Fruit interviews

Newsletters and support group leaders proved to be fruitful resources for initial contacts, made by telephone prior to my trips. Each person I contacted expressed a desire to share with others the opportunity to give voice to the story of MCS, and volunteered referrals. The few who declined to be interviewed for personal reasons always offered some helpful bit of information or assistance of... 

Egypt. Dried fruits are smoked as a treatment for schistosomiasis "". The fruit is used intravaginally as a contraceptive before and after coitus. Fifty-three percent of 1200 puerperal women interviewed practiced this method, of whom 47% depended on indigenous method and/or prolonged lactation ". 

Prominent scientists of the pharma industry, such as Malcolm McCoss, Merck John Lamattina, Pfizer Robert Ruffolo, Wyeth Steven Paul, and Lilly Research Labs who were interviewed by Chemical Engineering News [1], did not provide a clear answer to the key question, which stakeholders, shareholders, and patients alike, are most worried about Will the new tools of pharma R D allow the industry to also collect the high-hanging fruit, namely, new therapeutic categories like Alzheimer s disease, different forms of cancer, metabolic syndromes, and multiple sclerosis, which develop over... 

Some of the data we use are taken from the California Energy Commission s 2001 report (8). Other data sources include the California Department of Food and Agriculture the Raisin Administrative Committee the Renewable Fuels Association and interviews with individuals in the tree fruit, citrus, almond, raisin, and grape industries. 

In a telephone interview, Brooks acknowledged that this assertion is not quite correct. I m sure I ve taken some fruit, like an apple or an orange, but it s better in public to keep it simple. He again staunchly denied the 7-Eleven story. 

The researeh has been eondueted using the ease study method (Yin, 2002). Pilot-farms have been ehosen for the analysis of the most eommon finit growing and management teehniques, in the area eonsidered. However, the farms seleeted are not a statistically representative sample. The data have been collected directly on farms. Fruit growers and technical assistants have been interviewed the production technique has been described individual balance sheet items have been valuated and the employment of resources for the scheduled activities have been identified. 

Franceschi et al. studied the effects of 26 types or groups of vegetables and fruit on the risk of cancer using data from two case-control studies that included 1225 cases of cancer of the colon, 728 cases of cancer of the rectum, 2569 cases of cancer of the breast, and 5155 hospital controls interviewed between 1991 and 1996 in six Italian areas. Consumption of most vegetables was inversely associated with cancer of the colon and rectum. High fruit intake was associated only with a reduction of rectal cancer. ... 

Acknowledgements. This work was performed under the auspices of the SESAR WP-E research network ComplexWorld. It is co-financed by Eurocontrol on behalf of the SESAR Joint Undertaking. The authors are grateful to the retired airline pilot who participated in the interview for his useful input on the case study, and to Jan Treur for a number of fruitful discussions. 

In general, the interviewer should use open rather than closed questions. An open question solicits a discursive reply, whereas a closed question generates yes/no answers. Closed questions are more likely to make the interviewee feel defensive because a no response may make him or her feel that they were at fault. On the other hand, an open question can open up unexpected and fruitful lines of thought. Therefore, it is much better to ask What happened next rather than Did you check the valve position Indeed, it is best to avoid use of the word you altogether. A question such as Why did you do that is quite likely to arouse a defensive response. 

Despite a measure of War Department standardization during World War II, little consistency was found in the zone of interior or theater of operations records relating to the Chemical Warfare Service in World War II. Sources of great importance for one overseas area would prove useless or nonexistent for another. Consequently, while administration and organization records proved most fruitful, portions of this work depend heavily on historical reports, monographs, studies, secondary works, and interviews. 

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