We will define an indication as an objective or subjective reason (or hypothetical clinical scenario) that the authors provided in order to guide surgeons towards the use of damage control (or a specific damage control intervention) over single-stage surgery (or a definitive surgical procedure).
A dimensionless number, field synergy number Fc, is defined as an indication of the synergy degree between velocity and temperature field for the entire flow and heat transfer domain.
Behavioural intention is defined as "an indication of a person's readiness to perform a behaviour" (Fishbein and Ajzen, 2010).
A multi-dimensional Markov chain is used to analyze the performance of the proposed scheme, where P i,j,k) is the state probability of the state (i,j,k), and ϕ i,j,k) is defined as an indication function that equals 1 only if state (i,j,k) is feasible, and is 0 else wise.
A suboptimal reduction and/or fixation will be defined as an indication for a revision following from the systematic evaluation.
A recombination signal is defined as an indication that different parts of a viral sequence may descend from different ancestors.
Sedatives were administered when patients could not continue NIV due to agitation, and generally, +1 or more on the RASS was defined as an indication to administer sedation.
Risk perception (six questions with answers on a 5-points scale) is defined as an indication of an individual's perception of risk of quartz exposure and susceptibility to short- or long-term health effects.
In accordance to these heuristic median estimates, an individual MCER estimate ≤ 100 €/% was defined as an indication for "individual cost effectiveness" for the respective patient's health care (sub) process.
Instead, we used the pragmatic approach to ask physicians to record any change of AT within 5 days, which was defined a priori as an indication of inadequate initial therapy.
