Suchergebnisse

"Acknowledging the impact of sociological factors on the survey process, this book introduces a paradigm for the cognitive interview process. It introduces the interpretive approach to cognitive interviewing, presents the underlying theoretical foundations, and explores the issues relating it. The book also addresses the various aspects of data collection, analysis, and documentation. It is an ideal reference for survey researchers and practitioners in the social sciences who utilize these techniques in their everyday work and as a supplement for courses on survey methods at the upper-undergraduate and graduate levels"--

GENESYS : a candidate for an Artemis cross-domain architecture for embedded systems. Eds. Roman Obermaisser, Herman Kopetz., 99 - 133 ; It is the objective of this book to give an overview of the cross-domain architecture for embedded systems that has been developed in the context of the European FP 7 research project GENESYS (GENeric Embedded SYStem FP7-213322) from January 2008 to June 2009. GENESYS is a candidate for the ARTEMIS European Reference Architecture for embedded systems. ARTEMIS is a European joint technology initiative (JTI) that bundles the efforts of European players from industry, academia and governments in the domain of embedded systems in order to develop a cross-domain approach to Embedded System Design. Such a cross-domain approach is needed to support the coming Internet of Things, to take full advantage of the economies of scale of the semiconductor industry and to improve the productivity of the human resources. GENESYS is a platform architecture that provides a minimal set of core services at the waist and a plurality of optional service that are predominantly implemented as self-contained system components. Choosing a suitable set of these system components that implement optional services, augmented by application specific components, can generate domain-specific instantiations of the architectures.

"Politimetrics" (Gurr 1972), "polimetrics," (Alker 1975), "politometrics" (Hilton 1976), "political arithmetic" (Petty [1672] 1971), "quantitative Political Science (QPS)," "governmetrics," "posopolitics" (Papayanopoulos 1973), "political science statistics" (Rai and Blydenburgh 1973), "political statistics" (Rice 1926). These are some of the names that scholars have used to describe the field we now call "political methodology."1The history of political methodology has been quite fragmented until recently, as reflected by this patchwork of names. The field has begun to coalesce during the past decade; we are developing persistent organizations, a growing body of scholarly literature, and an emerging consensus about important problems that need to be solved.