DHPD and VD: data collection, contribution to the writing of the paper.
Second, it is conceivable that a false-positive (type I error) occurred in the PsV arm of the study performed by Nair et al. Although this is a well-powered study, its samples are drawn from multiple populations (USA, Canada, Germany and France) and collections (contributions from nine research groups) that may well lead to population stratification and confound results.
The data collection included contributions of stakeholders from public and private sector, as well as academia and civil society.
We believe that we have assembled an excellent collection of contributions, which covers many pertinent aspects of the PHY/MAC/link layer protocol design and reveals to the public innovative mechanisms and analysis tools.
A natural candidate is the institution in charge of managing the national pension system which should already be handling tasks such as: identification, registration, collection of contributions, record keeping, authentication, enforcement, payment of benefits, and management of funds.
Countries would need to rely on current pension institutions to manage the unemployment benefit system, in order to avoid duplicating standard business process – from registration and collection of contributions to the payments of benefits.
Out of the seven papers selected for publication in this Topical Collection, five contributions discuss the issue of business Foresight; whereas three papers propose methodological solutions and underline technology-related outcomes, developed and tested within Foresight projects commissioned by public entities.
This approach was successfully adopted in the case of Weather-it missions; weather experts were recruited from weather and science engagement organisations, joined the nQuire-it platform, and evaluated the content, methods of data collection, and contributions provided by less expert members.
