Rapid assessment procedures: a review and critique

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Rapid Assessment Procedures (RAP) is a type of rapid appraisal approach whose definition is presented in answer to an article written by James Beebe on the three basic rapid appraisal concepts. RAP is distinct from the traditional ethnography that are used to gather information on public health problems and their prevention. However, the short span of time spent for information gathering and the accuracy of data expected to be generated by the ethnographic method pose a challenge to RAP users.

Health surveys

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Hub-and-spoke networks in air transportation: an analytical review

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Analytical research work applied to hub-and-spoke networks for passenger airlines amd courier services was reviewed to determine most pressing areas for further work. It was shown that research needs to be devoted to developing reliable heuristics for the multiple assignment model and its extensions. Furthermore, research is needed to understand the conditions under which the model will tend to have integer solutions.

Scheduled Airlines, Scheduled Air Transportation, Courier Services, Security Guards and Patrol Services, Air Transportation, Scheduled, And Air Courier Services, TRANSPORTATION BY AIR, Air Transportation, Detective & armored car services, Research, Airlines, Delivery services, Air transportation industry, Civil aviation, Air travel, Express delivery services

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Text Mining Using Database Tomography and Bibliometrics: A Review

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This paper is a review of the development, generations, applications, potentials and in technology forecasting of a textual database analysis system called database tomography.

United States, On-Line Information Services, Information retrieval services, Database Vendors NEC, Statistical Data Included, Database industry, Machine-readable bibliographic data, Bibliometrics, Machine readable bibliographic data

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