It emerged in December that the authorities in the United States had recommended withholding from general publication the detailed results and methods of the study, as well as those of a second one led by Yoshihiro Kawaoka, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (This also created transmissible strains, albeit less virulent ones.) Both studies had received grants from America's National Institutes of Health (NIH).
ECONOMIST: The saga over research into bird flu reaches a climax
Organizations should send a balanced message through their ranks about the business results they are driving for and the acceptable methods by which these results are obtained.
FORBES: Ethics in Leadership: The 8 Rules to Prevent Misuse of Corporate Power
While there are a variety of methods and data sources, the results consistently point to significant negative effects of taxes on economic growth even after controlling for various other factors such as government spending, business cycle conditions, and monetary policy.
FORBES: Academics Have Spoken, And Obamanomics Is The Path To Slow Growth
Human brains (1.4kg and 100 billion neurons) will come later, when all the wrinkles have been ironed out in rodents, and proper methods devised to analyse the results.
This deep understanding enables reliable audience matching and content discovery methods that ultimately provides the user with timely and appropriate results.
Courts have previously rejected patents on diagnostic methods that involve testing a patient and then running the results through an algorithm to come up with a diagnosis.
Last January, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales launched a search engine called Wikia Search, a purported "Google-killer" that aimed to edit and refine search results with the same methods that have made Wikipedia a Web phenomenon--the contributions of thousands of volunteers.
The UNESCO Chair in Gender Research, Professor Sylvia Walby made headlines in national newspapers last month with new research showing that current methods and metrics used to measure and record rates of domestic violence against women in the UK are producing misleading results.
The imaging methods turn out to be complicated to perform and can produce murky results that are difficult to interpret.
If the results are in line with their own beliefs and preconceptions, its methods and validity are much less likely to be called stupid.
FORBES: 'Can't Believe It' (We Deny Research Findings That Defy Our Beliefs)
"The plan sets out ambitious timetables and clear benchmarks to measure progress and practical methods for achieving results, " he said.
And the over-riding doubt is the thinking behind a policy which results in tickets being sold (by methods too convoluted and arcane to detail here) to people who either do not care to or do not bother to watch the tennis, while outside the ground the queues of genuine fans accumulate patiently.
The publication of their results is a call for help to pick holes in their methods, and save physics as we now know it.
Exams produce nice clear results, which can give useful clues about the performance of pupils, schools, teachers, methods and every other variable in the system.
Over time, however, he grew disappointed with the dismal results achieved using traditional methods to treat the symptoms, such as rest, heat pads, physical therapy and surgery.
FORBES: How America's Best Pain Doctor - John Sarno - Took On The Medical Establishment and Won
应用推荐