Table 3 Basic mode of functioning of the respective national ICU reimbursement schemes, based on experts' responses Basic modes of functioning ( "++" strongly agree, "+" agree, "0" indifferent or unknown, "-" do not agree, "-- do not agree at all) Item Grading GER IRL UK NETH AUS DEN FRA SPA The reimbursement works per case (e.g., DRG-based).
His son, Howard, says that it's difficult to connect with Buffett on an emotional level, "because that's not his basic mode of operation".
Mr. McKean speaks in a timorous, nasal voice, as if Arthur has become so shriveled up that he has almost lost the ability to assert himself through the basic mode of speech.
Even in more temperate times, the basic mode of civic discourse there involves a lengthy question about campaign-finance reform posed by an older man wearing an L.L. Bean barn jacket.
Narrative is such a basic mode of human thought, such a powerful way of organising the world around us that it's "really easy to think that, looking at the world through a particular narrative frame, we're looking at the unvarnished truth, the unarguably real.
The taboo against the class of words epitomized by what that Morality in Media press release called, rather too vividly, the "four-letter word for fecal matter" has been made less urgent by the decline of the horse as the basic mode of urban transport, the universal adoption of modern plumbing, and the successful "Clean up after your dog" crusade that is the lasting legacy of former Mayor Ed Koch.
Quantification is the basic mode of reference to objects, and reference to objects is always ontologically committing.
The basic mode of SuperDARN radar is monitoring of the intensity and speed of the small-scale ionospheric irregularities.
The basic mode of educating user is posting help pages in websites and warning the user about phishing.
We also highlight how the basic mode of dynein motility might be influenced by external regulators such as Lis1.
