A community sample was approximated by employing a sampling frame developed from a pre-existing volunteer pool of individuals recruited for clinical research by a major hospital consortium in the Boston, MA area.
Since its inception in 1994 EICES has grown into two institutions an Earth Institute center and the Secretariat for a major environmental consortium.
It also doesn't hurt if the agent is a member of a major travel consortium, which often has access to special negotiated rates from partner hotels, airlines or cruises.
A phenomenal amount of additional sampling and sequencing, requiring a vastly inflated budget and a major international consortium would be needed to address these sampling issues.
To this end, an international leaders in quality-of-life research, ethnocultural variability, palliative medicine, surgical oncology, gastroenterology, major consortium research, medical ethics, and patient advocacy/cancer survivors was convened in Pasadena, California, on November 12 13, 2004.
Like our other special research programs (in Toys, Cars, Tags, etc) all members of Counter Intelligence will have access to Lab-wide intellectual property and will become members of one major consortium.
A consortium or franchise membership: Belonging to a major travel industry consortium, an organization of agencies that have joined to increase their buying power, can also be a sign that your agent means business.
In the UK there are 15 government-sponsored projects led by four major consortiums like UK Autodrive which are coming at the problem from different angles – predicting the behaviour of other drivers, cyclists and pedestrians, understanding the needs of elderly or disabled drivers, and the challenges of motorways.
- Sudan: Its largest oil investor is China, which holds a 41% stake in a major Sudanese oil consortium.
Prospects for development of improved diagnostic and disease-monitoring strategies for endometriosis have recently been advanced by the efforts of a major international research consortium, the international "WERF EPHect" initiative [ 84– 84].
