When there is a DSL that matches the domain of a given problem, its use, in general, implies in reduction of the authoring time when compared to general-purpose languages [1], because one single DSL sentence can have an equivalent meaning to several imperative ones.
Carnap suggested that moral judgments are equivalent to relatively simple imperatives.
Kant considered that formulation of the categorical imperative to be equivalent to: "So act that you treat humanity in your own person and in the person of everyone else always at the same time as an end and never merely as means".
(On the different versions of the Imperative, which Kant claims are equivalent, see Kant's moral philosophy, §§5-9).
That is, in situations which lack of a single dominant imperative, several alternative, and functionally equivalent management control system (MCS) designs, may arise.
Therefore, it is imperative that the examiner's contribution be equivalent for all children so that interchild differences in performance can be attributed to child characteristics rather than to some combination of child and examiner characteristics.
Since the immune response to a novel pathogen is unlikely be equivalent to the product of an antagonistic co-evolutionary relationship, it is imperative to also probe the immune response in naturally-occurring host-parasite systems.
It is therefore imperative to ensure that the test and each individual item are taking equivalent measurements across groups (Camilli, 2006).
It becomes imperative in these conditions to use a more complex nonlinear estimate of the noise equivalent rate developed here for the first time in literature.
Thus, it is imperative to demonstrate that all C. albicans biofilms formed in a same CaBChip are equivalent to each other, which is essential for its future use in large scale high throughput/high content screening applications.
