In providing new details about those case reports, senior government officials described them for the first time as discrete documents, each at least 20 pages long and devoted to a particular target, and perhaps most intriguingly, they said, written in "perfect English".
"Omnity makes mathematical equations that describe statistical patterns of rare words in discrete documents, without regard to work proximity, and without regard to grammar or grammatical content," wrote Sager.
Zardo and Collie [ 35], however, developed a content analysis method where discrete policy documents are examined and coded for type of evidence cited (e.g., academic evidence, internal policies, medical evidence).
Specifically, measures were developed to evaluate the impact of the SPIRIT intervention on organisations' capacity to support research use (i.e. ORACLe), policymakers' self-reported capacity, engagement with, and use of research (i.e. SEER (Seeking, Engaging, and Evaluating Research) [ 35]), and the use of research in the development of discrete policy documents (i.e. SAGE [ 35]).
The scoring system described in the current paper is one of the major advantages of SAGE over previous measures of research use in a discrete policy document (e.g. [ 37]).
In the interview, policymakers are invited to describe how research was searched for, obtained, appraised, generated (i.e. research engagement actions), and used (i.e. research use: conceptual, instrumental, tactical, and imposed) to inform the development of a discrete policy document (see Additional file 1 for the SAGE interview).
Conventions are generally designed so that they can be mixed in a document, typically as discrete sections of a document (i.e. they do not overlap (instance 2 in Figure 7)).
No PCR product was amplified with Pina specific primers in rye and triticale, but the authors documented discrete allelic variation at the secaloindoline loci in rye.
For all stages examined, sense and antisense riboprobes for sonic hedgehog were used as experimental controls since the tissue expression of this gene is discrete and well documented [ 30].
Another measure we have developed, SAGE [ 60- 62], measures the extent to which research was engaged with and used in discrete policy or program documents.
As regards concerns for worse off in priority setting of health interventions, discrete choice experiments, policy documents and public debate in countries like Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands have emphasized the relevance of current severity and/or expected health losses at the time of intervention [ 5- 10].
