While the concept of mixed-methods research is more usually associated with combining quantitative and qualitative approaches, this paper outlines a study that mixed methods by undertaking qualitative theory testing and derivation when examining the relationship between health promotion theory and hospital nursing practice. Thus, it is concerned with relating the metatheoretical aspects of the ...

Education assessment is one of important measures that will be to ensure and continuously improve the educational level and educational quality. A fractional order model method for education evaluation is proposed in this paper. Improved fractional Basset force model is referred to constitute the complex education evaluation model. The detailed descriptions are displayed through building block ...

With the rapid expansion of information resources, the amount of image data in the network shows an explosive growth trend. The traditional search engines have not considered users’ different interests; therefore image retrieval efficiency is reduced. To solve the problem, this paper puts forward a research on user-based personalized image retrieval technologies. Firstly, this paper studies the...

The Focus Group (FG) has been actually employed by marketing, and is becoming importanct also in other areas; such as, education, health, management, decision-making, and information systems, among others. Depending on the research objective, the Focus Group can be used alone or in conjunction with other methods. The results obtained from the FG application are particularly effective in supplyi...

Executive Summary The Delphi method is an attractive method for graduate students completing masters and PhD level research. It is a flexible research technique that has been successfully used in our program at the University of Calgary to explore new concepts within and outside of the information systems body of knowledge. The Delphi method is an iterative process to collect and distill the an...

Scientific publications contain many references to method terminologies used during scientific experiments. New terms are constantly created within the research community, especially in the biomedical domain where thousands of papers are published each week. In this study we report our attempt to automatically extract such method terminologies from scientific research papers, using rule-based a...

This article by Arja Holopainen, Tuovi Hakulinen-Viitanen and Kerttu Tossavainen explains the five stages of the systematic review process and describes how this method was applied to an analysis of studies dealing with nurse 'teacherhood'. The authors argue that systematic review is an excellent method for summarising research knowledge and for highlighting evidence significant for nursing, nu...

The influence factors of reliability for drivers in different running stage are analyzed in the paper, firstly, based on Behavior-causing Theory. Then a new quantification method on transience reliability for drivers is advanced by a new definition “reliability degree”, whose error rate is calculated by the response time of drivers, and the influence factors how to influent the transience relia...

We got interested in the hypercircle method since it enables the derivation of reliable a posteriori error estimates without generic constants. It turned out, however, that it avoids also a loss of efficiency that we encounter when residual error estimators are used with the hp finite element method. Moreover, we obtain a priori error estimates for the comparison of different finite element fam...