For years, American intelligence officials have objected to publishing quantitative descriptions of the American nuclear arsenal, concerned that the figures might help terrorist groups calculate the minimum nuclear fuel needed for a weapon.
Meanwhile, quantitative descriptions have gained considerable importance.
Table 2 gives quantitative descriptions of the 15 terrain groups.
The cloud model is a model of mutual conversion between qualitative concepts and quantitative descriptions.
The output consists in linguistic descriptions of the landscape or landscape properties, along with quantitative descriptions.
The concept of trophic levels has allowed simplified quantitative descriptions of complex ecological systems.
Restoration targets benefit from quantitative descriptions but many old-growth definitions are qualitative.
Chemical engineering relies heavily on numerical, quantitative descriptions of physical and chemical processes.
Quantitative descriptions of muscle architecture are needed to characterize the force-generating capabilities of muscles.
Quantitative descriptions of the vegetation are provided in Krishnamurthy et al. (2009, 2010) and Prakasha et al. (2008).
Quantitative descriptions of a physical system's behaviour form the backbone of the scientific method used in the natural sciences.
