Faculty Opinions recommendation of Combining qualitative and quantitative evidence to determine factors leading to late presentation for antiretroviral therapy in Malawi.

Mixed methods reviews offer an excellent approach to synthesizing qualitative and quantitative evidence to generate more robust implications for practice, research, and policymaking. There are limited guidance and practical examples concerning the methods for adequately synthesizing qualitative and quantitative research findings in mixed reviews. This paper aims to illustrate the application and use of joint displays for qualitative and quantitative synthesis in mixed methods reviews. We used joint displays to synthesize and integrate qualitative and quantitative research findings in a segregated mixed methods review about male nursing students' challenges and experiences. In total, 36 qualitative, six quantitative, and one mixed-methods study was appraised and synthesized in the review. First, the qualitative and quantitative findings were analyzed and synthesized separately. The synthesized findings were integrated through tabular and visual joint displays at two levels of integration. At the first level, a statistics theme display was developed to compare the synthesized qualitative and quantitative findings and the number of studies from which the findings were generated. At the second level, the synthesized qualitative and quantitative findings supported by each other were integrated to identify confirmed, discordant, and expanded inferences using generalizing theme display. The use of two displays allowed in a robust and comprehensive synthesis of studies. Joint displays could serve as an excellent method for rigorous and transparent synthesis of qualitative and quantitative findings and the generation of adequate and relevant inferences in mixed methods reviews.

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Elite Parties and Poor Voters: Theory and Evidence from India

American Political Science Review ◽

10.1017/s0003055414000069 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 108 (2) ◽

pp. 454-477 ◽

Cited By ~ 30

Author(s):

TARIQ THACHIL

Keyword(s):

Western World ◽

Poor People ◽

Quantitative Evidence ◽

Qualitative And Quantitative ◽

Material Interests ◽

Basic Services ◽

Religious Social Movements ◽

The Rich ◽

Novel Strategy ◽

Electoral Division

Why do poor people often vote against their material interests? This article extends the study of this global paradox to the non-Western world by considering how it manifests within India, the world's biggest democracy. Arguments derived from studies of advanced democracies (such as values voting) or of poor polities (such as patronage and ethnic appeals) fail to explain this important phenomenon. Instead, I outline a novel strategy predicated on an electoral division of labor enabling elite parties to recruit the poor while retaining the rich. Recruitment is outsourced to nonparty affiliates that provide basic services to appeal to poor communities. Such outsourcing permits the party to maintain programmatic linkages to its elite core. Empirically, I test this argument with qualitative and quantitative evidence, including a survey of more than 9,000 voters. Theoretically, I argue that this approach is best suited to elite parties with thick organizations, typically those linked to religious social movements.

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Media Manipulation in Interwar France: Evidence from the Archive of Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas, 1914–1937

Contemporary European History ◽

10.1017/s0960777315000454 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 25 (1) ◽

pp. 11-36

Author(s):

MARC FLANDREAU ◽

FRÉDÉRIC ZUMER

Keyword(s):

Interwar Period ◽

Political History ◽

Investment Bank ◽

Quantitative Evidence ◽

Media Control ◽

Qualitative And Quantitative ◽

Archival Material ◽

History Of ◽

History Of Information ◽

Media Manipulation

AbstractThis article shows how one can read political history from evidence on corporate corruption. The study exploits newly discovered archival material from Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas, a politically connected investment bank. We contribute to current research by replacing existing conjectures with precise qualitative and quantitative evidence. After reviewing previous works and providing a sketch of information repression and media control in France during the interwar period, we argue that the study of patterns of ‘informational criminality’ provides an original entry to the writing of political history and the history of information.

