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In recent years, multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA) has emerged as a likely alternative to address shortcomings in health technology assessment (HTA) by offering a more holistic perspective to value assessment and acting as an alternative priority setting tool. In this paper, we argue that MCDA needs to subscribe to robust methodological processes related to the selection of objectives,...

Distributed cognition is a theoretical and methodological framework that considers social groups, their artifacts, and their contexts as a single cognitive entity working towards the solution of a shared problem. In this paper we briefly describe the framework and consider its strengths and weaknesses as a theoretical foundation for software engineering research. We propose a series of techniqu...

A growing body of literature is focused on subsistence markets and how marketing interventions can increase well-being for those whose daily existence a struggle to ensure access necessities life. To understand the lifeworld living at level, interviews are favored as data collection tool. This methodological paper examines interviewing in context with focus women lived experiences affected by i...

Comparative personality research in human and nonhuman species advances many areas of empirical and theoretical research. The methodological foundations underlying these attempts to explain personality, however, remain an unpopular and often ignored topic. The target paper and this rejoinder explore three methodological core issues in the philosophy of science for comparative personality resear...

In this paper the relations among qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods approaches are considered. Basic evidence for methodological analysis is consisted by Vladan Vidicki`s Snezana Stojsin`s article Zivan Ristic`s book devoted to topic. Vidicki Stojsin critics of dogmatism related rival approach. Their comprehension analyzed in first second sections paper. Third section deals with criti...

This article explores how leading theories from a key area of epistemology, the philosophical study knowledge and belief, can support best practice in intelligence analysis. The specifically examines three for establishing justification beliefs: evidentialism, process reliabilism, indefeasibilism, could be utilized practical use consideration these Justified True Belief (JTB) an context offers ...