This book explores the complex and contentious definitions of capoeira and provides the best historical overview in English to date.
Criticism of traditional academic peer review focuses on: the potential for bias due to the power of elite researchers, conflicts of interest, contentious definitions of "excellence" and "peer", cost, lack of transparency, and its failure to detect fraud [ 1, 2].
The question of what constitutes a terrorist has always been contentious; the definition of "extremism" is even more so.
The question of what constitutes a terrorist has always been contentious; the definition of "extremism" is even more so.
The Wellcome document gives a fuller--and perhaps more contentious--definition of misconduct than parallel regulations governing U.S. federal funding developed by the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) (see table on the left).
On the face of it, landscape is a less contentious means of definition, since our islands have distinct and indisputable features.
Wicked problems are messy, complex, confusing, and contentious, and -- by definition -- span economic, ecological, social, and political systems.
Although the diagnosis of melancholia has had a long history, the validity of the current DSM-IV definition remains contentious.
While several disorders have been demonstrated to occur as a manifestation of the broad TS phenotype (OCD, ADHD) the role of several other conditions is currently a contentious issue in the definition of that broad phenotype [ 8- 12] 12].
