Information gathering techniques

This information gathering technique is also known as "critical incident technique" and is a means of collecting both poor and good experience from operationally experienced personnel. 

Incident recall is an information gathering technique whereby employees (participants) describe situations they have personally witnessed... 

To avoid an end run, try to ease your boss into acceptance. Your boss is busy, help him/her out. Go to your next level up for help. Keep your boss informed. Draw the next level of management into the decision process. Use the resources as an information-gathering technique. Relieve the impression that you are going around him/her. Work through other people both peers and superiors. If you want results, get someone else to run with your idea. Plant the seed in another department head s mind. 

This first information about the reservoir is recorded, as a function of depth, in the form of several columns. Although rather qualitative in many respects, mudlogging is an important data gathering technique. It is of importance as a basis for operational decisions, e.g. at what depth to set casing, or where to core a well. Mudlogging is also cheap, as data is gathered while the normal drilling operations go on. 

The following sections contain recommended radon-resistant construction techniques that a builder may wish to incorporate into the home. It should be understood that these are recommendations only and should not be construed as guidelines or regulations. The recommendations are based on the best available information gathered from numerous research projects.9... 

Information gathering Additional techniques are needed to confirm these results. 

The difference of temperature between the sample under estimation and a thermally-inert reference material is continuously recorded as a function of furnace temperature in differential thermal analysis (DTA). In actual practice both TGA and DTA are regarded as complementary techniques whereby information gathered by the usage of one approach is invariably supplemented and enhanced by the application of the other method. The range of phenomena measurable during a DTA-run is found to be much larger than in a TGA-run. 

This paper will show that statistics has been with us for a long time. The techniques have gradually developed from simple counting or information gathering to explaining complex phenomena with only limited information. Not to be forgotten will be the ultimate interactive role of philosophy. 

There are two basic considerations when attempting SDM. One is to determine the amino acids that should be mutated and the other is to decide what to replace them with. The first question is, of course, dependant upon information gathered from previous experimentation in order to target residues that are appropriate. Such information may be derived from biochemical techniques. For instance, in our binding site studies, we have specifically mutated amino acids that had previously shown to be covalently labeled by photoactive ligands. Additionally, we have used comparisons between the sequences of different receptor subunits that correlate with receptor function to identify domains of interest. Chimeragenesis, the technique described in the first half of this chapter, can provide important information in this regard. Obviously, those proteins for which a detailed structural model is available will lend themselves to more rational substitutions. 

Even though this is a reasonably sophisticated technique (and one must weigh this point with the cost of instrumentation, maintenance and the need for a highly skilled mass spectrometrist), it nevertheless is a very potent tool in assessing the structural nature of a phospholipid. In Chapter 3 a typical spectrum of a phospholipid was described the information gathered from this pattern can be of enormous help in deciphering the structure. 

When compiling the information gathered by different techniques of various investigators, the view can be expressed that the promoters, among them especially CaO and AI2O3, are uniformly distributed in one or more spinel or distorted spinel phases, the latter partly existing as separate phases. This view is confirmed by the available x-ray data. 

Although MS data can be used to obtain structural information, these data usually need to be extended and corroborated by other analytical techniques such as elemental analyses, molecular weight measurements, NMR, IR, and UV. The remainder of this chapter deals with information gathered from these techniques and with the integration of the data with the above-discussed MS characterization. As volatility is not a limiting factor for these determinations, the data reported include those obtained on the heavier asphaltenes. 

In simple relaxation (the fixed approximate Hessian method), the step does not depend on the iteration history. More sophisticated optimization techniques use information gathered during previous steps to improve the estimate of the minimizer, usually by invoking a quadratic model of the energy surface. These methods can be divided into two classes variable metric methods and interpolation methods. 

Based on the information gathered in steps 1 to 3, an assumption has to be made whether or not a permanent compliance with the limit value can be achieved. If this is not the case, the employer is obliged to perform measurements of the exposure according to a detailed plan, including the measurement technique, the number and frequency of measurements (depending on the exposure scenario calculated on the basis of the assessment in steps 1 to 3). 

---