In particular, we draw from philosophy of technology, history of technology, and design methodology, to see what classifications can be made.
If instead we found evidence of positive impacts for this group, we could extend the methodology to see if the same approach produced positive evidence for other groups.
Although not influencing the other results presented here, it was also possible to use the same methodology to see which causes of death might be related to a 'healthy-pregnancy' effect, by being under-represented among the PRD.
Also it is actually uncommon in the survey methodology literature to see surveys conducted across multiple physician specialties.
Given the lack of a gold standard, the first subjective validation of the methodology was to see whether the resulting sectoral societal qualities were in keeping with the annual assessments of the Executive Board (supported by the LUMC central science committee) and the latest (2006) external visitation on the departments involved.
Qualitative research methodologies were employed to see the impact of learning design on knowledge transfer of students when similar technologies are used at the same grade level but the learning designs are different.
These small RNA clusters were then analysed using the methodology described previously to see whether the small RNAs within these clusters distributed in a phased pattern, which was determined by a phase score[ 42].
"We wanted to keep it foremost an atlas, not a field guide," said Jane O'Donnell, the project coordinator and an entomologist at the University of Connecticut, "so that 10 years from now, or a 100 years from now, this methodology can be used to see if there have been any changes.
As a matter of methodology it is preferable to see if some concept can be defined in non-normative terms and only if that fails to capture the relevant phenomena to accept a normative definition.
In order to see such methodologies used more widely in drug development, multidisciplinary efforts need to be initiated, new modelling and simulation tools developed, and sound modelling and simulation practice documents need to be adopted.
