A one-on-one semi-structured interview format was used, in which a flexible framework of questions was built around discussion of six maps which were designed to foster discussion of the participants' views on map data classification, colour scheme, content, key expression, and usefulness (Figure 1).
They were a flexible framework of questions which allowed the interviewers to adapt the questions to the interest, knowledge and language ability of participants.
This provides a flexible framework for design of NCS that is amenable to various extensions and modifications, such as a treatment of dropouts and stochastic protocols, combined controller/protocol design for linear plants, and so on.
As a result of the potentially wide range of equilibrium shapes, interface crystallographies, and transitional morphologies that the microstructural evolution imposes, the experimental method provides a flexible framework for fundamental studies of the energetic and kinetic properties of ceramic metal interfaces.
The proposed mixture model for functional clustering of gene expression profiles provides a flexible framework for estimating the number of mixing components, the periodic means of each component, and the variance-covariance structures.
The model is shown to provide a flexible framework for consistent interpretation of experimental loading paths, and can be readily applied to challenging boundary value problems, such as studying the stability of slopes exposed to acid rain or predicting the effectiveness of CO2 injection in carbonate rocks.
The branching process model presented herein offers a flexible framework for the analysis of CFSE-labeling experiments.
Our approach provides a flexible framework for the estimation of diversification parameters and hypothesis testing while simultaneously accounting for uncertainties in the divergence times and incomplete taxon sampling.
Multi-state models offer a flexible framework for estimating survival of individuals belonging to different states, and are particularly useful for estimating survival when the data contain missing observations (Letcher and Horton 2008).
They provide a flexible framework to study emerging properties of systems composed of discrete units in the biological (Jacobi and Jonsson 2011; Latty et al. 2011), medical (Grassly and Fraser 2008; Gleeson et al. 2012), social (Newman and Park 2003; Derzsi et al. 2011) and technological sciences (Schweitzer et al. 2009; Vespignani 2012).
We recommend the development of a flexible framework to help qualitative researchers to define, apply and demonstrate principles of quality in their research.
