The purpose of this study is to examine Asian American college students’ perception suicide and culture-bound risk factors associated with suicidal behaviors. By analyzing five focus groups 28 students, identifies their dual perspectives on a range such as loneliness sticking out feelings, parent’s higher academic pressure, inter-generational acculturation disparity burden for living up model m...

Background In health professions, ethics is considered a fundamental competence. The increase in clinical autonomy the field of physiotherapy associated with an ethical situations their practice. Objective To explore relationship between physiotherapists and patients, training received by physiotherapists, if context, identify necessary attitudes apply recommendations profession for they experi...

Qualitative Reasoning captures human common sense understanding of the behavior of real world physical systems. Qualitative models use a rich explicit conceptual vocabulary and therefore a qualitative simulation provides an explanation as well as a description of the system’s behavior. These properties make Qualitative Reasoning suitable for use in several application fields like education and ...

A Qualitative System Identification Method A method which can qualitatively identify a dynamical system according to qualitative descriptions about the behavior of the observed system is proposed . The system identification problem is well known especially in control theory . It involves the identification of the causal structure of systems according to observed behabvior . We introduce a Quali...

based on mathematical equations, are hampered by the qualitative nature of ecological knowledge. In this article, we demonstrate that qualitative reasoning provides alternative and productive ways for ecologists to develop, organize, and implement models. We present a qualitative theory of population dynamics and use this theory to capture and simulate commonsense theories about population and ...

This research presents a dual-perspective, or bipartite view of teleology (i.e . purpose) and uses it to criticize qualitative models of cardiovascular systems in a manner that highlights the relationships between circulatory topology, behavior and function . The Bipartite Teleology Model (BTM) attributes 'purposefulness' to both steady-state and regulatory behavior thereby providing a split-le...

In order to deal with unexpected or illegal behavior of multi-agent systems, we have to reorganize the system's behavior by rede ning or re-planning each agent's behavior. In that case, the underlying mathematical model connecting the target system's behavior and each agent's behavior is indispensable. In this paper, we present a method for generating causal relations among the parameters which...

Incomplete knowledge of the structure of mechanisms is an important fact of life in reasoning, commonsense or expert, about the physical world. Qualitative simulation captures an important kind of incomplete, ordinal, knowledge, and predicts the set of qualitatively possible behaviors of a mechanism, given a qualitative description of its structure and initial state . However, one frequently ha...

ualitative survey methods are being used increasingly in research and policy studies to understand traveler perceptions, attitudes and behavior, as a complement to moreestablished quantitative surveys of public perceptions, attitudes and behavior. The aim of this paper and workshop is to review the use and potential use of qualitative research techniques in transport (particularly in relation t...

Incomplete knowledge of the structure of mechanisms is an important fact of life in reasoning, commonsense or expert, about the physical world. Qualitative simulation captures an important kind of incomplete, ordinal, knowledge, and predicts the set of qualitatively possible behaviors of a mechanism, given a qualitative description of its structure and initial state. However, one frequently has...