Sampling Strategy Clause Examples

Sampling Strategy. Poway Location: Three (3) days onsite Fifteen (15) personal samples for lead, five (5) each day, plus one (1) field blank each day

Sampling Strategy. I intended to send the questionnaire to manufacturing businesses in both the UK and Germany. Additionally, I conducted a small-scale pilot in other European countries to test the understandability and user-friendliness of the questionnaire. For this purpose, I constituted the sampling frame from different sources (▇▇▇▇ and Barnbeck, 2017).

Sampling Strategy. It is crucial for the sampling strategy to reflect the ontology and study design and be relevant to the research question (▇▇▇▇▇, 2002; ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, 2013). The sample which had the characteristics of the populations of interest and was relevant to the ontological and epistemological positions of the study was therefore selected in order to generate meaningful data to address the research question (▇▇▇▇▇, 2002; ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, 2013). For example all the service user participants had acute mental health conditions which reflected the service user population on acute mental health wards; the carer participants were all the designated carers for the service users and provided substantial care to the services when in the community whilst all the RNs and HCAs had an experience of working on the acute mental health settings. The sample was consistent with the theoretical or purposive sample, which involves the selection of groups or criteria for investigation based on their relevance to the research question and the theoretical position being developed (▇▇▇▇▇, 2002). The sample included adult service users receiving care on the acute ▇▇▇▇, carers defined as relatives, family members or significant others providing substantial care to the service user, RNs and HCAs working on the acute wards from January 2013 to July 2013.

Sampling Strategy. In selecting the AWCs in the first stage of the two-stage clustered sampling procedure, the complete list of AWCs in both the intervention districts was used as the sampling frame. A systematic random sampling technique was adopted to select 31 intervention AWCs in each district, making a total of 62 AWCs in both the intervention districts. Another 31 AWCs were selected in the intermediate area as well. To select AWCs in the control district, the list of AWCs in the two selected blocks was provided and 36 AWCs were selected in each block through a systematic random sampling procedure. Furthermore, stratification took place by intervention and control areas to select AWCs in each stratum. This method of stratification by intervention and control areas reduces the bias associated with clustering around Anganwadi Centers. All eligible children aged 3-3.5 years and 5-5.5 years and their caregivers were selected in the second stage of sampling. Systematic random sampling was employed and resulted in a sample size of 62 AWCs from each intervention and control area. The second stage of sampling resulted in 1248 children between the ages of 5-5.5 years. All eligible children aged 3-3.5 years and 5-5.5 years within the catchment area were covered but the caregivers of children aged 5-5.5 years were the respondents included in this analysis. Therefore, the sample size used in this analysis is 1248.

Sampling Strategy. The sampling strategy is part of the experimental setup and describes when and how samples for the functional genomics analysis are collected. It embraces two main issues, namely, collecting the sample at a time point where the biological response relevant to the biological question is present and ensuring that levels of biomolecules remain unchanged from the moment of sampling. Concerning this first issue, if it is unknown beforehand which phases during the cultivation contain information related to the biological question, the sampling protocol should cover all possibly relevant growth phases and phase transitions (▇▇▇▇▇ et al., 2007). At the same time, practical matters have to be considered as well. For instance, the sampling volumes can limit the number of obtainable samples, or the costs of sample analysis can influence the sampling strategy. In the case of continuous cultures, time issues are of no importance, but due to technical difficulties this fermentation technique is not as commonly applied in fungal research as it is in research involving other microorganisms. Besides, with the application of continuous cultures the approach is quite different, as time is no longer a factor, excluding longitudinal effects (e.g., induction or other perturbations during the fermentation process). In addition, it should be noted that although the process conditions are fixed during continuous cultures, changes in the production organism are frequently observed (▇▇▇▇▇ et al., 1998; ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ et al., 1995), making continuous cultures prone to transitions, albeit of a different kind. The second issue relates to the high turnover of mRNA and metabolites (for proteins this is not so much of an issue), risking the introduction of unwanted changes in RNA or metabolite levels during sample harvesting or work-up. In order to obtain samples that reflect the state of the cell under the environmental conditions at the time of harvesting, rapid sampling (Nasution et al., 2006) and immediate inactivation (quenching) of the cellular metabolism are a necessity. In the literature, the quenching methods used for filamentous fungi mainly include rapid filtration followed by immediate freezing of the cells (mostly used for transcriptomics samples) (▇▇▇▇▇ et al., 2006) or dilution of the cells in a methanol solution of -45 °C (more often used for metabolomics samples) (▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇▇, 1996; ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ et al., 2006; ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ et al., 2008). After quenching the cells, conditions s...

