decision making about outsourcing or insourcing of manufacturing activities is a type of multiple criteria decision making (mcdm) problem, which requires considering quantitative and qualitative factors as evaluation criteria simultaneously. therefore, a suitable mcdm method can be useful in this area as it can consider the interactions among quantitative and qualitative criteria. the analytic ...

Commonsense sometimes predicts events to be likely or unlikely rather than merely possible. We extend methods of qualitative reasoning to predict the relative likelihoods of possible qualitative behaviors by viewing the dynamics of a system as a Markov chain over its transition graph. This involves adding qualitative or quantitative estimates of transition probabilities to each of the transitio...

flower morphology of ten fritillaria species of subgenera theresia and fritillaria growing wild in iran is studied using seventy morphological characters. qualitative and quantitative datasets separated taxa into subgenera, sectional and groups. three enigmatic species f. caucasica, f. zagrica (endemic to zagros mountains) and f. pinardii (recently reported from zagros mountains) appeared as cl...

work engagement literature has been dominated by quantitative research methods. this article aims to study work engagement antecedents using mixed-method sequential explanatory design. this design starts with the collection and analysis of quantitative data followed by the subsequent collection and analysis of qualitative data. the qualitative phase of the study was designed to incorporate the ...

the main purpose of this study was to identify factors affecting the validity of the results of the student evaluation. the research method was mixed method. participants of the qualitative part were masters of educational science and participants of the quantitative part were bsc students of psychology and educational sciences of state universities of tehran entered in 1389 and 1390. in the qu...

BACKGROUND Quantitative studies are becoming more recognized as important to understanding health care with all of its richness and complexities. The purpose of this descriptive survey was to provide a quantitative evaluation of the qualitative studies published in 170 core clinical journals for 2000. METHODS All identified studies that used qualitative methods were reviewed to ascertain whic...

methodologies operate broadly within qualitative and/or quantitative paradigms. The simplest distinction between these two is that quantitative research methods involve enumeration, whereas qualitative research methods employ qualitative (non-numerical) judgements in exploration of the phenomena being studied. Behind this simple distinction lie deep philosophical differences. Quantitative resea...