Even Stephen A. Smith, who has on many occasions discussed controversial topics, including race, declined to involve himself in what was a conversation with no merit.
Further investigation of this topic would thus need to involve a closer look at the other factors that affect herd fertility beyond disease management strategies and thorough cost-benefit analysis of the effects of keeping sick animals in herds.
This stage, which includes the identification of relevant issues, dimensions, measures and indicators related to the topic selected, appears crucial to involve patients because it enables an optimizing of their influence and impact on the entire research initiative [ 4, 5, 29, 30].
Immigration policy reform may be old news to some, but as no new federal legislation has been passed, it continues to be a relevant topic to those involved in the agricultural industry.
There continues to be some controversy around the holiday, as culturally Indians still consider love and marriage to be topics that involve the whole family, not just the couple themselves, and public displays of affection are frowned upon in many places.
A Delphi study was accomplished on the topic "what is needed to implement the information society within healthcare? and which research topics should be given higher priority than other topics to achieve the desired evolution?", involving 29 international experts.
In the absence of such a gold standard, it has been recommended that any tools used to measure study quality should be as specific as possible to the given topic, and involve a simple checklist as opposed to a scale or score [ 14].
The theme extends to consider notions of reconciliation, cooperation and other topics that involve the "uniting" of disparate "states".
As a second topic which was intended to explicitly involve issues likely to interact with cultural background and language use, we chose to assess questions on self-reported acculturation level, designed for Latinos [ 10, 34- 38].
Weekly Support Group sessions focus on specific pre-designated topics and involve open group discussions about subjects' experiences with, or reaction to, the topic.
