The list of preventive, curative, and other activities were developed using descriptive references from the Health Extension Programme, as outlined in the Ministry of Health's Implementation Plan.
The first three two-line stanzas are principally descriptive, with reference to the watch's 'porcelain dial', 'Arabic numerals' and its 'seventeen jewel movement'.
Information embedding (IE) is a recent area of digital media research with many applications, including: passive and active copyright protection (digital watermarking); embedding important control, descriptive, or reference information into a given signal; and covert communications [5].
Odds ratios less than one are more descriptive of reference cluster Individuals in cluster 2 (Most Other Elsewhere) are much more likely than those in cluster 4 (Low Use) to be HIV positive, to have had a recent HIV test, and to have been slapped or hit by a partner, which is similar to cluster 1 (Education Elsewhere).
(Of course some complex expressions, and in particular descriptions, definite and indefinite, together with names or other linguistic expressions that abbreviate or in some other way do duty for descriptions, do have descriptive senses and references).
This is not possible on the standard descriptive theory of reference: a theory \(T\) can only refer to entities about which it gives a true description.
In his writing he became increasingly interested in purely formal concerns, and he began to develop a discernible critical sympathy for work that created a pure, immediate visual sensation, often at the expense of descriptive or pictorial reference.
The title of the new HBO Sunday-night series "Hung" isn't meant to be a double entendre of the kind that induces snickers — it's straightforward descriptive slang, a reference to the physical endowments of the show's main character, Ray Drecker Thomas Janee).
The thought experiment owes to Kripke (1979), who was arguing against descriptive theories of reference.
That is, no genuine names—including names of properties, functions, operations, etc.—have a descriptive sense or reference.
