It takes courage to remain exploratory.
Though the regional results in our study remain exploratory due to our limited sample size, the observation of age-related differences concentrated exclusively in bilateral auditory areas further suggests task specificity underlying the age-related effects.
However, it should be noted that the themes presented in this paper are only partial views, and the findings therefore remain exploratory in nature.
The clinical application of NOTES thus has still remained in "exploratory" phase in limited advanced institutions, and various problems including medical, technical, ethical, and economical issues remain unsolved [3, 7, 8].
Unfortunately, the same model that has been so successful in allowing large volumes of resources to have been discovered now effectively prevents O&G players from carrying out exploratory activities over much of the remaining prospective exploratory areas of the world.
This is a sub-group analysis of a large multi-center study and our results remain purely exploratory.
It provided comparative data to identify health priorities and facilitate more effective and efficient resource allocation, although the study remained 'exploratory' due to concerns about potential inaccuracies in the available data, with the quality of data sources ranging " from 'excellent' in disease surveillance systems to 'reasonable' for the extrapolation method of national averages" [ 23].
In the final ANCOVA model we found all variables that were significant in the "Full" exploratory model remained so.
We must accept that there are some uncertainties that remain when both exploratory and confirmatory trials are designed.
Hispanic race/ethnicity did not remain in this exploratory model.
While qualitative methods remain useful in exploratory research and hypothesis generation, their results when taken in isolation are of limited value in making more general claims.
