Shale formations, sedimentary rock from which natural gas and oil can be extracted through a technique called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, have been at the center of many energy deals in recent months, despite scrutiny of the method by politicians and environmental activists.
Further validation and scrutiny of the method will be required to assess its potential to be extended to other hospital specialties in the UK and also internationally to other health systems that have comparable national databases of patient-safety incidents.
It's the entire process of scientific enquiry, including the collection and processing of data, scrutiny of the methods used in the analysis, questioning of assumptions, and discussion of alternative interpretations.
Scrutiny of the methods and results of epidemiologic research is often intense and sometimes adversarial given its critical contribution to public health, the vested interests involved (particularly for occupational and environmental causes of disease), and media attention.
Groopman wrote about recent scrutiny of the debriefing method and considered other approaches being advocated for helping survivors of traumatic events.
This year is the first time for more than a century that the electoral college vote has gone against the popular vote, provoking scrutiny of the indirect method of electing presidents laid down in the 18th century.
However, including data from published abstracts preclude scrutiny of the detailed methods, analyses and thus raises questions on the quality of the results.
This is indeed an important issue for public scrutiny, but the method of wrapping up a half-truth in a lab coat and presenting it as an evidence-based review of the literature is as insidious as a PR company commissioning an academic researcher to find a predetermined outcome.
PARIS -- Undeterred by a controlling family seemingly united against him and regulatory scrutiny of his methods, the fashion magnate Bernard Arnault has added to his holding in the luxury icon Herm International.
However, what is required, he said, is not greater scrutiny of psychiatric methods but greater outside regulation of the Church — the sort of monitoring that governs teachers, social workers, doctors, day-care providers, and child psychologists and which the Church has historically resisted.
However, what is required, he said, is not greater scrutiny of psychiatric methods but greater outside regulation of the Church the sort of monitoring that governs teachers, social workers, doctors, day-care providers, and child psychologists and which the Church has historically resisted.
