Data were hand-collected from the companies' consolidated annual financial statements including individual auditors' names, dates of signature, and fees paid.
In addition, data were hand-collected from the company reports of the enterprises under review, including information on the fees paid to the auditor appointed to undertake the final audit under Section 314 (1) no. 9 of the HGB, together with the names of the auditors signing the audit opinion and the date of the opinion.
Data were hand-copied from the register onto data collection forms from the following fields: full name, age, gender, address, cause of injury, treatment and discharge (admission or home) for all patients who attended to the emergency department with injuries between 1 January 2010 and 31 December 2010.
Data were hand-coded and reviewed separately by two investigators (MN and CP) to identify major concepts and emerging themes.
Qualitative prisoner data were hand-coded by the authors, who conducted a content analysis to identify key themes corresponding to the interview guide, as well as emergent topics.
The data were hand-clustered by polygon-cutting in 2-dimensional projections of the parameter space using Xclust (Matt Wilson, MIT).
Some interview data were hand-written and others audio-recorded depending on the choice and consent of interviewees and degrees of confidentiality (sometimes other family members, carers or friends were present, meaning recording was inappropriate).
It should be noted that from the literature, E. coli is thought to have a bi-modal distribution around the previous direction (Berg and Brown 1972), the validity of this is hard to confirm as previous data were hand-annotated, and it is challenging to specify the state of the bacterium when diffusion effects are also in place.
That data is handed to Microsoft's Azure cloud, where it's analysed for reports and to send alerts about its care.
