INTRODUCTION This paper, the eighth in the series, will address the ninth stage of a research project suggested in the first paper. The ten suggested stages are: 1. The initial idea (asking a research question). 2. Searching the literature. 3. Refining the research question. 4. Planning the study. 5. Writing a protocol. 6. Obtaining ethics approval and funding. 7. Piloting the project a...

Digital evidence is now common in legal cases, but the understanding of the legal fraternity as to how far conventional ideas of evidence can be extended into the digital domain lags behind. Evidence determines the truth of an issue but its weight is subject to examination and verification through existing forms of legal argument. There is a need for a practical ‘roadmap’ that can guide the leg...

When multiple geo-spatial datasets are integrated, the process should be done in several stages. In each stage two datasets are fused to one. Since different sequences may lead to different results, it is important to select a sequence that would lead to the required results. Two approaches, namely the sequential and hierarchical, for selecting the sequence are presented, and their results are ...

Characterizing the spatial extent of epidemics at the outbreak stage is key to controlling the evolution of the disease. At the outbreak, the number of infected individuals is typically small, and therefore, fluctuations around their average are important: then, it is commonly assumed that the susceptible-infected-recovered mechanism can be described by a stochastic birth-death process of Galto...

An analytic means to evaluate the error sensitivity of a personal audio system is proposed. The personal audio system, which focuses acoustic energy into a zone of interest using multiple loudspeakers, is subject to various errors when implemented. The performance of a personal audio system, defined as an energy ratio between the zone of interest and the rest, is inevitably influenced by errors...

A two-stage statistical procedure based on Dunnett's multiple comparison procedures with a control has been developed for detecting interassay carryover biases on the Abbott AxSYM(TM) System, a random- and continuous-access immunoanalyzer. With this procedure, every potential source of interassay carryover can be tested and estimated. In minimizing required sample sizes, the first stage is used...

On completion of the initial stages of the programme, as outlined last month, the next stage is the actual mediation itself, or the party meeting stage. This usually begins at 9.30 am in the morning, with a brief outline of the mediator’s own background in medical malpractice litigation, as well as any previous legal experience in general; all of which assures the parties to the mediation that ...

Recent measurements are suggesting that we live in a flat Universe and that its present accelerating stage is driven by a dark energy component whose equation of state may evolve in time. Assuming two different parameterizations for the function ω(z), we constrain their free parameters from a joint analysis involving measurements from X-Ray luminosity of galaxy clusters and SNe type Ia data.

The role of parents-in-law according to Erik Erikson’s theory, has been analyzed in this paper. Erikson claims that a man develops throughout his whole life, solving subsequently appearing crises. The proper solution of these crises enables the achievement of integration. The results of research, carried out by Menelaos Apostolou, regarding the influence of parents on the choice of a son or dau...

pology hypotheses. The output of this stage is in the form of histograms and n-tuples. Finally the display and fit stage displays statistical data accumulated in the preceding stages in the form of histograms, scatter plots, etc. Fitting the data to known functions is also done in this stage. The remainder of this paper will consider what analysis tools are available today, and what one might e...