On Wednesday, several Louisiana food associations brought a federal lawsuit against the Labor Department and the Department of Homeland Security, which jointly administer the H-2B program, saying a new mandatory method for setting wages for foreign workers would cause "catastrophic results".
We have already begun to see more rigor in how methods are reported in papers, an initiative that Nature Neuroscience has spearheaded with our mandatory methods reporting checklist.
Protocols are in place for consistent and mandatory methods of history and examination.
A mandatory, definite course or method of action that all must follow.
Policy - A mandatory, definite course or method of action that all must follow - Particularly useful for disciplined, hierarchical organizations where all you need is compliance.
With the aim to compare our results with those reported in the open literature, we consider that the inner boundaries are disposed in a normal plane to the bearing surfaces, but it is worth to mention that this is not a mandatory condition for our method.
An effective seeding method is a mandatory step to have thin and defect-free zeolite membranes prepared by means of secondary growth method on macroporous tubular supports.
Bioanalytical method validation is a mandatory step to evaluate the ability of developed methods to provide accurate results for their routine application in order to trust the critical decisions that will be made with them.
For assemblers using a De Bruijn Graph method with a mandatory k-mer size parameter (ABySS and SOAPdenovo), we tested a range of k when running SOAPdenovo, and found k = 61 to be optimal (see Additional file 1).
Analytical methods validation is a mandatory step to evaluate the ability of developed methods to provide accurate results for their routine application.
Given Congress's rejection of the regulations, and the business community's general opposition to a mandatory ergonomics standard, what other methods might the Labor Department use to guard against repetitive stress injuries?