Sampling Strategy. To gain insights about more- and less-effective MDA strategies, the sampling strategy was developed with the goal of identifying differences in practice that may have impacted coverage between high-distributing and low-distributing zones, each within one high-coverage commune and one low-coverage commune. To determine which of metropolitan Port-au-Prince’s five communes still participating in MDA should be targeted, epidemiological coverage data from 2011/12 through 2018 was averaged to identify the most consistently high-coverage and low-coverage communes. Tabarre and Carrefour were identified as having the most consistently high coverage (90%) and low coverage (54.5%), respectively (Table 1). 10 From the French arrondir (“to encircle”), arrondissements are sometimes referred to as “districts.” Subdivisions of Haiti’s ten departments, the 42 arrondissements are further divided into 145 communes and 571 communal sections. Tabarre 90.0% Cite Soleil 73.6% ▇▇▇▇▇▇ 65.6% Port-au-Prince 56.4% Carrefour 54.5% Zone performance data were reviewed to identify a high- and low-distribution zone in each commune. Distribution data by post was only available for 2018, and denominator data were unavailable, preventing calculation of true epidemiological coverage. However, each distribution post was expected to serve approximately 1,000 people [75], and thus, zones were selected based on comparing the average number of people treated per distribution post in each zone to the median number of people treated per post in those zones (Table 2). In 2018, the median number of people treated per post in Tabarre and Carrefour were 807 (range: 250-1,726) and 819 (range: 140-2,579), respectively.

Sampling Strategy a. The flow chart interfered with first line of the following paragraph on my printout. b. Because of observed variability in TCLP results even across small areas, XRF screening should be done throughout the excavation as it proceeds on a frequency that will be likely to catch small volumes of material that fails, but also avoid categorizing large volumes as TCLP waste unnecessarily as a result of infrequent sampling. Perhaps this could this be done on a volume basis (50 yards at a time, for example). Section 8.1 XRF: The BVCP has not yet developed formal requirements for XRF raw data packages. However, with the increasing dependence on XRF for verification sampling, we believe a reasonable level of documentation should be included in the final report to back up the results that are used, similar to the raw data sheets for samples analyzed by a laboratory. Please include in the final report raw data to demonstrate 1) documentation of daily calibration as outlined in the plan and 2) actual sample results as recorded in the field. These may be in the form of log book pages or copies of calibration and sampling forms if you use them. A sentence was added in 8.1 to address the inclusion of field calibration and analytical logs. 15. The no-PIP final grade plan could be removed from the Figures, and a final excavation area plan similar to Fig 5 should be added. 16. I noted that test pit TP-16 in the extreme SW corner of the site had a Pb level of 1400 mg/kg in surface soil. It appears this area is not included in the excavation area. While the concentration observed could potentially be left in place as a result of representative concentration calculations, it is relatively high compared to other exposed soil left in place during the remediation of Sites 1 through 4. In fact, it exceeds the RC for the high level consolidation cell (‘exceedance pile’). Please comment on the conditions in this area and provide justification for not removing or capping it.

Sampling Strategy. The implementer of the study, DelAgua, wanted a household and main source water sample collected along with the household survey in all 30 districts of Rwanda. Figure 3 displays the geographic hierarchy in Rwanda. The implementer outlined the sampling process as randomly selecting 2 villages within each of the 30 districts, with these villages being from non-adjacent cells to increase geographic distribution and representation across a district. In addition, for each village already selected, another village in each cell was randomly selected in order to include the number of water sources sampled. There was a total of 4 villages in each of the districts with approximately 3-5 household surveyed within each village and 12-20 per district. Households were randomly selected from a master list of households under ubudehe categories 1 and 2 (2012 version), the two poorest wealth categories according to the Government of Rwanda. The unit of analysis for this study is the household. This sampling strategy was unconventional and lead to convenient sampling based on which households had a respondent home and who wanted to participate. Enumerators had to work through the randomized list until enough households had been interviewed for each village. Sample weights were not developed so this study is not generalizable on a national level due to the inability to find parameter estimates. Household Village Sector District Provience

Sampling Strategy. I firstly wanted to provide background on how my three organisations and the participants were identified and engaged to be a part of my research. This starts off with the identification and recruitment of my three conservation organisations and the shared project, before moving onto the identification and recruitment of the participants across all three organisations. I then provide an overview of each of the organisations and their shared project in as much detail as possible given the confidentiality around the research and finally, I present a timeline of the data collection and analysis process to provide some context for the remainder of this chapter. 2.1 Identification and recruitment of organisations and project: 1. Organisation needs to be situated in either the GN or GS as defined by the ODA recipients list (OECD.2023). 2. Organisations need to be currently and officially partnered with one another. This is defined by the 3 organisations working together at the time the research took place on a shared project, whereby there were contractual agreements set in place for the roles and responsibilities of each organisation working on the project. 3. Organisations should preferably be focused on conserving Life on Land, (SDG - Target 15), with the specific focus (species, habitat etc.) open to discussion (SDGS. 2015). 4. Finally, there are practical criteria to the search including language, security, and climate, as well as it being essential that both conservation organisations benefited from participation in the research. Firstly, the research needed a GN-GS dynamic. The ODA recipients list was used to identify GS countries as it is a standard used across several countries, as developed by the World Bank and United Nations (OECD.2023). It should be noted that whilst the GS organisation (Organisation 3) was chosen based on the 2018 ODA recipients list, Organisation 3’s country is still on the list in 2023 and as such this is still accurate as the research progressed. Secondly, by having the organisations already partnered, KS was guaranteed as required by the research questions. This was alongside the fact that having currently partnered organisations, would ensure that the data collected was up-to- date and reflective of current factors, so ensuring that Research Question 3 on influencing factors was relevant to current contexts. This is particularly important as within the conservation sector, problems are fast paced and constantly changing (Marti...