It would be as unethical to exclude an individual who materially and substantially participated in multiple elements of a study and report as it would be to include those who did not.
In conjunction with internationally recognized standards for authorship, CORR generally limits authorship to five individuals since more than that rarely make substantive contributions to at least three major elements of a study and its report.
The research described here was one element of a larger study, the diabetic renal disease care pathway study, which explored the concept of patient access to quality care i.e. how patients gain access to diabetes and renal services and how services are perceived by patients.
We agree that this is a desirable element of such a study, and would like to pursue this possibility in a future study with larger data sizes.
The intimate physical scenes come as only one element of a deep study of the relationship between the two young women as it grows from young first love into domesticity.
The paper reports on one element of a broader study which set out to investigate issues of choice and decision making in end of life care (EOLC) from the perspective of patients, their family members and HCPs involved in their care.
Focusing on an element of an earlier study on pattern and object recognition by chess experts, the researchers had expected to see parts of the left hemispheres of the experts' brains — which are involved in object recognition — react more quickly than those of the novices when they performed the chess tasks.
The design of the study was formed with Crotty's (1998) four elements of a research study (epistemology, theoretical perspective, methodology, and methods), which laid the groundwork for the methods implemented in this study and guided the actions and perspectives of the researchers.
Woodward, who has here the elements of a devastating study of Washingtonian pettiness, has instead written a book that in many ways exemplifies it.
Mapping all genes with 5'-TOP elements of a recent study in the human genome to our list of LTSM-positive genes resulted in a minor overlap of 52 between the 1399 LTSM-positive and the 1114 TOP-positive genes including 17 RP genes [ 16].
