We feel that the peer review is an important control of the quality of scientific research and that findings of importance should be scrutinized by external reviewers with respect to material selection, statistical methods, and the soundness of conclusions.
X-ray methods for assessing the soundness of steel castings were introduced in the U.S.S.R. in the 1920s, and magnetic crack-detection methods followed in the 1930s.
His methods are upheld, the soundness of his approach tried, tested and proved.
Non-positivist researchers employ other methods to ensure the soundness of their findings; for example, see Lincoln and Guba.
Ethical review should consider soundness of the methods, including whether the methods are sufficiently rigorous to meet the goals and scope of the project and minimize invalid inferences.
For a wide class of cognitive projects examples of these presuppositions include: normal and proper functioning of the relevant cognitive faculties, the reliability of utilised instruments, the obtaining of the circumstances congenial to the proposed method of investigation, the soundness of relevant principles of inference utilised in developing and collating one's results, and so on.
Relevance of study question; Appropriateness of qualitative method; Transparency of procedures; Soundness of interpretive approach.
These standards are known by the acronym RATS, which stands for: Relevance of study question; Appropriateness of qualitative method; Transparency of procedures; Soundness of interpretive approach.
This manuscript then goes through the usual peer review process, and is assessed on criteria such as the soundness of the methods and analysis, and overall plausibility of the stated hypotheses.
Those problems, and not a fundamental rethinking of the soundness of industry methods and accounting, have done the most to make the trading companies less freewheeling in their reporting of profits, argues John C. Cassidy, a senior power analyst with Moody's Investors Service.
