This paper discusses the research methodology used in a study of requirements negotiations in geographically distributed settings. The methodology was based on a multidisciplinary paradigm that considered research methods and models from requirements engineering, soft system methodologies, group research and negotiation literature, and computer supported cooperative work. An integral part of th...

Author article stakes part in several projects focused just on development of technical creativity and imagination in students of faculties of education, teachers and primary school pupils. The article deals with the teacher’s approach to the teaching of psychomotor skills, while specifically seeking to answer whether among teachers of technical education and practical activities, there are gro...

The uncanny valley effect (UVE) is a negative emotional response experienced when encountering entities that appear almost human. Research on the UVE typically investigates individual, or collections of, near human entities but may be prone to methodological circularity unless the properties that give rise to the emotional response are appropriately defined and quantified. In addition, many stu...

the present study aims to examine how to create alternative methodology in social sciences by using qualitative approach of grounded theory and implementing focus group workshops and performing semi-structured interviews with expert professors in social science methodology. the method of the present research is qualitative approach of grounded theory; focus group workshops were held and semi-st...

The purpose of this article is to share lessons learned from implementing community-based participatory research (CBPR) in Indian Country that may be generalizable to other medically underserved communities. CBPR is currently included in multiple grant announcements by the National Institute of Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but information about this methodology vs trad...

Organizational researchers and practitioners have been interested in organizational change for some time. Historically, they have directed most of their efforts at improving the efficiency of planned top-down change. These efforts were strategic attempts at altering parameters leading to transformational change. Most efforts failed to meet their intended purposes. Transformational organizat...

This article presents a description of secondary data analysis and suggests that this type of research methodology may be helpful in facilitating research by the clinical nurse specialist (CNS). The article discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the use of this method specifically in relation to the CNS and offers suggestions for sources of data.

in this paper, we introduce a methodology for safety stock placement in supply chain. the problem has two objectives: minimization of good's delivery time and inventory cost. because the problem belongs to np-hard category, we develop a proper simulated annealing algorithm (sa) for solve the proposed methodology in large scaled problem. for verify the performance and efficiency of the meth...

These are curious points. Rather than simply “widely held and false beliefs,” a myth, and more specifically, a political myth, can be understood as “an ideologically marked narrative which purports to give a true account of...political events and which is accepted as valid in its essentials by a social group.”2 Our use of the term “myth” was in this sense, an understanding that Ferraz seems to ...

Mixed research synthesis is the latest addition to the repertoires of mixed methods research and systematic review. Mixed research synthesis requires that the problems generated by the methodological diversity within and between qualitative and quantitative studies be resolved. Three basic research designs accommodate this diversity, including the segregated, integrated, and contingent designs....