Indeed, a more selective definition of pre-renal AKI would have required the use of highly subjective criteria such as clinical history, physical examination, and physician judgment [ 9, 10].
Because we were concerned about being overwhelmed by an unmanageable number of case reports of unspecific fevers, we chose a selective case definition, particularly for WNF, with the obligatory presence of a rash, and thereby lowered the sensitivity of the surveillance.
22 A revised version was presented as International Consensus Criteria (the ICC-2011 Criteria) for ME, 23 claiming to be a selective case definition for identification of patients with neuroimmune exhaustion with a pathologically low threshold of fatigability and symptom flare after exertion.
In Mr. Brodsky's and Westchester's defense, they are not alone in this selective definition of "Progressivism".
That grants too much credence to her particular, peculiar and highly selective definition of piety.
By contrast, the selective definition of multifunctionality within Dutch policy is partly due to the co-evolution of strong environmentalist sympathies, together with a liberalization of agricultural management.
Beyond the obvious candidates like suggestions of correlation implying causation and improper use of statistical techniques, perhaps one of the greatest enablers of fake news in the memes I come across is sampling bias and selective definitions.
In this study, I propose that the majority of spliceosomal introns in vertebrate genomes may be maintained by a selective force against intron loss: exon definition.
Exon definition may thus be a selective force against intron loss.
The main emphasis in a definition of intelligence, then, is that it is not a cognitive or mental process per se but rather a selective combination of these processes that is purposively directed toward effective adaptation.
