The Guardian Sustainable Index represents the first piece of research from a panel of over 3,000 readers of the Guardian and Observer who have an interest in environmental issues.
YouGov has a registered panel of over 3.3 million people worldwide, including over 350 000 British adults, chosen on the basis that their sociodemographic characteristics represent the British population.
This year's shortlist of seven titles was selected from a record 211 entries by a panel of over 100 members of the public, including reading groups from across the country.
For years the list - voted for by a worldwide panel of over 800 chefs, restaurateurs and critics, including this one; slagged off by those not invited to take part - had been dominated by huge three-Michelin-star names like Pierre Gagnaire and Alain Ducasse, Alain Passard and Thomas Keller.
The Brit Awards are voted for by a panel of over 1,000 industry experts and music enthusiasts from managers, agents, publishers, journalists and people who work for record labels.
The data comes from its panel of over 4.4 million online shoppers, whose spending is tracked by extracting details from their hundreds of millions of digital receipts.
Over the past year, our panel of over 20 experts has studied the biology of breast cancer development – including known risk factors and other biological events that precede development of a tumor.
A subset were extensively validated by screening a panel of over 230 clinical samples, revealing biomarkers that display clinical sensitivity and specificity up to 90 % and 96, respectively.
This approach proved to be both efficient and effective, in that global profiling of a small number of tissue samples identified several novel epigenetic targets that were extensively validated within a panel of over 230 clinical samples.
The approach efficiently identified a large collection of novel differentially DNA methylated loci (∼200), a subset of which was independently validated across a panel of over 230 clinical samples.
