Our common terms, which are just singular utterances or inscriptions, are common in virtue of being subordinated to our common concepts.
While "metabolic process" and "multicellular organismal process" are relatively common terms which would be expected to feature prominently in the distribution of terms, "pigmentation" would only be expected to generate few counts among a random set of genes.
The hazard models for the first and second birth were estimated jointly, with a common unobserved heterogeneity term, which allowed us to account for selection of family-oriented women to the sample used for studying second births.
Indeed one of the advantages of having genes annotated with GO terms is the possibility to compare them not only from a qualitative point of view (e.g. by searching for common terms with which they are annotated), but also by defining an explicit semantic similarity measure which reflects the closeness in meaning between the terms with which they are annotated [12], [13].
Ironically, this meant there was less and less system left, no common terms by which the whole community could move ahead.
Aggregating such data from several EDs provides one means of assessing the landscape of emergency care in a regional or national system and common terms by which to compare these systems across countries.
It's rather common for terms which have a precise mathematical meaning to be used loosely for the purposes of emphasis.
This is true even for common use terms, which in reality avoid precise definitions.
I'm also pretty good at "getting by" — especially if you apply the increasingly common definition of the term, which has more to do with keeping up appearances than with keeping things under control.
The IUPAC definition, "a test substance that is added to a system in order to bring about a reaction or to see whether a reaction occurs" [38], does not match the common usage of the term which further includes the chemical species involved in a reaction, i.e. reactants, solvents, catalysts, etc.
