According to David Ownby, religion in China has been defined since 1912 to refer to "world-historical faiths" that have "well-developed institutions, clergy, and textual traditions"—namely, Buddhism, Daoism, Islam, Protestantism and Catholicism.
As described in this article's introduction, the name Macedonia is applied both to a region encompassing the present-day Republic of Macedonia and portions of Serbia, Bulgaria, and Greece and to the Republic of Macedonia itself, the boundaries of which have been defined since 1913.
The Delphi process is considered complete when consensus and stability levels have been defined, since the application of another round would not provide significant variations in results.
The concept of measuring the brain's resting state became popular in human research and different resting state networks have been defined since.
The results of susceptibility testing were analyzed by all 3 categories of the Clinical Laboratory and Standards Institute penicillin interpretative criteria (oral, meningitis parenteral, nonmeningitis parenteral) that have been defined since 2008.
For clinical records and database entry purposes, COM had been defined since 1997 as a bone infection that was worst or had not improved after one month of evolution, independent of the presence or quality of surgical and antimicrobial therapy.
As the National Institute of Standards and Technology explains, a second has been defined since 1967 as the time it takes for a cesium atom to oscillate 9,192,631,770 times between two radiation states.
(The second, another fundamental unit, has been defined since 1967 as the amount of time it takes an atom of cesium-133 to vibrate 9,192,631,770 times). In effect, a meter no longer needed to be measured; now it could be conjured on demand — "realized," in the parlance of metrology.
While BE has been defined pathologically since the 1950's (Allison and Johnstone, Thorax 1955), and identified as a risk factor for esophageal adenocarcinoma since the 1970's (Naef A.P., et al J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 1975), our understanding of the molecular events giving rise to this condition remains limited.
The Giants' season has been defined by their injuries since the preseason, and although previously little-known players have taken advantage of the opportunities to play and the team has stayed in playoff contention, the relative thinness of the Giants' lineup has remained.
The following base units have been adopted and defined: Since 1983 the metre has been defined as the distance traveled by light in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 second.
