A retrospective study approach was used implementing uniform definitions for colon, rectal, breast, melanoma, bladder and ovarian cancers.
The authors would encourage international discussions on the desirability of standardizing and implementing operational definitions for data collected in these databases.
Michael Glennon, professor of international law at the Fletcher School at Tufts University, warned on these pages (April 6) that implementing the definition will "bollix an international equilibrium that already is precarious enough".
For purposes of resolving the equal protection challenge, it is not necessary to decide whether the Florida Supreme Court had the authority under the legislative scheme for resolving election disputes to define what a legal vote is and to mandate a manual recount implementing that definition.
An important first goal of this research was to develop computable definitions for a set of well-known heuristics, and then implement these definitions within the hypothetico-deductive framework used in our tutoring system.
Moreover, part of the effects identified may also reflect differences in national definitions of injury severity, and also in the way the police implement these definitions on the accident scene.
For the flux analysis, we used our tool, written in OCaml, that implements the definitions below.
A second aim was to implement uniform definitions, specimen acquisition, and culturing techniques for infection surveillance: continuous, systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of health-related and infections data.
20 The definition we used is the most widely implemented standard definition of wound infection, 19 and by developing our own wound assessment scale we hoped to reduce the subjectivity of diagnosis of infection.
Future work could consider implementing a priori definitions for degree of injury or dehydration to create more consistency when determining if a bout is to be cancelled.
