as narrative discourses and discursive thematic frame- works on social issues in media can provide us with an insight into how different understandings and perspectives serve to construct dif- ferent presentations of social actors, social events as well as social re- lations and conflicts, it seems necessary to take them into more seri- ous considerations. to this end, the present study was an ...

Methods A case study methodology was used to explore IPCP adoption. Data sources and analysis included: 1) Chronological and thematic analysis of IPCP documentation and assessments performed by local staff and external agencies/consultants, and 2) semi-structured interviews with local key informants and external agencies (using snow-ball sampling) with thematic analysis. Analysis was informed b...

GlobeLand30 is the world’s first global land cover dataset at 30 m resolution for two epochs, i.e., 2000 and 2010. On the official website, the data are represented by qualitative thematic maps which show the distribution of global land cover, and some proportional symbol maps which are quantitative representations of land cover data. However, researchers have also argued that the cartogram, a ...

The main goal of this study is to understand and analyse the perspective of dockworkers on health and labour at the Railway Dry Port of the Municipality of Uruguaiana in the State of Rio Grande do Sul (RS), Brazil. Sixteen dockworkers participated in the study under the methodological approach of qualitative research. The fieldwork was conducted through individual interviews by applying a semi-...

This Thematic Series, “Nanostructures for sensors, electronics, energy and environment II”, is a continuation of the series released three years ago and again presents articles in this highly dynamic field. The fields of nanoscale science and technology are rapidly emerging, with a focus on the design, fabrication, and characterization of functional objects. The existing energy crisis could be ...

This paper critically reviews of the use of thematic analysis (TA) in qualitative research by describingits procedures and processes andby comparing grounded theory (GTA) with hermeneutic analysis.The literature that relates to thematic analysis (TA) shows that there is a lackof descriptions issues exist due respect to the concepts, process, validations and clarifications that been used by rese...