Hemodynamic monitoring and management has greatly improved during the past decade. Technologies have evolved from very invasive to non-invasive, and the philosophy has shifted from a static approach to a functional approach. However, despite these major changes, the critical care community still has potential to improve its ability to adopt the most modern standards of research methodology in o...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the problems of methodologicalresearch program in the history of political thought appearing valuationmethodologies. the claim is that the principles and methodology of the researchprogram evaluate the formation, expansion, and development of methodologies inthe area of knowledge. in contrast, this article argues that the research program isnot suffi...

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....

A methodology is proposed to jointly model treatments with quantitative levels measured throughout time by combining the response surface and growth curve techniques. The model parameters, which measure the effect throughout time of the factors related to the second-order response surface model, are estimated. These estimates are made through a suitable transformation that allows to express the...

SELF LEARNING STRATEGIES FOR EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN ANDRESPONSE SURFACE OPTIMIZATIONby

In this article we seek to understand and clarify the contribution of the multifaceted concept of sociality towards the design of social software systems. Our premise is that it is not software as such that is social, but the free choice of people to engage in social activities. Paraphrasing Wenger (1998): sociality cannot be designed; it can only be designed for. We adopt a soft systems approa...

the methodology and strategies of research in social sciences are of great importance and momentum. although very little attention has been paid, in the early scientific literature, to logic and methodology about generating knowledge, certain early muslim scholars such as farabi and ibn-e khaldun have made valuable conscious efforts in methodology, research techniques and scientific standards t...