Another problem is that the replacement of discontinuous terms may weaken stability, which can be critical.
At the policy level, a recent commentary in the Lancet advocates for the replacement of the term "family planning" with "contraception"; a more neutral term that applies to users, with or without families [ 19].
It focuses on the replacement of long-term carcinogenicity tests in rodents (especially mice) with shorter-term tests involving genetically-engineered mice (GEM).
Owing to replacement of long term absent (or deceased) employees and the assumption that short term absenteeism will be partly caught up with when sick employees return to work, absent employees contribute to the production losses only during the "friction period" until they are replaced.
This is not job destruction, but job atomization — the replacement of long-term, full-time work with benefits, and a career path, with occasional, short-term contract gigs without benefits or any escalating career structure.
In 2010 Mikulski also sponsored Rosa's Law, which mandated the replacement of the term "mental retardation" with "intellectual disability" in federal legislation.
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As a result, some researchers have called for the replacement of the term (Maskiewicz and Lineback, 2013).
These included: Removal of all references to the person with dementia as the 'loved one' and replacement of this term with 'relative'relative
