For much of what government does, Deaton says, it is far more rigorous to base decisions on whether they actually improve lives than on some other potentially misleading data.
BFFS offers a systematic methodology as a route towards creation of a more rigorous evidence base.
After this, orthopaedic surgeons will then be able to justify their use of closure method by using a more rigorous evidence base than is currently available.
However, this type of evaluation requires commitment and resources and a more rigorous research base, which has yet to be developed.
Broader concepts, with a more rigorous theoretical base, such as frailty [ 1] and allostatic load [ 5], have been proposed as a better means of assessing the heterogeneity of health status amongst elderly people, but none has yet proved entirely satisfactory [ 6- 9].
Our research provides circumstantial support for programmes encouraging exposure to natural environments in local areas, but longitudinal studies involving the study of patterns of migration and the impact of changes in provision of natural environments will be avenues for creating a more rigorous evidence base.
The German mathematician Moritz Pasch (1843 1930), in his Vorlesungen über neuere Geometrie (1882; "Lectures on the New Geometry"), identified what was wanting: undefined concepts, axioms about those concepts, and more rigorous logic based on those axioms.
Parkside is in the vanguard of some 60 state schools that plan to take advantage of one of the coalition Government's first acts – the lifting of Labour's ban on the use in state schools of the IGCSE, the more rigorous exam based on the former O-level.
Diagram (c) is a scheme of the normal two-step model, and (d) is a more rigorous scheme based on Michaelis-Menten kinetics (Wada and Hattori 1978).
These procedures may be replaced by a more rigorous calculation based on the evaluation of the local sonic velocity with equations of state.
The development and uptake of a standardised intervention model for these programs will help to more rapidly develop a larger and more rigorous evidence-base to improve outcomes for high-risk young people.
