We killed several much-loved projects because it became clear that they had limited commercial potential; instead we opted for a rigorous stage-gate development process (our term for it was "ruthless decision making") that would require clear evidence of solid commercial potential before projects could go forward.
In conducting a rigorous, staged systematic review to identify the key studies in the health sector about structural holes, spaces, disconnections, and weak or absent ties I note that comparatively few studies deal squarely with the gap phenomenon.
Adopting a rigorous equilibrium stage model for simulating an amine-based Acid Gas Removal (AGR) process is not straightforward technique.
His determination that the process of appointing a performance director in the right manner, such as inviting applications and going through a rigorous interview stage, has been seen as his opposing Woodward's candidacy.
As the mathematician Terence Tao has written, math study has three stages: the "pre-rigorous," in which basic rules are learned, the theoretical "rigorous" stage, and, last and most intriguing, "the post-rigorous," in which intuition suddenly starts to play a part.
To ensure the representativeness of the participants in the different countries surveyed in PIRLS, IEA used a rigorous two-stage stratified sampling procedure, wherein schools were sampled in the first stage and students in the second (Joncas [2007]).
Candidates for the Truman Scholarship go through a rigorous, multi-stage selection process.
Garry was up against more than 200 other hopefuls chasing just four places and had to go through a rigorous three-stage recruitment process which included panel interviews and critical thinking assessments.
Employing a rigorous multi-stage scale development process we interviewed 37 participants and surveyed 463 respondents across a wide range of PSFs including lawyers, accountants, consulting engineers and management consultants.
We selected 1,462 orthologous gene sets representing 144 prokaryotic genomes, and applied a rigorous two-stage approach to identify recombination breakpoints within these sequences.
By applying a rigorous two-stage analysis of Infinium HumanMethylation450 BeadArray data with an agnostic genome-wide assessment that encompassed all annotated CpG islands, including those outside of the gene promoter context, our study provides contrast to the majority of existing studies, which with few exceptions employ a candidate-gene approach centered on promoter methylation.
