Apart from classifying the reported techniques, it also performs a quantitative comparison among them.
Wisneski and lead author Wilhelm Hofmann spent weeks classifying the reported acts according to six moral principles identified by Haidt and his colleagues: care for others, fairness, liberty, loyalty, authority, and sanctity.
A sea and an ocean away, there was the even more appalling finding that New Orleans police didn't even bother to investigate hundreds of rape cases, or simply classified the reported sexual assaults as "noncriminal" and did no investigation.
An independent adjudication committee classified the reported serious cardio- and cerebro-vascular (CCV) events.
SMC provisionally classifies the reported variants based on the degree to which these predicted effects are expected to decrease spliceosomal affinity, and consequently splicing.
We classified the reported methods of application of vector control insecticides as residual spraying, space spraying, treatment of nets, and larviciding (WHO 2006).
Supervisors "should assume that classification decisions are made in good faith and should afford a 'safe harbor' for classifiers who adhere to proper risk management practices and, when unsure, decide not to classify," the report says.
In September 2009, shortly after the ProPublica and New York Times Magazine report, Cannizzaro said he asked Minyard "to classify the deaths reported in" the article.
However, it is impossible to perfectly classify the few reported attackers, since attacks employed different behaviors in reaction to the defensive strategies exhibited by the crowd.
A model will be used to classify the outcomes reported in each included paper (see figure 1).
