The defined NTSI is, therefore, an objective measure of the urban transport sustainability, whereas proposed indexes are subjective measures dependent by weights provided by an experts sample.
These require the involvement of an experts sample, coming from several scientific areas, in order to determine weights or rankings related to TPIs and criteria of the hierarchy structure in the decision process, through pair-wise comparisons.
The problem is more complex, since, two different policy packages can have some common policies and these can modify common indicators; thus choosing among an high number of indicators can produce high uncertainty on weights and these depend on the experts sample.
To probe the planet's creation, experts sampled extraterrestrial material that happens to land on Earth — ancient meteorites.
After discussing the traditional Delphi approach and its dissensus based derivatives, the author opens the case for a dissensus Delphi based explorative research tool with special consideration of the Delphi aim, the expert sample and the Delphi design.
This research is trying to measure people's acceptance, to live in or deal with these buildings, whom had no previous experience, using the photo-questionnaire survey and interviews with a purposive expert sample (n = 164) at Egypt and Japan.
This study expands our understanding of design practitioners' cognitive processes by exploring the development of innovative solutions for transactional problems using a DbA approach, via a semantic-word-based ideation method, on a relatively large expert sample size (n = 73) of transactional domain experts.
Additionally, our expert sample was relatively small (n = 10), racially homogeneous, and dominated by men.
The expert sample consists of four vocational educational training (VET) school teachers and five trainers from small (<50 employees: n = 1), medium (51 250 employees: n = 1), large (251 1000 employees: n = 1), and very large (>1000 employees: n = 2) enterprises.
In the expert sample, six participants were of the rank of course coordinator, lecturer, or assistant professor; two were of the rank of associate professor; and two were of the rank of full professor.
The size of the expert sample corresponds to the expert samples used in behavioral research on expertise [31], [38], [74] [76] and is larger than the few neuroimagining studies involving chess experts [71], [77] [78].
