Though the E.P.A. has emphasized the importance of openness and public involvement in the study, internal e-mails show agency officials expressing concern about the reaction if the public were to learn of the narrowing scope of the study.
The limited sample was a result of the limited budget; additionally, the narrow scope of this study was meant to be the basis upon which a much wider and representative assessment would follow.
Given the narrow scope of this study (to test the relationship between PEI and outcome preference/outcome prediction) we developed a list of possible consultation outcomes, using medical and nursing clinicians to identify and classify common outcome types.
To narrow down the scope of study and judge the most significant candidates, the intersection of signal transduction and regulation of actin cytoskeleton and pathway in cancer was selected for follow-up study.
To achieve an analysis with significant results, we first narrowed the scope of our study in order to prevent making farfetched assumptions.
Although these issues are difficult to avoid, the relatively narrow scope of the text on studying viral gene expression will leave a number of authors rather dissatisfied.
To address these issues, the results of our study could be used to develop hypotheses or research questions for further studies as well as to narrow the scope of quantitative studies on the impacts of 5S implementation in such settings.
Some studies that addressed a narrow scope of service delivery or a niche policy area were excluded from our analysis.
The Senate investigators could, of course, defend themselves against charges of an incomplete study by pointing out the narrow scope of their investigation: The panel has jurisdiction over the intelligence community, but not over the White House.
A narrow scope of pooling may be needed when the results from a limited set of studies are aggregated and integrated for reuse in an ancillary study (Steps 5 7 of the ancillary study workflow).
In all of that work, he sought to expand the often narrow scope of academic inquiry.
