During Workshop I and a subsequent consultation round, we identified 24 centers around the globe that collect tissues from endometriosis case and control subjects on a large scale (publication on >100 cases).
Development of a self-administered endometriosis patient questionnaire (EPQ), based on [1] systematic comparison of questionnaires from eight centers that collect data from endometriosis cases (and controls/comparison women) on a medium to large scale (publication on >100 cases); [2] literature evidence; and [3] several global consultation rounds.
Consensus SOPs were based on: 1) systematic comparison of SOPs from 24 global centers collecting tissue samples from women with and without endometriosis on a medium or large scale (publication on >100 cases); 2) literature evidence where available, or consultation with laboratory experts otherwise; and 3) several global consultation rounds.
The Los Angeles based hip-hop collective has been called "polarizing" by the Village Voice, and has to date been written up by large-scale publications like Spin, the Guardian, and even the New Yorker (by Sasha Frere-Jones, no less).
Their aim was to use linocutting, a cheap art form well suited to large-scale publication, to broadcast an explicit, committed political message, close to the line of the Communist party and other anti-Fascist groups.
I didn't work on the yearbook staff at either school, but I like to think that the students who did learned something about the staggering amount of work that goes into putting together a large-scale publication.
However, in existing large-scale publication databases – such as Thomson Reuter's Web of Science (WoS) – metadata is often sparse, especially for older publications.
The initial development of the nonsurgical patient questionnaire was based on questionnaire tools provided by eight centers around the globe that have collected nonsurgical information from endometriosis cases and controls on a large scale (criterion: publication on > 100 cases).
During workshop I and a subsequent consultation round, we identified 18 centers worldwide that collect biologic fluid samples from endometriosis cases and controls on a large scale (criterion: publication on >100 cases); all provided SOPs for sample collection, processing, and storage.
This is especially important for geospatial datasets that form the backbone of large scale open data publication efforts in many sectors of the economy (e.g., the public sector, the Earth Observation sector).
There have been several publications of large scale studies with long-term follow up addressing the role of physical activity in the management of breast cancer.
