Tilapia is the common name for a group of 40-50 nominal species of cichlid fishes (Order Perciformes) native to Africa and the Middle East.
Similar to the within-group process, responses were analyzed based on the number of nominal groups identifying the concept with high relative rank-ordering.
Three types of nominal groups, including "uni-head", "bi-head" and "multi-head" nominal groups, and their subtypes were identified.
Despite a relatively small number of nominal groups, we reached theoretical saturation, which is when little or no new concepts were arising in subsequent groups.
After dpf 50, concentrations of E2 began to increase in all treatment groups, and exceeded 60% of nominal concentration on dpf 64 (Fig. 1a).
Because this study was part of a larger project [ 19], the number of nominal groups undertaken was dependent on participant time and scope of the project.
In conclusion, the SMCA can offer more exact and precise method to compare structures to assess same or different groups, which requires analyses of nominal features in comparative anatomy.
In these meetings, participants used a slightly modified version of Nominal Group Technique (Dunham 1998; McMillan et al. 2016).
A trained facilitator made sure every participant expressed their ideas and that the rules of nominal group technique were respected.
The benefit of nominal group technique is that all experts have an equal opportunity to participate and influence the decision.
