Armonk is an area without clear-cut boundaries, but it is increasingly used to describe more than two-thirds of North Castle, which also encompasses two other hamlets, Banksville and North White Plains.
These findings therefore show that there are no clear-cut boundaries between voluntary and involuntary return decisions (see also Monsutti, 2008).
Groundwater pollution is a vague concept because there are often no clear-cut boundaries that separate a "polluted" from an "unpolluted" sample.
At the first scale, we assessed patch or third-order selection by comparing use (radiotelemetry) with study area-wide random locations and a dummy variable identifying whether locations occurred within or outside of clear-cut boundaries.
Recent scholarship has found less clear-cut boundaries between humanism and scholasticism than were formerly assumed, and this is also true for humanist and scholastic uses of probability-related terms.
Our objectives were to assess (1) the characteristics of foraging substrates used by woodpeckers, (2) whether birds foraged according to the availability of high-quality foraging substrates found at varying distances from edges and (3) to characterize the movement patterns of foraging individuals near clear-cut boundaries.
The findings show that there are no clear-cut boundaries between voluntary and involuntary return decisions: almost no decision to return was entirely free, as there were legal constraints, family pressure, economic needs or socio-cultural difficulties at the basis of this decision.
It may seem semantically pedantic, but given that concepts and their concomitant "definitions" are by their very nature imprecise (Cleland and Chyba 2002; Hyde 2011); science communicators and educators need to revisit their phraseology with a view to avoiding the use of clichés which imply clear-cut boundaries where there are none.
Concepts such as furniture or bird, she claimed, are not represented just as sets of criterial features with clear-cut boundaries, so that an item can be conceived as falling or not falling under the concept based on whether or not it meets some relevant criteria.
