For the record, the fourth edition of "Webster's New World College Dictionary" lists one definition of maintain as "a) to uphold or defend, as by argument; affirm b) to declare in a positive way; assert".
My dictionary definition of promiscuity maintains that it means "indiscriminant" and gives promiscuous "massacre" and "hospitality" as examples.
They also allude briefly to the problems of maintaining similar definitions over long time periods, which is a critical issue, since, if the perimeter of safety is expanding, it becomes more difficult to demonstrate improvement over time.
The linearity, which has no international definition, usually refers to the capability of maintaining the sensitivity constant over the measuring interval.
"I have excellent teams in all my kitchens and this use of high definition CCTV is a very efficient way of maintaining that quality".
Fourth, it's difficult by definition to maintain margins once a company gets past a certain level of sales and profitability.
The original version of the scale has three dimensions (i.e., maintaining family integration, cooperation, and an optimistic definition of the situation; maintaining social support, self-esteem, and psychological stability; and understanding the medical situation through communication with other parents and consultation with medical staff).
The EMR standard definition created for this study identified more patients than the ODD definition while maintaining good sensitivity and specificity in comparison with the ODD, and represented the most comprehensive EMR definition of diabetes achievable in our data.
The "traditional" definition of complete revascularization maintains that at least one bypass is performed in each affected arterial territory [ 1, 2], while the "functional" definition assumes that all graftable coronary artery segments with significant flow impairment be subjected to bypass [ 4].
These reviews are an essential step towards a definition of RDAs designed to maintain genomic stability.
