The cluster is intended to represent an adequate sample of case studies relative to different capacities and different design approaches that followed one another starting from the seventeenth century.
Recent work has shown that it might be more fruitful to proceed bottom-up, that is by first providing a good sample of case studies before proposing a single encompassing model of mathematical explanation.
The performance of the biomass plant at Cuijk has been studied by Dutch social scientists before, as part of a broader sample of case studies, but these scholars confined themselves to aspects of combined heat power production instead of the broader smart biomass use principle we address in our paper.
Recently, Padey et al. (2013) presented a new methodology to address these issues for the wind electricity pathway, with the elaboration of a framework to develop simplified models able to estimate GHG emissions for a large sample of case studies not restricted to those already available in literature.
First, it is important to choose a representative sample of case studies; many arguments drawn from case studies are based on just one or two wellchosen examples.
Section 3 showcased a sampling of case studies to illustrate the wide range of successful methods and approaches that fall within the broad STS umbrella.
Unconventional monetary tools were only rarely used before the crisis, which means the sample size of case studies is small.
An axisymmetric geometry model was adopted to simulate the CPB sample (see Fig. 10), and the adopted initial values and boundary conditions were the same as those in Case Study 1. Open image in new window Fig. 10 Mesh and geometry of simulated CPB sample for Case Study 2. Figure 11 is a comparison between the predicted results and measured values of CPB strength with different sulphate contents.
The heterogeneity in populations, outcome measures and interventions as well as the small sample sizes and relatively large amount of case studies further complicate the comparability of the findings between studies.
Moreover, the research is also limited by the judgmental sampling of one case study due to the unavailability of extant research in this new field of CSR, so, more case studies need to be done, empirical studies conducted to validate this research.
