Ethical approval was not required for this research in any of the countries described, as respondents participating in the expert data template and provider interviews were approached in their professional function only and no sensitive personal information was collected.
Voices rarely rise above a murmur as experts analyse data, while two large screens on a wall link the room, where the air is filtered, to the situation outside and Tepco's headquarters in Tokyo.
They can also interact with a resident group of postdocs and scientists on sabbaticals, as well as experts in data mining.
FdD as expert on meteorological data contributed to the discussion of results and draft of the manuscript.
If low resolution data are all that are available then other options, such as expert opinion, or other data, such as activity use information could be used instead.
As an expert of data protection and IT law Andreas' experience covers the whole range of IT law – including outsourcing, licensing, data protection, distribution as well as social media, e-commerce and website compliance.
LS and TP designed the study, performed the statistical analysis, and wrote the manuscript; LD designed the study and participated in the manuscript writing and in the interpretation of results; ZB and OM participated in the statistical analysis; JT, TB, BM, RV, JP, and JF validated input data as expert oncologists and participated in the interpretation of results and reviewed the manuscript.
In many real-world areas, such as e.g., nuclear engineering, quantitative historical failure data are unavailable or become inadequate and only qualitative data such as expert opinions, which are described in linguistic terms, can be collected and then used to assess system reliability.
We developed our approach in conjunction with colleagues from physical education with experience in soccer analysis, as well as experts on soccer data extraction.
The FBI arrested a teenager who admitted making a copycat version of the Blaster Internet worm, even as experts combed over data in the hunt for the creator of the virus that devastated computers all over the world.
In such circumstances, the quality of the studies underlying the data such as expert opinion that considered case reports and reasoning from first principles determined the placement of the conditions into particular categories.
