The indeterminate character of the broad theoretical formulations offered to account for transfer of training and the often unsuccessful ways in which they were applied to the practical problems of classroom teaching led some psychologists to retreat to the laboratory in the hope of identifying more clear-cut, fundamental processes in transfer of training.
Clear-cut business process or product lifecycle comparisons between bits or atoms alternatives involves uncharted scientific analysis to capture the enterprise or society-wide energy and CO2 cradle-to-grave consequences.
Although this allocation is often portrayed as clear-cut, in practice process distinction can be unclear, and a single verb may meet the coding criteria of a number of categories.
Reducing a company's carbon emissions, say, or minimising waste may be challenging from a technical or economic perspective, but both are fairly clear-cut as exercises in process management.
The other lesson, however, is that science so often seen as a way of arriving at clear-cut answers is itself a process of muddling through to the truth.
This illustrates the typical process flow as clear-cut stages for lucidity but in reality the process is not usually composed of such disjoined distinct steps and many of the stages, although present, are glazed over into one another [ 19, 20].
However, as outlined in a commentary by Dr. Eric P. Brass in this issue of Diabetes Care (3), the input of advisory committees is not always clear-cut in the approval regulatory process.
The usual academic criteria for such an assessment process include: clear-cut standards, the possible involvement of the public in judging assessments, the use of multiple sources of data and assessors, and sampling procedures carried out over several time frames rather than at a single point [ 6].
Further evaluation of differentially regulated biological processes also reveals clear-cut differences between the nematode's responses to Rhine and Elbe sediments.
