The intention for this first pass prescriptive semantic basis is to begin a structured approach for exploring the existence of one or more semantic fields, which together form a coherent semantic framework for tracing desired ilities into verifiable system requirements and specifications.
Commonly held values or views of a specific issue can be regarded as prescriptive, forming the basis of a code of conduct and justifying institutionalized obligations such as directives, laws and other regulations.
A common way of handling structural fire protection and design is using the so called standard fire as basis for prescriptive design.
A large volume of huge and complex buildings are being constructed in many cities, especially in the Far East Asia, The conventional regulatory control of building design on the basis of prescriptive building and fire safety codes and regulations may not facilitate the building designers to compile an innovative design.
This paper describes the semantic challenge underlying the concept of a coherent set of system properties, a sampling of various efforts to ascribe meaning to particular ilities, and proposes a prescriptive 20 category semantic basis for specifying a set of ilities, while avoiding the assertion of new definitions.
This paper addresses the issue of newspaper-headline interpretation by questioning standard assumptions on how headlines are designed on the basis of largely prescriptive pragmatic guidelines or norms.
Such work will improve the targeting of this useful therapy and may allow appropriate prescriptive dosing schedules on an individual basis.
A broad set of guidelines was developed in accordance with best practice which gave therapists the flexibility to treat patients on an individual basis without being overly prescriptive.
As such, drawing prescriptive conclusions regarding best practices on the basis of these data is difficult.
David Hume generated a popular controversy with his famous passages of "A Treatise of Human Nature" (cf. Hume 2000, Book 3, Part 1, Section 1, paragraph 27) where he noted that sometimes people draw conclusions involving prescriptive statements of the form 'ought to be' on the basis of descriptive statements of the form 'what is'.
