Secondly, publication status indicates the "maturity" of research, and journal publication often represents the formal end-point of a research study.
Until today, no studies have been available summarizing the activities and results of the field of maturity model research.
Emerged out of software engineering, the application fields have widened and maturity model research is becoming more important.
In recent years, the maturity model research has gained wide acceptance in the area of information systems and many Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) maturity models have been proposed.
Many species of farmed fish exhibit sexual dimorphism in a range of traits of commercial importance, including growth rate or age at maturity, stimulating research to clarify the sex determining system of such fish with the objective of the production of mono-sex stocks for the aquaculture industry.
One drawback to C.D. laddering is that you must keep track of the various certificate maturity dates and research interest rates before rolling your money into a new C.D. "You constantly have a C.D. maturing," said Ken Hoyt, a fee-only financial adviser in Westford, Mass.
One of the signs of maturity in a research program is shown by its beginning to confront itself with some major topics in traditional and mainstream philosophy.
This is in contrast to the clear focus of quantitative SSCM models on the economic-environmental interplay (see, e.g., Brandenburg et al. 2014) and points toward a higher level of maturity in SSCM research that integrates social sustainability aspects into economic-environmental studies.
Given the maturity of the research area and today's scientific fashions, efforts that classify as system biology occupy a prominent place in GIW 2013.
Kappa scores for maturity status of reported research and source of research information used were 0.847 and 0.926, respectively.