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Tariffs and the textile trade between Brazil and Britain (1808-1860)

Estudos Econômicos (São Paulo) ◽

10.1590/0101-41615124tzp ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 51 (2) ◽

pp. 311-342

Author(s):

Thales Augusto Zamberlan Pereira

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Quantitative Analysis ◽

Foreign Trade ◽

Quantitative Information ◽

Institutional Changes ◽

Product Price ◽

Quantitative Evidence ◽

Qualitative And Quantitative ◽

Textile Trade ◽

Monetary Instability

Abstract The commercial treaty with Britain in 1810, along the authorization of foreign trade in ports in 1808, are among the most important institutional changes in nineteenth century Brazil. The 1810 treaty lowered tariffs for British manufactures while maintaining high tariffs in Britain for Brazilian sugar and coffee. These terms are generally viewed as disastrous for the Brazilian economy, although there is still limited quantitative information about how much the tariff affected the demand for British imports. This paper provides new qualitative and quantitative evidence on the operation and effect of Brazil’s imports tariffs in the period. I find that the effect of the tariffs is different from what traditional literature assumes. First, the monetary instability in the 1820s and conflicts over product price assessment often led the de facto tariff to be higher than the 15 percent established by the treaty. Second, even with higher rates, quantitative analysis shows they did not have decrease imports of British textiles.

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From dynamic modal to conditional protasis connective

Functions of Language ◽

10.1075/fol.20030.kuo ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Yueh Hsin Kuo

Keyword(s):

Epistemic Modals ◽

Quantitative Evidence ◽

Qualitative And Quantitative ◽

Do So

Abstract The grammaticalization literature has not demonstrated convincingly how, if at all, dynamic modals may develop into conditional protasis connectives. Drawing on qualitative and quantitative evidence from Chinese, this paper hypothesizes that such a directionality may arise through univerbation between dynamic modals and protasis connectives (e.g. ruò ‘if’ + néng ‘be able to’ > ruònéng ‘if’). Furthermore, this paper suggests that functional compatibility in terms of performativity may explain why dynamic modals tend to grammaticalize into connectives in pre-established conditional protases, while deontic and epistemic modals do so in main clauses.

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The V2 syntax of Medieval Romance

Verb Second in Medieval Romance ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198804673.003.0002 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 17-34

Author(s):

Sam Wolfe

Keyword(s):

Old French ◽

Romance Languages ◽

Medieval Romance ◽

Quantitative Evidence ◽

Old Spanish ◽

Qualitative And Quantitative ◽

Old Occitan ◽

Old Portuguese ◽

New Evidence ◽

Detailed Presentation

This chapter provides a detailed presentation of the main data and arguments which have been proposed in favour of claiming that the Medieval Romance languages were V2 systems and considers data from Old French, Old Occitan, Old Italo-Romance varieties, Old Spanish, and Old Portuguese. It provides new qualitative and quantitative evidence to show the nature of the prefield, Germanic inversion, matrix/embedded asymmetries, and the precise types of verb-first and verb-third-or-greater orders provide new evidence in favour of the V2 hypothesis. It also suggests that the diachronic emergence of a V2 grammar is entirely plausible on the basis of the available data. The main objections to the V2 account proposed in the literature are evaluated and argued to face empirical and theoretical problems.

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Crawling behaviour of the amphipod Corophium volutator and foraging by Semipalmated Sandpipers, Calidris pusilla

Canadian Journal of Zoology ◽

10.1139/z89-066 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 67 (2) ◽

pp. 457-462 ◽

Cited By ~ 34

Author(s):

J. Sherman Boates ◽

Peter C. Smith

Keyword(s):

Nova Scotia ◽

Food Intake ◽

Lunar Cycle ◽

Intertidal Mudflat ◽

Sharp Reduction ◽

Corophium Volutator ◽

Quantitative Evidence ◽

Qualitative And Quantitative ◽

Calidris Pusilla ◽

Semipalmated Sandpipers

During late spring and summer, the crawling behaviour of the amphipod Corophium volutator was studied on an intertidal mudflat in the Minas Basin, Nova Scotia. On average, less than 1% of the population crawled on any tide and these individuals tended to be large adults that were predominantly males. Animals emerged as the tide receded but most had crawled into burrows after 25 min. The crawling behaviour did not seem to be related to the lunar cycle as was expected; however, there was a sharp reduction in crawling activity (from 36.3 to 1.2 amphipods/m2) in July that coincided with the arrival of Semipalmated Sandpipers, Calidris pusilla, an abundant seasonal predator. The proportion of males in the amphipod population declined during the period when sandpipers were present. It appears that both a change in amphipod behaviour and depletion of the animals most prone to crawling may contribute to the observed reduction in crawling activity. Qualitative and quantitative evidence show that sandpipers were attracted to the tide edge where crawling amphipods were relatively abundant and that they increased their food intake by doing so.

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