It has been described as the first work to take a rigorous, procedurally sound sociological look at sex, rather than a biological or psychological one.
All the mawkish neo-Romantic symphonic music that has been churned out by timid composers in recent years should make Mr. Boulez's rigorous music sound newly visceral and scintillating.
"Rigorous, scientifically sound studies such as this are critical to setting rational and effective policy".
The process of setting health standards requires rigorous, scientifically sound data that relate to man's interaction with his environment.
Consequently, including holotype specimens in molecular phylogenies would be very suitable to name each cluster recognized as a valid species providing that a rigorous and sound taxonomy is already set up.
Recent literature explores the integration of quantitative and qualitative methods [ 4] and emphasizes the need for rigorous, methodologically sound methods, as well as detailed and transparent reporting on qualitative and quantitative methodology [ 3, 5- 8].
PROMIS is probably the best generic instrument that is currently available to measure HRQoL; it consists of a wide range of generic item banks that have been developed with a rigorous and sound methodology.
While it is true that many of these data sets are relatively simple to obtain and inexpensive coupled with the fact that performing analyses is becoming "easier" with the availability of menu-driven statistical software packages, it remains essential that rigorous, methodologically sound studies are performed.
The way production hardware and software are going, every week there's a new piece of gear on the market that makes it easier to produce professional sounding stuff without going through the rigorous exercise of sound processing it would have required 20 years ago.
The magazine made the process sound rigorous and illuminating.
