BACKGROUND Growing numbers of medical trainees now participate in global health experiences (GHEs) during their training. To enhance these experiences we sought to explore expectations inherent in the relationships between GHE stakeholder groups. METHODS 20 open-ended, semi-structured interviews probed participant perceptions and assumptions embedded in GHEs. A fundamental qualitative descrip...

Our approach describes any digital image qualitatively by detecting regions/objects inside it and describing their visual characteristics (shape and colour) and their spatial characteristics (orientation and topology) by means of qualitative models. The description obtained is translated into a description logic (DL) based ontology, which gives a formal and explicit meaning to the qualitative t...

This work introdurrs an approach to build a quatitative description of scemes dong a roate, which is used in routc recognition by a mobile robot. The description consists of a series of Landmarks eutonomowly selected by the robot from a Panurantic View. which has been generated as a visual memory of scenes along routes. The h i e idea lo bridge the quantitative panoramic view to qualitative lan...

In this paper we propose a methodology to derive a qualitative description of the behavior of a system from an incompletely known nonlinear dynamical model. The model is written as an algebraic structure with unknown parameters and/or functions. Under some hypotheses, we obtain a graph describing the possible transitions between regions, defined by the trends of the state variables and their re...

Dental implant education has increasingly become an integral part of predoctoral dental curricula. However, the majority of implant education emphasizes the restorative aspect as opposed to the surgical. The University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry has developed an Advanced Predoctoral Implant Program (APIP) that provides a select group of students the opportunity to place implant...

This paper presents a tool developed to obtain qualitative trend representations from signals, Qualtras. The aim of such a type of description is to offer an understandable representation of process behavior based on the concept of qualitative episode. The tool is intended to be used as a numeric to qualitative interface for supervisory applications. The applicability of this tool is demonstrat...

This paper presents a method for reasoning about spatial objects and their qualitative spatial relationships. In contrast to existing work, which mainly focusses on reasoning about qualitative spatial relations alone, we integrate quantitative and qualitative information with terminological reasoning. For spatioterminological reasoning we present the description logic ALCRP(D) and define an app...

The problem of recognizing classes of objects as opposed to special instances requires methods of comparing images that capture the variation within the class while they discriminate against objects outside the class. We present a simple method for image description based on histograms of qualitative shape indexes computed from the combination of triplets of sampled locations and gradient direc...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to explore the positive aspects experienced by adult children in providing care to their parent who has either Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease. DESIGN A qualitative descriptive approach was used to analyze audiotaped in-depth semistructured interviews that were conducted with 34 adult children who were primary caregivers as part of a larger...