Mixed methods research has become increasingly popular in health systems. Qualitative approaches are often used to explain quantitative results and help to develop interventions or survey instruments. Mixed methods research is especially important in low- and middle-income country (LMIC) settings, where understanding social, economic and cultural contexts are essential to assess health systems ...

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Today's children have more opportunities than ever before to learn from interactive technology, yet experimental research assessing the efficacy of children's learning from interactive media in comparison to traditional learning approaches is still quite scarce. Moreover, little work has examined the efficacy of using touch-screen devices for research purposes. The current study compared childr...

Assignments of Construction Management (CM) graduate programmes often require students to carry out research on real-world problems. To prepare students for this task, many CM-programmes contain a research methodology course. However, after taking part in these courses, many students still lack the ability to define the scope of their research problem and to find an appropriate research design....

A. Sivalingam, N. M. Hariharan, T. Kannadasan, M. Thirumarimurugan, and S. Gopalakrishnan Department of Chemical Engineering, Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore – 641 014, Department of Chemical Engineering, Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore – 641 014 Chemical Engineering, Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore – 641 014 and Anna University of Technology, Coimba...

Previous papers in this series on evidence-based dentistry have discussed the first 2 steps in seeking answers to clinical problems formulating a clear question and strategically searching for evidence. The next step, critical appraisal of the evidence, is made easier if one understands the basic concepts of clinical research design. The strongest design, especially for questions related to t...

Soft Systems Methodology is often criticised as lacking rigorous tools. In this paper, an outline of Soft Systems Methodology and Petri Nets is given. Petri Nets are then explored as a formal tool for the description and amalgamation of weltanschauung alternatives at the conceptual modelling stage.

We hypothesize that the variance in volume of high-velocity queries over time can be explained by observing that these queries are formulated in response to events in the world that users are interested in. Based on it, this paper describes a system, ZED, which automatically finds explanations for high velocity queries, by extracting descriptions of relevant and temporally-proximate events from...

The authors compared personality correlates of creative achievement and wise performance in middle-age women of a longitudinal study. In Q-sort descriptions, originality and ambition were particularly salient in creative individuals, whereas meaningmaking and benevolence were salient in wise individuals. Inventory measures of openness, unconventionality, ambition, and autonomy at age 21 predict...