The UK government is currently attempting to encourage consumers to buy more locally produced food. It is hoped that this will provide economic, environmental and social benefits to local areas, leading to more sustainable patterns of consumption. This qualitative study looks at the views and behaviour of consumers towards local foods with a particular focus on the barriers that prevent greater...

Many of the qualitative simulation algorithms so far proposed depend upon local propagation paradigm, and hence produce spurious states . Recent approaches use topological constraints in phase space diagrams for filtering the spurious states . We propose an alternative method of recognizing global properties in the graphically expressed qualitative model. Qualitative versions of such system-the...

This article describes the findings of a qualitative research study that was conducted with purpose proposing reformation model structure Local Administrative Organization, particularly regard to consolidation small and low-income communities. The gathered information from variety sources, such as secondary data, reports, recommendations, connected topic at hand. then assessed using content ana...

Qualitative reasoning formalisms are an active research topic in artificial intelligence. In this survey we present a model-theoretic perspective on qualitative constraint reasoning and explain some of the basic concepts and results in an accessible way. In particular, we discuss the significance of ω-categoricity for qualitative reasoning, of primitive positive interpretations for complexity a...

there are different methodes for performance evaluation of economic development plans and ranking them in comparison with each other. these methods are founded on both quantitative and qualitative approaches. however, real world events are based upon uncertainty and since quantitative methods, unlike their names, are not accurate enough, they do not seem to be efficient in qualitative decision-...

BACKGROUND In 2014, a qualitative multi-country research project was launched to study the reasons behind the high use of antibiotics in regions of Southeast Europe by using previously untrained national interviewers (who were engaged in other antibiotic microbial resistance-related investigations) to conduct qualitative interviews with local patients, physicians and pharmacists. Little knowled...

introduction local institutions in iran are known as local administrators. these indigenous self-help groups have been around since 1998 with the act of establishing self-sufficient local administrators across the country. according to the latest statistics, the rank of kermanshah province is second in the positions of local institutions across the country. interestingly, khorasane-razavi holds...

Shape is an important spatial attribute that features in much of our everyday reasoning and intelligent action. Consequently, representations of shape are important in the domain of Artificial Intelligence (AI). For the kind of commonsense reasoning that AI is interested in, it is necessary to represent shape in qualitative terms, using higher-level symbolic representations in preference to (or...