Consultation with experts has been identified as a useful strategy for setting the boundaries and context of an evidence map [ 4, 5].
Three publications have outlined methods for mapping or scoping a content area [ 3- 5], which have included three core tasks: 1. Setting the boundaries and context of the topic area in question; 2. Searching for and selection of relevant studies; and 3. Reporting on yield and study characteristics.
The GEM evidence mapping method involved three core tasks: 1. Setting the boundaries and context of the map: Definitions for the fields of TBI and SCI were clarified, the prehospital, acute inhospital and rehabilitation phases of care were delineated and relevant stakeholders (patients, carers, clinicians, researchers and policymakers) who could contribute to the mapping were identified.
Preliminary calculations performed by the GEM Initiative, based on time spent to develop detailed search strategies, search databases and select studies, indicate a resource cost of 1.5 minutes for each citation reviewed [ 20], plus the costs of setting the boundaries and context of the map and reporting on yield and study characteristics.
Eco-epidemiology is grounded in the principle of ecologism, which seeks to understand phenomena in relation to the boundaries of context rather than seeking universal explanations that may be context-free [ 30].
Trial-based designs may under-recognise the weak boundaries separating context and intervention, and the multiple interactions that take place between them.
Finally, the boundaries between context, mechanisms and outcomes could be perceived as clear in theory, but they become blurred in practice.
In particular, a link between the CPS as an on-line marker for utterance segmentation in context-free (i.e. single sentences → CPS at major prosodic boundaries) vs. context-bound (i.e. dialogs → CPS to focus/accent positions) speech processing is to be drawn.
The boundary between context of discovery (the de facto thinking processes) and context of justification (the de jure defense of the correctness of these thoughts) was now understood to determine the scope of philosophy of science.
This paper presents structural re-analysis in a boundary element context, providing information on a suitable object-oriented structure, and giving details on the operations required when processing various types of re-analysis.
