This document presents the findings of a scoping study commissioned by the Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) program of the California Energy Commission to determine what research is necessary to develop new residential ventilation requirements for California. This study is one of three companion efforts needed to complete the job of determining the ventilation needs of California residenc...

In December 2010, the Australian Institute for Social Research (AISR) was commissioned to conduct a scoping study into Teaching Nursing Homes (TNHs). The final report on the scoping study and the accompanying discussion paper are released ahead of the commencement of the proposed call for project proposals to promote the teaching nursing homes concept and facilitate the establishment of innovat...

IP multicasting allows a source to deene a multicast group address and receivers can dynamically join and leave this group. Currently the propagation of multicast packets is controlled by two scoping methods: TTL scoping and administrative scoping. Both of these approaches require the source to control the scope of the multicast. In this paper we explore two receiver-based scoping protocols. Re...

Problem scoping—determining the nature and boundaries of a problem—is an essential aspect of the engineering design process. Some studies from engineering education suggest that beginning students tend to skip problem scoping or oversimplify a problem. However, the ways these studies often characterize students’ problem scoping often do not reflect the complexity found in experts’ designing and...

Scoping is essential to the success of any product line engineering effort. The scope of a product line describes its products, domains, and reusable assets. Numerous stakeholders are influenced by the outcome of the scoping process. To get an optimal result, as well as to gain commitment to this result, these stakeholders should be involved in the scoping process. They bring with them differen...

METHODS: A systematic scoping review was undertaken from October 2016 to January 2017, with no restrictions on date or language. We followed the five scoping review steps as proposed by Arskey and O’Malley: (1) Identification of the research question; (2) Identification of relevant studies; (3) Study selection; (4) Data charting and (5) Collation and reporting of results.2 A narrative synthesis...

Dynamic deployment of aspects brings greater flexibility and reuse potential, but requires a proper means for scoping aspects. Scoping issues are particularly crucial in a distributed context: adequate treatment of distributed scoping is necessary to enable the propagation of aspect instances across host boundaries and to avoid inconsistencies due to unintentional spreading of data and computat...

Scoping studies have been used across a range of disciplines for a wide variety of purposes. However, their value is increasingly limited by a lack of definition and clarity of purpose. The UK's Service Delivery and Organisation Research Programme (SDO) has extensive experience of commissioning and using such studies; twenty four have now been completed.This review article has four objectives; ...

BACKGROUND Public and policy attention to female genital mutilation (FGM) in diaspora communities has increased in Europe, but research remains limited and misinformation abounds. As a first step to addressing these issues, this study explored FGM prevention and response interventions in Europe, using a scoping literature review and key informant interviews. METHODS A scoping study design was...

INTRODUCTION Obesity has become one of the biggest public health problems of the 21st century. Prevalence of obesity in children and adolescents has increased dramatically worldwide over the last 20 years, and this trend is expected to continue. Obesity in childhood is concerning as it predicts obesity in adulthood, a common risk factor for a wide array of chronic diseases and poor health outco...