In linguistic terms, I follow my previous work on South Asia (Fuller 2003, 2007) while for East and Southeast Asia I attempt to chart a middle ground synthesis from among the thinking by Blench (2005, 2008a, 2010a, b), Van Driem (2011a, b) and Sagart (2003, 2008, this volume).
They also tend to include a more limited range of studies: grounded theory synthesis includes grounded theory studies, meta-ethnography (in its original form, as applied by Noblit and Hare) ethnographies.
Calculating the moment and corner frequency of the source events used in strong ground motion synthesis with empirical Green's functions is important for increasing the predictive reliability of strong ground motion.
Cellulosome-producing microbes may therefore be pursuing a middle ground between protein synthesis strictly for selfish vs. communal usage.
This requires a subsequent synthesis, grounded within interpretative, narrative, and descriptive analytical methods [ 40, 45- 47].
A recent review of qualitative syntheses found that nine main approaches were used to synthesise qualitative research including: critical interpretive synthesis, grounded theory synthesis, meta-ethnography, meta-study, thematic synthesis, meta-narrative synthesis, textual narrative synthesis, framework synthesis, and ecological triangulation [ 1].
Others – meta-ethnography, grounded theory, thematic synthesis, meta-study, meta-narrative and critical interpretive synthesis – seek to push beyond the original data to a fresh interpretation of the phenomena under review.
The innovation of our study was to develop a method of meta-ethnography that allowed us to produce a conceptual synthesis grounded in a large number of original studies.
This paper provides a brief synthesis of ground motion analysis procedures within a performance-based design framework, and is a summary of a recent report to which the reader is referred for details.
Both of them seem to have a unique ability to strike a middle ground -- a higher synthesis, really -- between two extremes.
Synthesis of ground substances was found to be high in treated groups.
