The scoring system described in the current paper is one of the major advantages of SAGE over previous measures of research use in a discrete policy document (e.g. [ 37]).
In the interview, policymakers are invited to describe how research was searched for, obtained, appraised, generated (i.e. research engagement actions), and used (i.e. research use: conceptual, instrumental, tactical, and imposed) to inform the development of a discrete policy document (see Additional file 1 for the SAGE interview).
To a great extent, the things that are being 'identified' by identifiers are discrete documents, traditionally rendered as discrete print works.
In providing new details about those case reports, senior government officials described them for the first time as discrete documents, each at least 20 pages long and devoted to a particular target, and perhaps most intriguingly, they said, written in "perfect English".
"Omnity makes mathematical equations that describe statistical patterns of rare words in discrete documents, without regard to work proximity, and without regard to grammar or grammatical content," wrote Sager.
The process of debate is this - does it come out on the Monday after the document as a discrete entity where the government will try to emphasise it is about what is best for communities rather than for the macro-economy?
For an EFHIA to lead to meaningful learning about health equity issues it may be necessary to regard it as a collaborative learning process integrated into planning activities rather than simply being a document or a discrete activity that occurs separate to planning.
In the first category, we combined all TDWG Level 1 data to yield a discrete binary character describing any documented use, while the second comprised data in the TDWG Level 2 Medicines category.
A discrete local story, dramatic and well documented, it provides in microcosm evidence supporting two interlocking interpretations for the Constitution: the argument for robust central government and the rise of democratic movements in the early republic.
"The geographic scope has narrowed from a global effort to a discrete focus on the European Union and Switzerland," one NSA document states.
