At the moment, we mostly possess a qualitative knowledge, namely a list of variables/situations that favor cancer initiation by presumably acting as disturbances (depression, infections, lack of sleep, stress…), but we miss quantitative information on them (e.g., intensity, frequency, length of exposure) in the context of cancer risk.
It allows construction of a continuous model from qualitative knowledge by representing this knowledge as a Boolean model and then transforming this discrete model into a continuous one.
Our understanding of the relations between oxidative metabolism and iron homeostasis is based on a large body of qualitative knowledge from heterogeneous sources, often lacking numerical data.
A preliminary search showed us that there was no qualitative synthesis specific to chronic musculoskeletal (MSK) pain, and confirmed that there was a growing body of qualitative knowledge in this area.
This paper describes our method, explores the challenges of using meta-ethnography to synthesise a large body of qualitative knowledge and develops and extends the methods proposed by Noblit and Hare.
Finally, MACOM also provides academics in the industrial marketing management discipline with a tool for developing and pre-verifying a conceptual model based on qualitative knowledge of marketing practitioners.
That is, the construction of the models is based purely on qualitative knowledge about a particular regulatory mechanism (e.g., kinase X phosphorylates and activates species Y), without the need to manually enter Boolean expressions (these are created in the background based on the biological data provided [ 69]).
Serial Analysis of Gene Expression (SAGE) is a new technique that allows a detailed and profound quantitative and qualitative knowledge of gene expression profile, without previous knowledge of sequence of analyzed genes.
The program is designed to enable recording and playback using an avatar presentation and provides qualitative knowledge of performance describing the characteristics of performance (i.e. you lifted your arm higher that time), and knowledge of results describing the result of a performance (i.e. you scored 88%) and summary feedback (feedback provided over a period of time) in chart.
Quantitative indicators are to be seen as the best possible quantitative operationalization according to present qualitative knowledge about resilience in a study region.
This paper presents a hybrid framework to represent and analyse qualitative knowledge about chemical processes to encourage the generation of intensive design strategies.
