Anyone just going through the motions at work will tend to answer the questions in as few words as possible and leave you without an opening to probe further.
However, studies have found that getting older adults to participate in research is a challenge because they tend to be less trusting and may be less open to others probing into their lifestyle.
Ultimately, our simulator will open opportunities to probe landscapes of clinical parameters, and guide device design and treatment planning in cardiac diseases such as stenosis, regurgitation, or prolapse of the aortic, pulmonary, tricuspid, or mitral valve.
The interviews were moderated by a social scientist (ST), an experienced facilitator, who use open questioning to probe pertinent issues further.
Providing open access to "probe compounds" with attractive features such as potency, selectivity, cellular permeability, and ideally also suitable physicochemical properties to enable in vivo studies is an increasingly attractive concept for the pharmaceutical industry.
This year is shaping up to be busy too, as new fronts are opened up to probe, for instance, the hiring by banks of "princelings" (relatives of important Chinese officials).Though America remains the toughest enforcer, in the past few years other countries have started to flex their muscles (see chart 2).
By this point, the makers of Skyfall have taken the bold decision to open Bond up – to probe at the character's back-story and raise a toast to his relationship with M. Yet this touchy-feely indulgence proves to be a mistake, in that it paves the path to soft-headedness, nostalgia and (worst of all) jokey banter with Bond's bearded old retainer.
Xan Brooks of The Guardian, in an otherwise positive review, criticised the "touchy-feely indulgence" of "the bold decision to open Bond up – to probe at the character's back-story and raise a toast to his relationship with M".
Because of the absence of a common language for programmatic assessment and uncertainty about criteria, we used an exploratory, open, qualitative method to probe the views and ideas of experts in assessment (in medical education).
In the first stage, moderators explained the purpose of the interview and posed open-ended questions to probe participants' prior experiences with initiating RRT [ 22].
