the purpose of this descriptive-correlation study was to investigate effective factors on rural people participation in watershed management projects in dorod faraman & lalabad basin, kermanshah province. both qualitative and quantitative paradigms were considered in the study. the target population in quantitative section consisted all rural peoples in the dorod faraman & lalabad basin village...

OBJECTIVES Health economic models are developed as part of the health technology assessment process to determine whether health interventions represent good value for money. These models are often used to directly inform healthcare decision making and policy. The information needs for the model require the use of other types of information beyond clinical effectiveness evidence to populate the ...

précis: this debate article highlights some questions from critics of qualitative research. planning for proper design, philosophical background, researcher as a research instrument in the study, trustworthiness and application of findings are main debates in this field. one of the issues that have been received little attention is report of qualitative inquiry. a qualified report can answer th...

Politics play a central part in determining health and development outcomes as Gorik Ooms highlights in his recent commentary. As health becomes more global and more politicized the need grows to better understand the inherently political processes at all levels of governance, such as ideological positions, ideas, value judgments, and power. I agree that global health research should strengthen...

Human qualitative judgments are often characterized by uncertainty and predictability. Decision-makers tend to be more confident in making linguistic decisions than crisp value judgments. MEREC is capable of achieving relative objective weights several conflicting criteria. This paper contains two parts, first, the extension method fuzzy circumstances based on terms which a parabolic measure ha...

A within-subjects group experimental design was used to test whether three manipulated characteristics of multiple baseline across participants (MBL-P) data showing at least a month delayed change in slope affected experts’ inference of a functional relation and agreement on this judgment. Thirty-six experts completed a survey composed of 16 MBL-P graphs. Graphs with steep slopes, once change b...

Statistical fault prediction models and expert estimations are two popular methods for deciding where to focus the fault detection efforts when the fault detection budget is limited. In this paper, we present a study in which we empirically compare the accuracy of fault prediction offered by statistical prediction models with the accuracy of expert estimations. The study is performed in an indu...

Physicians and nurses express their judgments and observations towards a patient’s health status in clinical narratives. Thus, their judgments are explicitly or implicitly included in patient records. To get impressions on the current health situation of a patient or on changes in the status, analysis and retrieval of this subjective content is crucial. In this paper, we approach this question ...

There are a variety of reasons someone might engage in risky behaviors, such as perceived invulnerability to harm or a belief that negative outcomes are more likely for others than for oneself. However, these risk-taking biases are often measured at a decision-making level or from the developmental perspective. Here we assessed whether or not risk-taking influenced perceptual judgments associat...