UNLABELLED A new form of literature review has emerged, Mixed Studies Review (MSR). These reviews include qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods studies. In the present paper, we examine MSRs in health sciences, and provide guidance on processes that should be included and reported. However, there are no valid and usable criteria for concomitantly appraising the methodological quality of t...

The growing complexity, sophistication, and bulk of engineering knowledge has lead to situations where incorrect or sub-optimal decisions are made because the appropriate knowledge cannot be accessed and brought to bear in a timely fashion. Just as the number-crunching power of computers several decades ago made possible the routine application of analysis methods too time consuming to use by h...

Based on previous work, we present our position statement encompassing two mutually complementary topics. The first topic pertains to the ontological grounding of quantitatively specified synthetic environment data. Here, the objective is to generate a qualitative spatial description of a quantitatively modelled (e.g., using primitive geometric features) synthetic environment. The basic aim her...

In this paper a self-learning classification method, able to deal with both qualitative and quantitative data, will be presented. This technique presents important advantages with respect to classical approaches, both numerical and symbolical ones : it is faster, less memory demanding, performs a sequential treatment and can carry out both supervised (non-iterative) and unsupervised learning . ...

Incomplete knowledge of the structure of mechanisms is an important fact of life in reasoning, commonsense or expert, about the physical world. Qualitative simulation captures an important kind of incomplete, ordinal, knowledge, and predicts the set of qualitatively possible behaviors of a mechanism, given a qualitative description of its structure and initial state . However, one frequently ha...

18] P. M. Frank. Fault diagnosis in dynamic systems using analytical and knowledge-based redundancy { a survey and some new results. detection in an experimental heat exchanger process: a multiple model approach. Knowledge-based diagnosis systems for continuous process operations based upon the task framework. 26 models to the data in a Qmimic-style system is currently being studied 33]. A comp...

this research project was carried out to evaluate the ph.d.theses in agricultural and natural resources branches in the universities of the country in the years of 2011 and 2012. totally 257 theses were evaluated. in this study, six scientific and applied indices were evaluated. one hundred points were given to each thesis; 70 points for scientific and 30 points for applied aspects of the thesi...

BACKGROUND School gardening programmes are increasingly popular, with suggested benefits including healthier eating and increased physical activity. Our objectives were to understand the health and well-being impacts of school gardens and the factors that help or hinder their success. METHODS We conducted a systematic review of quantitative and qualitative evidence (PROSPERO CRD42014007181). ...