Introduction: Focus and objectives of workshop

Introduction: Focus and objectives of workshop

During the past decade, two types of information have accumulated that provide the stimulus for this workshop: pathological and epizootiological data showing that some important food fishes in certain habitats have high prevalences of neoplasms; and analytical chemistry data showing that the edible tissues ofsome food fishes contain known carcinogens and/or cancer promoters in measurable, thoug...

LTRAS Objectives in Focus

The overall objectives of the Long Term Research on Agricultural Systems project (LTRAS) are concisely stated on a sign marking the entrance to the site -"a facility to study sustainability of agricultural systems and their impact on the environment [emphases added]." Most of the current effort at LTRAS is on the first long-term experiment -a 100 year study of annual field crop systems. However...

Chapter 1 – Introduction and objectives

1.1. General Introduction Plesiosaurs are a group of secondarily aquatic diapsid reptiles belonging to the clade Sauropterygia (Carroll, 1988). Diapsids (subclass Diapsida) are a monophyletic group supported by both morphological and molecular data (Lee, 2001) including lizards, snakes, crocodiles and birds, and represent a major sub-group of the amniote vertebrates, i.e. vertebrate organisms w...

Chapter I: Introduction and Objectives

An Introduction to Focus Group Research

A focus group refers to a group of people who share some common characteristics. A researcher gathers these people in the group in order that they share their points of view and interact with each other over a specific issue. Focus group and Interview group are used interchangeably in the scientific literature and both refer to a method of collecting data in qualitative studies. Given the impor...