As shown in Table 5, there were no systematic differences between mail and phone survey modes for the internal consistency Cronbach alpha values.
Depending on the objective of the search, all three strategies are suitable for specific purposes such as the use of sensitive strategies in systematic reviews or e-mail alerts.
News articles, blog posts and e-mails often lack a systematic reference list that could be used to make a citation index.
9 A Cochrane systematic review of eight studies found that mailing of print summaries improved compliance with care delivery recommendations.
And it would prohibit, when terrorism is not suspected, systematic searches of the contents of Americans' international e-mails and text messages that are "about" a target rather than to or from that person.
An introductory text about the purpose of the survey and the background of the method of systematic review was included in the body of the e-mail.
Finally, the intervention mainly comprised mail- and telephone-based interactions and did not include systematic, intensive, real-time interactions of a clinical or advisory nature by telephone, through a website, or face-to-face visits.
"These individuals are self motivated, have the ability to withstand hardship, probably have a great eye and photographic memory," writes Robert Scotland, a reader in systematic botany at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, in an e-mail.
"In a party that supposedly stands for life, it was tragic to see the carefully orchestrated and systematic attack on a fellow Republican," Mr. Huckabee wrote in an e-mail to supporters.
But its behaviour is not in the same class as Microsoft's systematic campaign against the Netscape browser in the late 1990s: there are no e-mails talking about "cutting off" competitors' "air supply".
