Regarding the definition of vulnerability, the ontology distinguishes whether vulnerability is defined explicitly or implicitly in a vulnerability assessment.
The overall goal is to distinguish theoretical vulnerability from real danger.
However, AVF considers that the value of a bit in a clock cycle is either required for Architecturally Correct Execution (i.e. ACE-bit) or not (i.e. unACE-bit); therefore, AVF cannot distinguish the vulnerability impact level of an ACE-bit.
Thus, it is easy to distinguish successful vulnerability exploitation from error messages.
For another example, the ASVI cannot distinguish the vulnerability of the system in Fig. 4 from that of the system in Fig. 5 under a same hazard scenario, as these two systems have the same ASVI value.
…FSOC declared in the Final Determination and maintains now that the Guidance neither 'requires [n]or states that [FSOC] will evaluate the probability or likelihood of material financial distress at a nonbank financial company.' Thus, FSOC attempts to distinguish between assessing vulnerability to distress and evaluating likelihood of distress.
Three main concepts can be distinguished in measuring vulnerability to poverty; these are vulnerability as expected poverty (VEP), vulnerability as low expected utility (VEU) and vulnerability as uninsured exposure to risk (VER) [23, 24].
Many previous assessments have created single summary scores that allowed them to delineate groupings of communities into least to most vulnerable categories, but were unable to distinguish specific areas of vulnerability (e.g., Cutter and others 2003; Brooks and others 2005).
Without individual level socioeconomic data on both cases and the referent population, one cannot distinguish between sensitivity or vulnerability conferred by individual or ecologic characteristics.
The results have demonstrated the ability of FloodRisk, respect to EDQ approach, to distinguish successfully different levels of vulnerability of exposure elements, thanks to the use of asset value and depth-damage curves, that allows a suitably evaluation of the effectiveness of risk mitigation strategies.
