CENTRE FOR GRADUATE STUDIES: Quantitative Techniques

Intersectional approaches, which consider how simultaneous membership in multiple social categories characterize our experiences and are linked to power and privilege, have deep roots in feminist psychology. While an intersectional approach is well suited to a variety of research questions and topics, its application to date has chiefly been found with qualitative methods; when quantitative methods are used, components of the approach are used but not clearly framed as intersectional. Building upon our previous discussion and analysis of the theoretical and epistemological issues that arise when combining intersectionality and quantitative methods, this article articulates how quantitative researchers might incorporate an intersectional approach into their work. ]

This study performed two phases of analysis to shed light on the performance and thematic evolution of China’s quantum cryptography (QC) research. First, large-scale research publication metadata derived from QC research published from 2001–2017 was used to examine the research performance of China relative to that of global peers using established quantitative and qualitative measures. Second, this study identified the thematic evolution of China’s QC research using co-word cluster network analysis, a computational science mapping technique. The results from the first phase indicate that over the past 17 years, China’s performance has evolved dramatically, placing it in a leading position. Among the most significant findings is the exponential rate at which all of China’s performance indicators (i.e., Publication Frequency, citation score, H-index) are growing. China’s H-index (a normalized indicator) has surpassed all other countries’ over the last several years.

Unlike qualitative research that relies on participants’ voices, narrative data and people’s experiences, quantitative research uses statistical techniques to undertake empirical investigations of phenomena. Quantitative research can be broadly classified into experimental and non-experimental research.

Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy has largely given way for most important routine analysis of natural, synthetic drug candidate and related molecules. The quality control and simultaneous quantitation of different residual solvents, analytes and impurities have led analysts to further exploit nuclear magnetic resonance as a viable quantitative technique. Hence, this review focuses on the use and feasibility of this technique for quantitative method validation of drug and related compounds. Validated quantitative nuclear magnetic resonance methods were simple, robust, accurate and selective for evaluating different natural and synthetic samples using various commercially accessible compounds as internal standards

Exciton dissociation between donor and acceptor is the decisive process to determine the photovoltaic performance of organic solar cells (OSCs). The rather fast dynamics of photo‐induced charge generation in well‐optimized bulk heterojunction (BHJ) composites complicate the quantitative analysis of the charge generation efficiency for donor and acceptor units. Herein, we report time‐resolved photoluminescence (TRPL) investigations and demonstrate their potential as a quantitative and contactless characterization technique allowing to separately determine the exciton splitting efficiency of donor and acceptor moieties in selected single component materials. We demonstrate that the exciton splitting efficiency for donor or acceptor moieties can be separately adjusted in these materials by post‐treatment, while the corresponding BHJ composites undergo excessive phase separation upon external stress. By relating the separate exciton splitting efficiencies to their photovoltaic performance, the limiting factor in corresponding OSCs, either charge generation or recombination, is identified

The focus of this descriptive qualitative study was to investigate the extent to which instructional designers are using gamification processes in the development of online content.

Organizations’ leaders lack security expertise when moving IT operations to the Cloud. Almost all small to medium enterprises need to solve this problem.