Differences in the city and village in terms of power consumption(case study: poldokhtar city) by Alireza Rahimi, Nader Nazemi, jamaleddin honarvar

“…The present research is descriptive-analytical in terms of purpose and method. The data-gathering tool and information collection and interviews with urban and rural households in Poledokhtar city. …”
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Evaluating Affective User-Centered Design of Video Games Using Qualitative Methods by Yiing Y’ng Ng, Chee Weng Khong, Robert Jeyakumar Nathan

“…We also discuss our approaches within the context of existing affective gaming and user-centered design theory and data gathering procedures, including the factors affecting internal and external validity and the data analysis techniques.…”
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CREDIBILITY COMMITMENT AND PEACE BUILDING IN THE NIGER DELTA REGION OF NIGERIA by CHINEDU EKPERECHUKWU ETI, SUNDAY DIDAM AUDU, GOODNEWS OSAH

“…This study examines the critical factor of credibility commitment in the context of peacebuilding initiatives of the federal government of Nigeria and its influence on the resurgence of the conflict in the Niger Delta region. The method of data gathering is drawn from literature and biographic narratives of the actors and victims of the conflict. …”
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Evolving techniques in sentiment analysis: a comprehensive review by Mahander Kumar, Lal Khan, Hsien-Tsung Chang

“…This review comprehensively examines the evolving techniques in sentiment analysis, detailing foundational processes such as data gathering and feature extraction. It explores a spectrum of methodologies, from classical word embedding techniques and machine learning algorithms to recent contextual embedding and advanced transformer models like Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT), Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT), and T5. …”
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Sensibility and sense of belonging to the place in promoting the social capital of the villagers (Case study: Kurdish villages, Rudbar city) by Majid Yasouri, Samira Mahmoudi, Ali Reza Darban Astaneh, Fatemeh Emami

“…This research is an applied and descriptive-analytical approach that is conducted with a sample of 355 people among the people of Kurdish villages in Rudbar city. The data gathering tool in this research included: library studies for gathering information about research literature and then field research through observation and questionnaire. …”
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The Ecuadorian State in the southeastern frontier: a creation based on affection, 1893-1964 by Cecilia Ortiz-Batallas

“…Thus, a different approach to data gathering had to be undertaken. It is argued that in those remote frontier territories, the Salesian missionaries became the actual and real proxy of the central government as well as of other external powers: the House of Don Bosco and the Vatican. …”
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IoT-Based Library Automation & Monitoring system: Developing an Implementation framework by Majid Bayani, Alberto Segura, Marjorie Alvarado, Mayra Loaiza

“…These characteristics of IoT allow implementing an online library supply chain, integrating it with different types of technologies such as data bases, data gathering, and cloud systems. The Internet of Things can also provide a global linking of a huge number of libraries and universities in real time, all the time. …”
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Identifying and Analyzing the Effects of Urban Creep on the Situation Development of Rural Areas around (Case Study: Villages around of Marivan City) by saadi mohammadi, askandar moradi, Sharmin hosaini

“…The main objective of this research is to identify the consequences of the Marivan Creep phenomenon on the changes in the development status of the surrounding villages, Over the last few decades, physical development has been speeding up. Data gathering in the theoretical part of the documentary and in the field was conducted by a survey method based on an interview with the local people and the locals to identify the outcomes, and then the classical distribution of the questionnaire among the studied villages and simple random among 203 households supervised by The Cochran formula was determined by volume, 30 from local development experts and observers of the status quo, in order to generalize the findings from the interviews. …”
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Analysis of the relationship of regional deprivation indices with environmental sustainability (Case study: villages of Poldokhtar Township) by Mehrshad Toulabi Nejad, jaad Bazrafshan, sirous ghanbari

“…The present research is applied in a targeted, applied way and the method is descriptive-analytical. The data gathering tool was a questionnaire, an interview with the locals, a statistical journal of Lorestan province and data from the deputy of rural development and deprived areas. …”
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Optimal Locating of prisons from the perspective of Passive Defense principles and criteria (Case Study: City of Dogonbadan) by Mostafa Mirabadi, Hosein Nazari, Sadegh Besharatifar

