From these institutes, the email address and contact address of (mostly) the head of the institutes were gathered.
Advertisements for the course were posted on the website of SJRI and communicated to Indian and South Asian academic organizations, research groups, hospitals and public health institutes by email, posters and flyers.
The institute said: "The emails reveal doubts as to the reliability of some of the [temperature] reconstructions and raise questions as to the way in which they have been represented".
For larger institutes of pathology, the email was sent to head physicians with the request to send it also to their medical employees.
The participants from the four mini-institutes were contacted by email in the Fall of 2011 and asked to respond to an online questionnaire on their participation in STAR, the impact it had on their teaching practices, and the perceived impact on their students.
Arcady Mushegian, Stowers Institute, Kansas City, United States Email: ARM@Stowers-Institute.org Good: 1. Part 2: the main idea appears to be to trade a more complex model for a larger training set.
William Bauer, Managing Director of Royce Leather Gifts, minimizes off-hour email overload by instituting a "blackout mode from half an hour before employees' shifts start until half an hour after they leave for the day".
But a spokeswoman for the institute, Mika Ono, noted in an email that "we were not involved with the initial economic impact study".
In the Queen's speech this autumn Gordon Brown's government will announce a scheme to institute a database of every telephone call, email, and act of online usage by every resident of the UK.
"The prevailing wisdom was that gargantuan 30-40 meter diameter telescopes of the future will be required to collect enough signal to make this kind of map," Dr. Khee-Gan Lee, a postdoctoral researcher at the institute, told The Huffington Post in an email.
