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Using Mixed-Methods Research to Study Coping Strategies among Colorectal Cancer Patients

Asia-Pacific Journal of Oncology Nursing, 2020
Objective: The objective was to identify and understand the coping strategies of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients. Methods: A mixed-methods approach including quantitative and qualitative methods was used to collect data from Jordanian patients.
Loai Abu Sharour, Omar AL Omari, Malakeh Z Malak, Ayman Bani Salameh, Dalal Yehia, Maha Subih, Mohammad Alrshoud   +6 more
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Investigating Gender Assignment Strategies in Mixed Purepecha–Spanish Nominal Constructions

Languages, 2018
Purepecha has no grammatical gender, whereas Spanish has a binary masculine–feminine system. In this paper we investigate how early sequential Purepecha–Spanish bilinguals assign gender to Purepecha nouns inserted into an otherwise Spanish utterance ...
Kate Bellamy, M. Carmen Parafita Couto, Hans Stadthagen-Gonzalez   +2 more
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Mixed methods integration strategies used in education: A systematic review

Methodological Innovations
Mixed methods research (MMR) has been widely adopted in a plethora of disciplines. Integration is the pressing issue regarding the legitimation, the added value, and the quality of using MMR, though inadequate literature has discussed effective ...
Yi Zhou, Yuchun Zhou, Krisanna Machtmes
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From Goal Programming for Continuous Multi-Criteria Optimization to the Target Decision Rule for Mixed Uncertain Problems

Entropy, 2021
Goal programming (GP) is applied to the discrete and continuous version of multi-criteria optimization. Recently, some essential analogies between multi-criteria decision making under certainty (M-DMC) and scenario-based one-criterion decision making ...
Helena Gaspars-Wieloch
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Computing Effective Mixed Strategies for Protecting Targets in Large-Scale Critical Infrastructure Networks

Frontiers in Physics, 2021
Most critical infrastructure networks often suffer malicious attacks, which may result in network failures. Therefore, how to design more robust defense measures to minimize the loss is a great challenge. In recent years, defense strategies for enhancing
Zhen Wang, Mengting Jiang, Yu Yang, Lili Chen, Hong Ding   +4 more
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μ–σ Games

Games, 2021
Risk aversion in game theory is usually modeled using expected utility, which was criticized early on, leading to an extensive literature on generalized expected utility.
Uwe Dulleck, Andreas Löffler
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Editorial: Introduction to the special issue, innovative approaches to visual methods in mixed method research in psychological fields

Methods in Psychology, 2022
The use of integrative visual displays to advance analysis is a rapidly evolving topic of inquiry in mixed methods research. This editorial serves dual purposes.
Elizabeth G. Creamer, Cherie D. Edwards
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Composition of medium and large-sized mammals in two protected areas of the Atlantic Forest in the central western mesoregion of Paraná state, Brazil

Revista de Biologia Neotropical, 2023
There is a significant lack of information on the diversity of medium- and large-sized mammal species in heavily anthropologically altered regions, such as the Atlantic Forest of Southern Brazil.
Alan Deivid Pereira, Sergio Bazilio
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Higher productivity in forests with mixed mycorrhizal strategies

Nature Communications, 2023
Decades of theory and empirical studies have demonstrated links between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, yet the putative processes that underlie these patterns remain elusive.
Shan Luo, Richard P. Phillips, Insu Jo, Songlin Fei, Jingjing Liang, Bernhard Schmid, Nico Eisenhauer   +6 more
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Learning Mixed Strategies in Quantum Games with Imperfect Information

Quantum Reports, 2022
The quantization of games expand the players strategy space, allowing the emergence of more equilibriums. However, finding these equilibriums is difficult, especially if players are allowed to use mixed strategies.
Agustin Silva, Omar Gustavo Zabaleta, Constancio Miguel Arizmendi   +2 more
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