Probabilistic qualitative mapping for robots

2017 ◽  
Vol 98 ◽  
pp. 292-306
Author(s):  
Jennifer Padgett ◽  
Mark Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Mapping

scholarly journals Labour Migration in the Middle Hills of Nepal: Consequences on Land Management Strategies

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 1349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stéphanie Jaquet ◽  
Thomas Kohler ◽  
Gudrun Schwilch
Keyword(s):  
Land Management ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Mapping Method ◽  
Forest Recovery ◽  
Labour Migration ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Grazing Land ◽  
Climate Conditions ◽  
Labour Shortage ◽  
Qualitative Mapping

Labour migration in Nepal is having profound effects on land management. We take two examples from the hills of Nepal where the increasing trend in outmigration continues unabated and explore its consequences. The purpose of this study is to understand the impacts of the subsequent labour shortage on land management and how it affects households. We used data from two surveys and assessed land use change and degradation with a qualitative mapping method. The findings show that the local context leads to very different strategies in terms of land management. In one study area, land was left to lie fallow without any use, leading to overgrowth and forest recovery due to favourable climate conditions. In the other, land was no longer used as cropland but turned into grazing land with consequences such as land degradation. This study provides strong empirical data and also contributes to the mountain research community by shedding light on the effects of outmigration on land management in the hills of Nepal. We suggest that these effects, including the labour shortage and the increasingly important role of remittances, should be addressed in an integrative but differentiated way that takes into account the regional context.

Screening for Ptaquiloside in Ferns: Using Herbarium Specimens for Qualitative Mapping Purposes

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 575-583 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Holm Rasmussen ◽  
Henrik AErenlund Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
Herbarium Specimens ◽  
Qualitative Mapping

scholarly journals ROLE OF COVID AS A CATALYST IN INCREASING ADOPTION OF OTTS IN INDIA: A STUDY OF EVOLVING CONSUMER CONSUMPTION PATTERNS AND FUTURE BUSINESS SCOPE

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 298-311
Author(s):  
Garima Sharma Nijhawan ◽  
Surbhi Dahiya
Keyword(s):  
Primary Data ◽  
Industry Research ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Content Consumption ◽  
Data Content ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Ease Of Access ◽  
Qualitative Mapping ◽  
The Impact

COVID-19 is an unprecedented global pandemic which has changed the way audience consume media. An undeniable trend surfaced in this period– adoption of OTTs. There are many reports which point to the growing market and consumer appetite for content of choice available on OTT platforms. OTTs offer a never before consumer advantage– choice of content, ease of access, choice of device / mediums (hand phone, laptop, tablet or TV screen). Gone are the days when family members fought for screen time of choice on family’s singular home device i.e. TV. With this study, the researchers studied the evolution of OTT space in India and reviewed the dynamic OTT space – evaluate some firsts like big banner movie releases on platforms like Amazon and Netflix, return of old content like Mythological programmes from the DD era on Hotstar etc. To complete the study, it was imperative to evaluate the impact of growing content consumption on psychographics across generations (children, adults and elderlies) as there is limited censorship in the OTT space. With this background, the researchers workedon the objectives and tried to evaluate the role played by the pandemic in evolving OTT media consumption trends; a qualitative mapping of increase in OTT adoption – Pre and Post COVID 19 in India; study underlying trends around increasing consumer appetite for the medium and analyse psychographic impact on children, adults and elderlies – listing pros and cons for freely available content with minimal censorship. The researchers adopteda combined qualitative and quantitative approach to extrapolate the data. A survey was also conducted to do audience mapping and analysis.In addition to primary data, content from news articles, industry research reports, international journals for accumulation of key trends were analysed.

scholarly journals A Health Records Review of Outpatient Referrals from the Emergency Department

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Nicholas Prudhomme ◽  
Edmund S. H. Kwok ◽  
Laura Olejnik ◽  
Shannon White ◽  
Venkatesh Thiruganasambandamoorthy
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Department ◽  
Waiting Times ◽  
Health Records ◽  
Ottawa Hospital ◽  
Outpatient Consultation ◽  
Adult Outpatient ◽  
Ed Visits ◽  
Lost To Follow Up ◽  
Qualitative Mapping

Objectives. Many patients discharged home from the emergency department (ED) require urgent outpatient consultation with a specialty service. We sought to identify the best- and worst-performing services with regard to time to outpatient consultation, the proportion of patients lost to follow-up, the rate of related return ED visits prior to consultation, and common strategies used by our top-performing clinics. Methods. We conducted a health records review of The Ottawa Hospital ED visits during four 1-week periods. All consecutive adult outpatient consultation requests were included for chart review and were followed up to 12 months. Outcome measures included demographics, referral attendance rates, incomplete referrals, return ED visits, and time intervals. Services with at least 15 consultation requests were included for data analysis and qualitative mapping of their referral processes. Results. Of the 963 patients who met inclusion criteria, 803 (83.4%) attended their appointment, while 160 (16.6%) were lost to follow-up. The overall median time to successful consultation was 9 days (IQR = 2–27). 92 (9.6%) patients returned to the ED with a related complaint. The top-performing clinics included ophthalmology, orthopedics, and thrombosis (median = 1, 8, 1 days; incomplete consultation = 3%, 4%, 6%; return ED visits = 0%, 6%, 2% respectively). The bottom-performing clinics included otorhinolaryngology, neurology, and gynecology (median = 47, 39, 27 days; incomplete consultation = 50%, 41%, 37%; return ED visits = 11%, 15%, 26%, respectively). Processes incorporated by top-performing clinics included reserving appointment slots for emergency referrals, structured referral forms, and centralized booking. Conclusions. We found a substantial variability in both the waiting times and reliability of outpatient referrals from the ED. Top-performing clinics incorporate common referral processes.

Doing mobile ethnography: Grounded, situated and comparative

Urban Studies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 421-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Streule
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
Situated Knowledge ◽  
Empirical Methods ◽  
Urban Territories ◽  
Complementary Set ◽  
Urban Conditions ◽  
Qualitative Mapping

This paper explores and discusses the experimental, critical and self-reflective use of differing methods in urban studies. In the context of frequent calls to investigate urban processes in a planetary and comparative perspective, the empirical groundedness of research is among the particularly complex challenges urban scholars are confronted with. The key question is: how can qualitative-empirical methods, such as ethnography or qualitative mapping, be adapted to explore contemporary urban conditions? This paper seeks to contribute to current debates by introducing a specific methodological design of a mobile ethnography that enables an analysis of large and heterogeneous urban territories, in three main ways: first, by offering a theoretically informed and empirically grounded transductive research design; second, by proposing a complementary set of cartographic, historiographic and comparative methods of which mobile ethnography is a part; and third, by suggesting post- and decolonial methodological perspectives, both conceptually by engaging with Latin American urbanisms, as well as empirically by furthering collaborative ways of knowledge production. To conclude, the paper stresses the need to continually develop new inventive methods for comparative urban research, for two main reasons: (1) to enable scholars to question established geographical representations and parochial imaginaries of urban space, and (2) to problematise methodological and theoretical dogmas with situated knowledge. By suggesting different representations of the urban, the paper thus emphasises how important it is to transductively entangle empirical and theoretical conceptualisations to further decentre and pluralize urban knowledge production.

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