The primary question regarding prescriptive appropriateness is a difficult one to answer for the qualitative researcher. While there are certainly qualitative researchers who have offered prescriptive protocols to better define and describe the terrain of qualitative research design and there are qualitative researchers who offer research conclusions that might be considered prescriptive by the...

[The law of prescription — prescriptive easements in particular — has played a vital role in English and Australian land law. Prescriptive easements were easily accommodated into a land law system based on possessory, relative and defeasible titles. However, the advent of title by registration in both countries has raised the issue of whether prescriptive easements have any future value or util...

in the macro education plan for iran (2010-2025), twelve years of schooling has been characterized as “general” education. such a characterization is prone to certain misconceptions. general education does not equal “uniform,” or standardized, education and should refrain from identifying as such. yet it is misinterpreted that there is a relationship between offering a general type of education...

We describe the use of synthetic information for doing prescriptive and predictive analytics. We discuss in detail how synthetic information is created by combining data from multiple sources, and then describe its role in an an ongoing disaster resilience study where we simulate the aftermath of a hypothetical nuclear detonation in Washington DC.