this study provides a framework and definition to the notion of talent management process and describes how it fits the human resources architecture of agricultural higher education system in iran. this qualitative study was conducted using semi-structured interviews for data collection and systematic grounded theory methods for data analysis. for this study, we selected and interviewed 15 expe...

System identi cation takes a space of possible models and a stream of observational data of a physical system, and attempts to identify the element of the model space that best describes the observed system. In traditional approaches, the model space is speci ed by a parameterized di erential equation, and identi cation selects numerical parameter values so that simulation of the model best mat...

RESEARCH QUESTION What was the experience of preceptorship like for newly qualified registered nurses in a healthcare trust? METHOD A qualitative approach was used with data collected using semi-structured one-to-one interviews with eight participants who had recently completed their preceptorship period. The data was analysed using Newell and Burnard's (2011) Pragmatic Approach to Qualitativ...

AIM To explore women's experiences of living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) at home. DESIGN An explorative and descriptive qualitative design. METHODS A consecutive sample of nine women with COPD living at home. Data were collected in 2014 using semi-structured interviews and analysed using a qualitative content analysis. RESULTS Three main themes were identified: havin...

Part of artificial-intelligence research is highly concerned with the efficient manipulation of environmental databases. Nowadays there exist several knowledge-based systems, with specialized problem-solving expertise in a large number of areas. And, in order to function, they usually need a learning module for preliminary knowledge extraction,characterization of the particular subject area, ob...

Semi-qualitative probabilistic networks (SQPNs) merge two important graphical model formalisms: Bayesian networks and qualitative probabilistic networks. They provide a very general modeling framework by allowing the combination of numeric and qualitative assessments over a discrete domain, and can be compactly encoded by exploiting the same factorization of joint probability distributions that...

BACKGROUND Anorexia nervosa (AN) is usually marked by difficult recovery. OBJECTIVE To elicit, describe and characterize factors involved in successful AN remission for at least five years and post-recovery life. METHODS A qualitative study design using semi-structured interviews according to grounded theory methodology was used. An intentional sample of 15 information rich AN patients was ...

A qualitative research design using the interviews of five homeless street females was undertaken to understand the meaning of the lived experiences of the homeless street females and their identified need for community based programs. This research design provided the researchers with the opportunity to understand the complexities of homelessness from the homeless street females in Ethiopia us...