We present metacodes, a new concept to guide grounded theory (GT) research in software engineering. Metacodes are high level codes that can help software engineering researchers guide the data coding process. Metacodes are constructed in the course of analyzing software engineering papers that use grounded theory as a research methodology. We performed a high level analysis to discover common t...

The perturbative description of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) breaks down even at very high temperatures [1]. The reason for this is the generation of different length (time) scales at finite temperature. At high temperatures (T ≫ ΛQCD) the gauge coupling constant is small g ≪ 1 and well separated length scales exist: 1/T ≪ 1/(gT ) ≪ 1/(gT ). For such high temperatures the region of applicabilit...

Reviewing the information systems (IS) literature shows the prevalence of studies claiming to exploit the grounded theory (GT) method. However, most of these studies follow an objectivist approach to GT. This manuscript addresses another recognized yet rarely used GT approach in IS: constructivist. The importance of IS constructivist research is briefly explained. This is followed with a recapi...

The free energy of a nonabelian gauge theory at high temperature T can be calculated to order g using resummed perturbation theory, but the method breaks down at order g. A new method is developed for calculating the free energy to arbitrarily high accuracy in the high temperature limit. It involves the construction of a sequence of two e ective eld theories by rst integrating out the momentum ...

The preferred conformations of dimethyl sulfite and their vibrational spectra were studied by matrix-isolation Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and theoretical methods (density functional theory (DFT) and Moller-Plesset (MP2), with basis sets of different sizes, including the quadruple-zeta, aug-cc-pVQZ basis). Five minima were found at these levels of theory. At the MP2/6-31++G(d,p) and...

Grounded Theory is a powerful research method for collecting and analysing research data. It was ‘discovered’ by Glaser & Strauss (1967) in the 1960s but is still not widely used or understood by researchers in some industries or PhD students in some science disciplines. This paper demonstrates the steps in the method and describes the difficulties encountered in applying Grounded Theory (GT). ...

Classical and nonclassical calculations of nucleation rates are presented for methanol, an associating vapor system. The calculations use an equation of state (EOS) that accounts for the effects of molecular association based on the statistical association fluid theory (SAFT). Two forms of classical nucleation theory (CNT) were studied: a Gibbsian form known as the P-form and the standard or S-...