“…The purpose of this study was applied and considering that specific method has been used to identify optimal locations for prison location which is less used, it is considered a development and is, from a methodological point of view, an analytical descriptive research. The method of data gathering is documentary and field. In this research 14 criteria have been used to locate ideal zones for prison establishment. …”
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Study of effective factors on the rate of citizen\'s trust to the municipal performance of Sari city by shahram mollania jelodar, maryam malmir, seyed Hassan rasouli, zahra tabali

“…Regarding to the volume of statistical universe, the samples were selected by a multi-stages method (clustering sampling and simple sampling). Our data gathering instrument was a research-made questionnaire. …”
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End-to-End Methodology for Predictive Maintenance Based on Fingerprint Routines and Anomaly Detection for Machine Tool Rotary Components by Amaia Arregi, Aitor Barrutia, Iñigo Bediaga

“…This work introduces an end-to-end methodology, from data gathering to fault notification, for the predictive maintenance of rotary components of machine tools. …”
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School based continuous professional development practices at a selected general secondary and preparatory school in Bahir Dar town by Dereje Taye Wondem

“…Interview, focus group discussion and document analysis were used as data gathering tools. Data were analyzed thematically. …”
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Proficient Node Scheduling Protocol for Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks by R. Saravanakumar, N. Mohankumar, J. Raja

“…In WSNs, large numbers of tiny sensor nodes are used as an effective way of data gathering in various environments. Since the sensor nodes operate on battery of limited power, it is a great challenging aim to design an energy-efficient routing protocol, which can minimize the delay while offering high-energy efficiency and long span of network lifetime. …”
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Religious Associational Life amongst Black African Christian Students at Howard College Campus, University of KwaZulu-Natal by Anthonia Ishabiyi, Sultan Khan

“…The methodological approach to the study embraced both qualitative and quantitative data gathering tools. Semi-structured self-administered questionnaires were used to gather data. …”
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Explanation of entrepreneurship small business challenges in rural area, The case of study: Bijar, Iran by Hossein Farahani, Mina Alvandi

“…There are also 283 rural villages in the seaside district, among which 12 villages have entrepreneurship and 244 of them are households using the modified Cochran formula. Data gathering method was library and field questionnaire (questionnaire). …”
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School based continuous professional development practices at a selected general secondary and preparatory school in Bahir Dar town by Dereje Taye Wondem

“…Interview, focus group discussion and document analysis were used as data gathering tools. Data were analyzed thematically. …”
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Selected Topics on Information Management in Complex Systems: Editorial Introduction to Issue 24 of CSIMQ by Erika Nazaruka

“…This means that information management activities should be implemented starting from the level of primitive data gathering and ending with enterprise-level decision making. …”
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How can brand equity for tourism destinations be used to preview tourists’ destination choice? An overview from the top of Tower of Babel by Francisco Dias, Lucília Cardoso

“…This paper describes a new research programme – Favourite Destinations Worldwide – that includes three interrelated innovative tools: (1) the destination brand choice model that allows a better conceptualization of CBBE-TD in the context of destination choice; (2) the Tower of Babel platform, a multilingual online survey for data gathering, to assess CBBE-TD of all destinations competing in the world market; and (3) the Destination Brand Gnosis, a propriety software for qualitative data analysis, transforming the meta-data into a system for constantly evaluating brand attractiveness. …”
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An Artificial Intelligence Mechanism for the Prediction of Signal Strength in Drones to IoT Devices in Smart Cities by Mohamad Reda A. Refaai, Vinjamuri S. N. C. H. Dattu, H. S. Niranjana Murthy, P. Pramod Kumar, B. Kannadasan, Abdi Diriba

“…A drone, which would be effectively a data-gathering device, could approach regions that become complicated, dangerous, or even impossible to achieve for individuals. …”
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