background: the population of elderly in iran and in the world is increasing. it is predicted that the population of elderly reaches to 10 millions in iran by the year 2019. elderly more than other age groups are at risk of chronic diseases and health problems; and it affects their self-management and makes them feel disabled. since the knowledge of self-management for iranian elderly is not we...

Despite the importance of the business model in implementing strategy, this issue is less addressed than strategy. This important issue regarding banks' business model has received less attention, and research in Iran and other countries has caused a deprivation of knowledge. In addition to the scientific pathology of the business model in Iranian commercial banks, the present article seeks to ...

work engagement literature has been dominated by quantitative research methods. this article aims to study work engagement antecedents using mixed-method sequential explanatory design. this design starts with the collection and analysis of quantitative data followed by the subsequent collection and analysis of qualitative data. the qualitative phase of the study was designed to incorporate the ...

BACKGROUND There have been over 430 publications using the RE-AIM model for planning and evaluation of health programs and policies, as well as numerous applications of the model in grant proposals and national programs. Full use of the model includes use of qualitative methods to understand why and how results were obtained on different RE-AIM dimensions, however, recent reviews have revealed ...

a two-variable integrate and fire model is presented to study the role of transient outward potassium currents in producing temporal aspects of dorsal cochlear nucleus (dcn) pyramidal cells with different profiles namely the chopper, the pauser and the buildup. this conductance based model is a reduced version of km-lif model (meng & rinzel, 2010) which captures qualitative firing features of a...

In control engineering, diagnosis and process supervision are important tasks where qualitative models can be applied. In this paper, the problem of observing the internal states of a dynamical system is solved by means of a qualitative model that has the form of a nondeterministic automaton. In the qualitative observation problem, the current qualitative state of a system has to be inferred fr...

this qualitative study was conducted to identify the factors and barriers of entrepreneurship development from the perspective of iranian entrepreneurs. in terms of purpose, this study is applied- developmental and it is performed via descriptive phenomenological method. qualitative content analysis was used to collect the data. the study population comprised of recorded interviews with the ent...

Qualitative analysis has a long tradition in economic modeling . The application of mathematical methods, either quantitative or qualitative, to analyse an economic model stipulates strong assumptions. These assumptions restrict the analysis on a special case of the more general, verbally stated model. Furthermore the application of these methods is successful in analysing small models only . I...

Quantitative methods for reasoning under uncertainty have become well established, and many alternative formalisms have been suggested. In recent years there has been a growing interest in qualitative methods as helpful in situtations in which the use of precise numerical methods is not appropriate. In this paper we demonstrate another use for qualitative models. The qualitative analysis of a q...