In 2000, the Medical Research Council (MRC) of the United Kingdom defined a theoretical and methodological framework for the design and evaluation of this type of complex interventions in the clinical context [ 43].
In this regard, the UK Medical Research Council's (MRC) taskforce on health-care services and public health defined a theoretical and methodological framework for the design and evaluation of complex interventions in clinical setting [ 83, 84].
The methodological framework defines the phases to be carried out when applying the method, whilst the conceptual framework is made up of the meta-models used in the method and the transformation processes established between them.
The technological study of the lithic assemblages of Fa-Hien Lena was carried out following the chaîne opératoire concept68,69, a methodological framework that defines the reconstruction of the various processes of flake production from the procurement of raw materials, through the phases of manufacture and utilization until the final discard.
The present work provides a methodological framework by specifying concepts, by defining new constructs and by developing multiple information synthesis methods which must be introduced from the programme's conception.
This "disease signature" approach to cortical morphometry, in which disease effects are mapped across the cortical mantle and then used to define ROIs for hypothesis-driven analyses, may provide a powerful methodological framework for studies of neuropsychiatric diseases.
By applying the proposed methodological framework to three different Mediterranean cultural landscapes, we define the boundaries of social-ecological systems and illustrate how social and ecological sub-systems interact at local scale.
The World Bank, a major REDD+ investor/donor, established a Carbon Fund [29] with a methodological framework that requires emissions from forest degradation to be accounted where 'significant', which is defined as more than 10% of 'forest-related emissions'.
To guarantee the robustness of this research stream and to realise the potential of the welfare mix approach, this theoretical gap must be filled with clearly identified variables that can define the policy field borders and capture the main features of welfare mixes with an effective methodological framework to analyse modern welfare systems, which is what we provide in the following paragraphs.
