The program works directly from a qualitative representation of geometry qualitative configuration space without need of any metric information.
Assuming no resource constraints, changes in the current farm systems were introduced stepwise, as both intensification of external input use (fertilisers and fodder) and qualitative changes in the configuration of the farms (i.e. changing land use towards fodder production, improving manure handling and/or changing cattle breeds).
Contrary to media inspired conceptualizations of organized crime, qualitative research investigating the configuration of drug trafficking organizations finds varying group structures within a loosely connected trade network (for a review of some of this literature see Natarajan and Hough 2000).
Even in the case of multiphase flows, where accurate quantitative predictions are difficult, computational models will be for qualitative grading of different configurations, and can greatly assist engineering decision making process.
The model output has been analysed to investigate qualitative links between the sandbank configuration and the residual flow statistics.
However, a qualitative analysis of the local configuration of the infrastructure shows that taking into account the transportation network vulnerability can explain numerous false alarms.
In the chapter, the various observation modes (Fresnel, Foucault, and derived techniques) are presented and the way the transmission electron microscope (TEM) can be used to obtain qualitative pictures of the magnetization configuration in a thin foil is discussed.
Further testing of effective connectivity did not support our hypotheses of qualitative differences in frontoparietal network configuration between groups.
We establish the existence of a solution and we determine some qualitative aspects of the optimal configurations.
We consider a class of infinite-state stochastic games generated by stateless pushdown automata (or, equivalently, 1-exit recursive state machines), where the winning objective is specified by a regular set of target configurations and a qualitative probability constraint '>0' or '=1'.
