A New Qualitative Methods Section

New Methods in Qualitative Calculus

A qualitative calculus based on signs was first developed by economists to overcome one major difficulty: we often face a lack of quantitative data. A number of methods such as comparative statics were proposed to solve qualitative-model-based problems. A new interest has recently arisen in qualitative methods as applied to process control, control theory, and artificial intelligence (the autho...

Qualitative methods: the new orthodoxy?

It is an interesting moment to write Progress in Human Geography’s first report on qualitative methods. In one sense, it suggests these methods have, at long last, arrived and been accepted as established approaches. That this is an overdue recognition needs little emphasizing when surveying the number of articles drawing upon, at least in part, qualitative material. However, a less encouraging...

New Methods Section in PLOS Computational Biology

1 Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2 Basic Science Program, SAIC-Frederick, Inc., Center for Cancer Research Nanobiology Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America, 3 Sackler Institute of Molecular Medicine, Department of Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Sackler School of M...

I. Expanded Methods Section

Microsystems Introducing a new section

A fundamental change is coming about in the nature of the computing industry. The real motivations for the change are the LSI microcomputer and inexpensive memory; the effects are far reaching and occasionally mind boggling. In response to this change, Computer is inaugurating a new section Microsystems. Starting out with the notion of a section devoted to personal and hobby computing, we rapid...