Whereas a results statement identifies what we hope to accomplish, indicators tell us specifically what to measure to determine whether the objective has been achieved. Indicators are usually quantitative measures but may also be qualitative observations. They define how performance will be measured along a scale or dimension, without specifying a particular level of achievement. (Planned level...

Qualitative inquiries normally take pains to make clear that they are not generalizable" (Kilbourn, 2006, p. 534). I disagree that this is or should be the norm for qualitative research in education. In this article, I discuss the kinds of generalization that come from qualitative inquiry. I argue that there are several well-established means of in which warranted generalizations can be produce...

In the Dimension Embedded in Unified Symmetry (D.E.U.S.; [1]) we made a qualitative description of the way in which we can construct the Large Scale Structure of the Universe from the knot-particle equivalence. Even that we are limited by the lack of computational power implemented on a nonlinear computational architecture needed to conduct this study to its finish, we are still able to give th...

This article describes research in progress of a design approach for crisis management information systems. A qualitative study was designed to gather data from four municipalities in northern Sweden, which all have responsibility for crisis management in each local environment. The purpose with the article is to discuss broad but strongly related information issues to crisis management and fro...

Adding fundamental matter of mass mQ to N = 4 Yang Mills theory, we study quarkonium, and “generalized quarkonium” containing light adjoint particles. At large ’t Hooft coupling the states of spin ≤ 1 are anomalously light (Kruczenski et al., hep-th/0304032). We examine their form factors, and show these hadrons are unlike any known in QCD. By a traditional yardstick they appear infinite in siz...

in this work, sio2 –zro2 mixed oxides was prepared by the polymeric sol–gel route. the characterization of pore structure, which determines the permeation process of membrane, is of great importance. so far, most investigations have focused on such pore structure as specific surface area and pore size distribution, but the surface fractal, the important parameter reflecting the roughness of por...

The United States of America is a country with long tradition migration in which second- and third-generation Americans have been assimilated into cultural ‘melting pot.’ This multicultural reality highlights the many varied elements superdiversity that make up complex characteristics contemporary society this country. In present study, authors seek to identify some these by viewing them qualit...