When thinking about setting up a small-scale recycling enterprise, it is advisable to first carry out a survey to ascertain the types of plastics available for collection, the type of plastics used by manufacturers (who will be willing to buy the reclaimed material) and the economic viability of collection.
The WHO conducted a systematic review of HIV interventions in the developing world in order to ascertain the types of intervention that should be rolled out.
It will also be important to ascertain what types of online activities have benefits as well as the nature of these benefits (e.g., the impact of social support on NSSI behaviour).
The study aimed to ascertain the types of antibiotics and the corresponding conditions seen in primary care and whether general practitioners (GPs) felt that an antibiotic was necessary at the time of consultation.
We could not ascertain the types of treatment offered beyond pharmacological interventions during the study and the number of psychotherapy or combined-therapy visits, if any, prior to our study.
As has been noted, [c]urrently, little information is available to ascertain what types of research are actually being undertaken in developing countries, how much work is being done, the benefits that studies presently offer communities, and whether research addresses the needs of developing countries, developed countries, or both [ 15].
Lifetime recall of previous foot and ankle injury was ascertained on standardised personal interview (yes/no response to the question 'Have you ever injured your feet or ankles?', with follow-up questions to ascertain type, anatomical location and duration of time since injury, analysed in right feet only).
"I am still trying to ascertain what type of documents they were," Mr. Sawyer said yesterday afternoon.
In fact, he says, he only writes because, to his chagrin, 'I never got an instrument under control.' Had he succeeded it is hard to ascertain what type of music the 44-year-old would have made.
