A scenario is defined as a coherent description of possible outcomes of a number of drivers that may influence and change the shape of the system over a given period of time.
Study quality was defined as a clear description of sampling, data collection, study design, blinding, (partial) verification and missing data.
According to the FTM-EC guideline for researchers, "amendment" is defined as a written description of a change(s) to or formal clarification of a protocol.
Uncertainty has been defined as an incomplete description of the world (Arrow 1974), unpredictability, or perhaps more precisely as Knightian uncertainty where the probability distribution is not well defined.
In general, ontologies are used to provide machine-readable and interpretable descriptions that can be defined as a formal, explicit description of a shared management concept (Gruber 1993).
Cardiovascular morbidity was defined as any description of clinically diagnosed ischemic heart disease, heart failure, stroke, or peripheral vascular disease in each medical record from initiation of dialysis.
In this paper, we introduce the concept of information technology outsourcing (ITO) 'configuration', defined as: a high-level description of the set of choices the organization makes in crafting its IT outsourcing portfolio.
We find that the stable throughput region coincides with the Shannon capacity region for many scenarios of side information, where side information is defined as a mix of statistical description and instantaneous queue states.
This differentiation of a general theory of language from universal regularities of linguistic phenomena corroborates Osgood's (1966: 300) conception of theory as "a higher level description", defined as "a set of principles, which economically and elegantly, encompasses the whole set of functions" displayed by human languages.
