Finally, six issues were selected: the Euro crisis, youth debt, manager salaries, public debt, energy supply and retirement provision.
Key informants who were likely to have insider knowledge and insights into the issues were selected purposively based on suggestions made during formative exploratory interviews.
A skewed distribution was expected, with a long right tail, thus, a model recognizing that distribution and less sensitive to right tail issues was selected [ 15].
The topics, which covered medical content, diabetes-related news items, and practical issues, were selected on the basis of our feasibility and usability testing [ 15].
Other acupuncture points depending on additional symptoms reported (eg, headache, other joint pain and psychological issues) were selected at the discretion of the therapist.
In order to provide an overview of health care utilization by women, two health surveillance issues were selected that are important for public policy purposes: access to care and patterns of utilization.
For older patients, Factors related to antihyperglycaemic agents (46% vs. 38%) and Comorbidities and polypharmacy (33% vs. 19%), both including safety-related issues, were selected significantly (p < 0.001) more often by GPs.
Papers appearing in this special issue are selected from over 60 papers.
Papers contained in this special issue are selected from the symposium "Nano and Giga Challenges in Electronics and Photonics" (NGC2009) and 14th Canadian Semiconductor Technology Conference (CSTC2009), which were held as a joint event and hosted by McMaster University (August 10 14, 2009, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada).
The dilemma underlying many ethically challenging issues is selecting the better of two competing moral goods -- or opting for the least bad between two negative choices.
