With well-founded scientific knowledge and a sound, quantifiable data basis for the structures and functions of a research object, such simulation procedures could make useful contributions to the future-oriented analysis of systems with low complexity and dynamics.
The phenomenon appears to be largely due to the transformation, and eventual dissipation, of the potential energy developed by the rising solid slugs; it is fully quantifiable on this basis, and appears to be independent of the extent of particle-particle and particle-wall frictional interactions, both of which can play significant roles in other aspects of slugging behaviour.
The body is defined on the basis of quantifiable measurements with the aim of stimulating better results: 'A body test allows you to monitor your progress' (Instruction Wii Fit gameplay).
On one hand, best practice guidelines from the cultural sector [58 60] have provided detailed image quality metrics as a basis for a quantifiable quality management in digitization workflows (for overview see [7]).
To make the task manageable, the first round of the process consists of discarding the great majority of candidates on the basis of two quantifiable, and therefore supposedly objective, standards: grade point average and GRE scores, including those in specific subject matter tests.
A recent large-scale analysis of 1219 protein superfamilies indicates that such a lack of correlation with the organisms' biological complexity (roughly quantifiable e.g. on the basis of estimates of the number of cell types) may represent a rather typical situation [ 50].
Finally, the sheer amount of digital high-precision morphological data will enable and necessitate new attempts to formulate software-based, quantifiable similarity assessments as the basis of homology hypotheses.
However the number of medals obtained over a 4 year period gives less information than a study of quantifiable events obtained on a yearly basis.
