In his important commentary on Quine's discussion, Hilary Putnam (1962 [1975]) tried to rescue what he thought were theoretically innocuous examples of analytic truths by appeal to what he called "one-criterion" concepts, or concepts like, e.g., [bachelor], [widow], [ophthalmologist], where there seems to be only one "way to tell" whether they apply.
Both profiling approaches PWRA and NNRA introduce the multi-criteria concept in recommendations.
Sustainability is inherently a multi-criteria concept, thus it is appropriate to use multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA).
In the IWG criteria, the concept of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is abandoned in favor of the more specific prodromal AD for those patients with symptomatic predementia AD.
The strengths of our review are the inclusion of chronic respiratory disease patients, patients with chronic cardiac diseases and elderly people, and the use of the same population criteria and concept definitions within two reviews.
The RESOLVE study allowed for such a dosing regimen, because retreatment (after three monthly injections) was based on predefined visual acuity/CRT and safety criteria; this concept partly mimics clinical practice.
Although there is continuing debate regarding the MetS criteria and concept, this clustering of risk factors is unequivocally linked to an increased risk for developing type 2 diabetes mellitus and CVD (12– 12).
What is needed is a workable model of the identity criteria for concepts (allowing us confidently to either affirm or deny such claims as "The concept of moral obligation is the concept of an institution-transcendent requirement")—but we have no such model, and there is no consensus even on what approximate shape such a model would take.
These limitations necessitate the development of criteria or concepts for safer and more efficient drug use in the elderly, ideally amalgamated at an international level.
The grading of the models is carried out by the two founders according to a set of six criteria defined as "concept, movement, presentation, future, price versus quality, and merit".
The same eligibility criteria as the concept elicitation interviews were utilized for the cognitive debriefing interviews.
