Qualitative interviews are widely and often uncritically adopted for health care research, with little justification of therapeutic value. Although they might provide valuable insights into the perspectives of participants, they represent only a version of reality, rather than "truth" per se. Qualitative research is vulnerable to bias through the attitudes and qualities of the researcher, socia...

Mixed methods, defined as one complete method (as the core project) plus a different simultaneous and sequential supplemental strategy, have been well explicated for combining the most difficult designs—that is, qualitative and quantitative methods. However, experts in qualitative inquiry have relatively ignored the issues that occur while describing qualitative simultaneous and sequential desi...

Introduction: This research aimed to design and validate the education model of philosophy of life for students of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences from the point of view of professors. Method: This qualitative research was performed on eight university professors selected through the purposeful sampling method. In the qualitative section, a semi-structured interview tool was used to coll...

Purpose: Considering the importance of human resources in electronic government and emphasis on administrative health, the aim of this study was to designing the pattern of human resources development of electronic government with an administrative health approach. Methodology: The present study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was mixed (qualitative and qu...

the study focuses on identifying the university incubators existing infrastructure and their role in the university spin-offs establishment. the study adopts an integrated approach as its methodology. the statistical population includes all universities and colleges managers, experts in universities’ incubators in mazandaran province. to perform the sampling, the purposive sampling and stratifi...

Mixed methods research is the integration of quantitative and qualitative components in a research project. Whether you are reading or designing a mixed methods research project, it is important to be familiar with both qualitative and quantitative research methods and the specific purposes for which they are brought together in a study: triangulation, complementarity, expansion, initiation, or...

in order to study genetic variation and relationship between traits, 615 accessions of local bread wheat from wheat collection of national plant gene bank of iran were evaluated. seeds of the accessions were planted in 2.5 meter long rows in an observatory design and 17 agro-morphological traits were measured. grain yield of 5 spikes, number of tillers and number of seeds per spike were of high...

Qualitative simulation (QS) is an area of artificial intelligence that represent continuos and discrete aspects like space, time and quantity with little information, and makes inferences using symbolic data to represent physical quantities. Tradicionally, QS uses a global statebased representation to represent the behavior of the system. To qualitative simulate a system, some initial values ar...