Workshop: Theory Development Within the Information Sciences

The Impact of the Faculty Development Workshop on Educational Research Abilities of Faculties in Mashhad University of Medical Sciences

Background: Faculty development programs have received considerable investment of resources from medical institutions, though the effect and output of them has been infrequently studied. This study was design to measure the effect of the Mashhad University of Medical Sciences’ faculty development workshops. Methods: Three faculty development workshops on educational research were conducted to i...

Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences

Possibilistic Systems Within a General Information Theory

We survey possibilistic systems theory and place it in the context of Imprecise Probabilities and General Information Theory (git). In particular , we argue that possibilistic systems hold a distinct position within a broadly conceived, synthetic git. Our focus is on systems and applications which are semantically grounded by empirical measurement methods (statistical counting), rather than epi...

How to Work Collaboratively Within the Health System: Workshop Summary and Facilitator Reflection

Effectiveness in health services research requires development of specific knowledge and skills for working in partnership with health system decision-makers. In an initial effort to frame capacity-building activities for researchers, we designed a workshop on working collaboratively within the health system. The workshop, based on recent research exploring health syste...

Minimal Randomness and Information Theory - Information Theory and Statistics, 1994. Proceedings., 1994 IEEE-IMS Workshop on

This is a tutorial survey of recent information theoretic results dealing with the minimal randomness necessary for the generation of random processes with prescribed distributions.