With federal funding, the participating firms undertook pilot programs, some of which led to the incorporation of commercial lean manufacturing practices in the manufacture of defense products.
The European Union requires all E.U. member states to undertake pilot studies of fish population tracing tools by 2013.
We also undertook pilot searches of Web of Science, ERIC and PsychInfo but they did not yield any additional articles.
We also included descriptions of methods that were currently being developed in this field, provided they had undertaken pilot studies and had completed one data collection exercise.
The remainder generally specified the target population, had clear aims and concepts but either did not involve the target population in the development nor undertook pilot work.
Wagner et al. undertook pilot testing of an electronic incident reporting system in US RACFs and identified lack of clarity of reported data and variation in incident documentation procedures as barriers to reliable and efficient incident reporting [ 16].
Several programmes have undertaken pilot studies for large-scale mouse phenotyping; these include the European EUMODIC programme (www.eumodic.org), the Mouse Genetics Project MGPP) at the Sanger Institute (www.sanger.ac.uk/resources/mouse), KOMP312 at UC Davis (www.kompphenotype.org) and the German Mouse Clinic (GMC; www.mouseclinic.de).
C.T., K.R.M., N.F., W.M., K.W., P.S., A.M.J., and C.H.M. designed the Natsal-3 questionnaire, applied for ethics approval, and undertook piloting of the questionnaire.
Although some DCEs have been undertaken without undertaking a pilot exercise first, the benefits of initial piloting and analysis of pilot data econometrically are considerable.
First we will recruit participants to the REFORM cohort and while this is being assembled, we will invite a selection of eligible participants from the site undertaking the pilot phase to take part in a REFORM pilot study.
