Officers identified prisoners who were then provided by researchers with a verbal explanation of the research (in English or French, and translated into Bemba, Nyanja, or Tonga if necessary), asked if they were willing to participate, and offered anonymity.
Of 438 approached, 15 refused at this point, and 170/423 (41%) had children in the target age range, agreed to participate and offered gateway consent to approach their partner and the adolescent if the latter had been selected as the target child.
For an activity of this type to be successful it is important that the research community participate and offer critical input.
The design advances quickly because all the information is open source, and anyone can participate and offer improvements.
The Israeli government perceived the threat to its propaganda line even before the show was aired and called the top brass at CBS to demand that its representative Ambassador Michael Oren be invited to participate, and offer the government's rebuttal.
One hospital located in Beijing was finally selected, as the hospital met the case selection criteria and the management also showed their willingness to participate and offer a context for the study.
For example, "the wound nurse would like all clients pre-assessed as they arrive," or "there is a men's anger management group today and we are welcome to participate and offer health checks".
The integrated approach of the project has fostered collegial learning activities among the participating teachers and offered them opportunities for continued renewal and professional development of teacher competencies in astronomy and space science.
A total of 9,203 students aged 12 21 years present in the selected classes were invited to participate and were offered a toothbrush for their participation.
All sixth-grade students were invited to participate and were offered a 50 U.S.D. incentive for data collection.
For each FG, we invited at least twice the number of individuals to participate as needed in anticipation that many of those invited would not participate, and we offered them two or three time slots as options.
