Ultimately the car is a huge list of parts, each one standing on their own as a discrete item that can be made, measured, and tested.
A discrete item computerized timed YES/NO response test was used to determine vocabulary knowledge.
In order to measure the syntactic knowledge of these L2 learners, we borrowed the multiple-choice format of the Korean MEST grammar tests and adapted the content to include 20 items that each assessed a discrete point of syntactic knowledge.
The pieces of information (n=16), information categories (n=6) and definitions are presented in table 2. Although 16 is a large number of discrete items of information to receive, the 6 categories were the main point of interest and the individual items were included to provide details on the type of information recalled.
A holistic approach is taken instead where the discrete items of evidence are integrated into large cognitive structures (variously labelled as "mental models", "stories", "narratives" and "theories of the case"), and they are assessed globally against the legal definition of the crime or civil claim that is in dispute (Pennington and Hastie 1991, 1993; Pardo 2000).
But presenting discrete items of grammar to learners did not guarantee to learn a language the way natural languages are acquired.
If memories are not fixed mental images or discrete items of any kind, permanently stored in the individual mind or brain, then the relatively unstable individual memory may need support from more stable external scaffolding or props.
According to the literature [5],[32],[46], a stream is a sequence of discrete items that are linked by some properties (e.g., same source, same type, time coupling, etc).
Conceptually, the library catalog is a table or matrix in which each row describes a discrete physical item and each column provides values of the assigned key.
