Mixed-method approach
HPV testing: a mixed method approach to understand why women prefer self collection in a middle income country
... available free of cost in all public health establishments in the province since 2012 [8]. The women in the study had the possibility of choosing between self-collection at home and collection by a physician at health ...
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Speaking Skill Development through the Implementation of Multimedia Projects
... a mixed method approach and results suggested that the majority of students became highly engaged in communicative situations, which allowed them to improve their limited language ...
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My interests, my activities: Learning from an intergenerational comparison of smartwatch use
... the mixed-method approach allows us to establish a very different picture: an old person who uses the smartwatch mostly as a pedometer to track his high levels of daily walking activity, but for which ...
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Contribucin de la investigacin formativa para el diseo de un programa para la prevencin de obesidad en escuelas de la Ciudad de Mxico
... Objective. This paper describes the methods and key findings of formative research conducted to design a school- based program for obesity prevention. Materials and methods. Formative research was based on the ecologi- ...
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TítuloStabilized dual mixed method for the problem of linear elasticity with mixed boundary conditions
... dual-mixed method introduced recently in [4, 5] to the problem of linear elasticity with mixed boundary ...The method is based on the Hellinger–Reissner principle and the symmetry of the ...
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SYNTHESIS OF MAGNETIC MIXED OXIDE NANOPARTICLES USING THE NOVEL OIL IN WATER MICROEMULSION REACTION METHOD
... The magnetic nature of the nanoparticles was assessed in a qualitative fashion by looking at their interaction with a Neodimium magnet.. The approach was to put a magnet near the flask containing the nanoparticles ...
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Panel method for the aerodynamic calculation of mixed configurations with finite thickness and zero thickness
... panel method is making use of both Dirichlet and Neumann bound- ary conditions so in order to provide a closed and fully characterized BEM we have carried out a formal study to estimate the global error that each ...
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A banach spaces-based analysis of a new fully-mixed finite element method for the boussinesq problem
... a mixed-primal formulation for the n -dimensional case can be ...the mixed formulation for the momentum ...same approach from [5] for the Navier-Stokes equations, a mixed formulation for the ...
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A new computational approach to solve convolutional integral equations - the method of sampling for one dimension
... Most of the previous work solving uni-dimensional Fredholm Equations in electrodynamics is mainly focused on MoM methodology. The different approaches using the MoM have estab- lished benchmarks for computational ...
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Environment, mathematics and the best solution to stop natural world destruction
... need precise specification of parameters, as the quoted study requires. The precise optimality of such certificates—Principal optimization prob- lem—depends on the given models. After using this method for a ...
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HOW YOUNG MEN ASSERT MASCULINITY :
... We approached a mixed data collection method of in-depth interviews and focus group. Interviews with different discussions about men’s opinion about masculinity issues and their approach to deal with ...
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Distance and overcurrent relay coordination considering non standardized inverse time curves
... As stated in Chapter 1, in the the simplest case of the protective devices coordi- nation problem a configuration of discrete settings is computed and selected within a predefined selection range, the above description ...
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Including functional usability features in a Model-Driven Development Method
... To sum-up, our approach has two alternatives to include usability features in an existing MDD method: (1) modifying the existing MDD method (its conceptual model and its model compiler[r] ...
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TítuloA posteriori error analysis of an augmented mixed finite element method for Darcy flow
... The problem of Darcy flow is of great importance in civil, geotechnical and petroleum engineering. It describes the flow of a fluid through a porous medium. The natural unknowns are the fluid pressure and the fluid ...
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Evaluating construction projects of hotels based on environmental sustainability with MCDM framework
... combined approach using AHP to rate importance of sustainable factors, Shannon entropy to evaluate the weight factor for each phase of mate- rial life cycle and TOPSIS for ranking of the structural mate- ...
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BOUNDARY CONTROLLABILITY OF A LINEAR SEMI-DISCRETE 1-D WAVE EQUATION DERIVED FROM A MIXED FINITE ELEMENT METHOD
... In the last years many works have dealt with the numerical approximations of the control problem (1)-(2) using the HUM approach. For instance, in references [4], [6] and [7] numerical algorithms based on both the ...
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A domain adaptation method for text classification based on self-adjusted training approach
... A linear classifier is trained with the labeled examples of the auxiliary do- main. All the instances in the target domain are then classified. Support Vector Machines (SVM) algorithm was chosen because it is a very ...
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A fully-mixed finite element method for the coupling of the Navier-Stokes and Darcy-Forchheimer equations
... In this section we establish the corresponding C´ea estimate. For this purpose, we first in- troduce some notations and state a couple of previous results. We begin by recalling the discrete inf-sup condition of B (cf. ...
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TítuloA residual based a posteriori error estimator for an augmented mixed finite element method in linear elasticity
... stabilized mixed finite element method for plane linear elasticity was presented and analyzed recently in ...The approach there is based on the introduction of suitable Galerkin least-squares terms ...
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Sparse KNN a method for object recognition over x ray images using KNN based in sparse reconstruction
... (AISM), wich was presented originally in [47] by Riffo et al and which shares similarities with our method). There are contributions using known recognition techniques (see, for example, bag of words [14] and ...
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