Biobank and biochemical analyses: Amalia De Curtis (Coordinator), Federico Marracino, Maria Spinelli, Christian Silvestri and Cristina Vallese.
In centralized multi-agent planning [6] a coordinator agent analyses planning of an individual agent and identify possible inconsistencies and conflicting interactions, like conflicts between agents over limited resources.
Data from each unit were analysed, by a central coordinator, in cycles of 4 6 weeks, and a collated report for the whole region generated periodically.
EJ, project coordinator for the cost analyses, helped to coordinate collection of cost data, conducted cost analyses, conducted literature searches relevant to cost analyses, prepared cost table for manuscript and provided a critical review and editing of manuscript.
SG performed statistical analyses; KF served as the study coordinator and data manager.
BL participated in the conceptualization and design of the study, acted as coordinator, performed the statistical analyses and helped to draft and finalize the manuscript.
BL participated in the conceptualization and design of the study, acted as coordinator, aided in the statistical analyses, drafted and finalized the manuscript.
The IMPI Africa Operations Committee (BMM [Chair], CSW [Coordinator], MN, JAV, GM, FG, PJC) designed the study, coordinated data collection, analyses and interpretation, and wrote the first draft of the manuscript.
All statistical analyses will be performed by the project coordinators, who have a long experience and formal training in biostatistics.
In this sixth stage of the identification process, a team of scientists representing all involved disciplines (the archaeologist responsible for the archaeological report, the anthropologist who analysed the case, the geneticist, and the laboratory coordinator) convene to discuss the findings.
