aimed at performing tasks in engineering domains. This paper illustrates, through a case study in the domain of visco-elastic materials, how a suitable integration of qualitative, mathematical, statistical, numerical techniques may...