The phrase "author terms" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to specific terminology or definitions established by an author in a particular context, such as a book, article, or research paper.
Example: "In her latest novel, the author terms 'emotional resilience' as the ability to adapt to challenging situations."
Alternatives: "author definitions" or "author terminology".
"Jimmy Corrigan" tells of a potato-headed, hypersensitive office worker — "a lonely, emotionally-impaired human castaway," the author terms him — who lacks any notable personal resource except a limitless capacity for mental suffering.
Also discussed are insights relevant to pseudoneurological symptoms and to the forthcoming Dissociative-Conversive disorders category in DSM-V, including what the author terms fright-triggered acute pseudo-localized symptoms (i.e., pseudoparalysis, pseudocerebellar imbalance, psychogenic blindness, pseudoseizures, and epidemic sociogenic illness).
Drawing on interviews with what the author terms "memory curators, " coupled with a robust analysis of secondary literature from a range of transitional cases, the book analyses how the bodies of the dead, the injured, and the traumatised are written into - or written out of - transitional justice.
The author expertly presents individual experiences in highlighting the gendered and racialized differences in livelihood strategies sought in order to create personal "social worth," a process the author terms "embodied negotiations" (p. 87).
The narrator of Kalooki Nights ($25, Jonathan Cape, 2006), the Howard Jacobson novel recently long-listed for Britains prestigious Man Booker Prize, is Max Glickman, a Jewish cartoonist raised in Manchester, U.K. in the 1950s during what the author terms the golden age of Jewish secularity.
The annotations of models include publication information, authors, terms from controlled vocabularies, and links to external resources.
This study notes a sharp difference between "traditional" radical political Islam and what the authors term "radical-Islamic puritanism," which characterizes the new generation.
The authors term this region the "orientation association area," or O.A.A., and they believe that the decrease in its activity during meditation or prayer is highly significant.
Among the risks the authors termed of "high concern" is the possibility that terrorists or a nation-state could re-create a virus such as smallpox.
This approach uses a set of linear sweep voltammograms from different, large overpotentials to open circuit voltage, which the authors term variable reverse linear sweep voltammetry.
Angiograms of treated (but not control) neuroblastomas displayed novel rounded structures at vessel branches, which the authors term terminal vascular bodies (TVBs).
