Whichever grouping of chronic NCDs is used for a particular purpose, it is important to specify the criteria for the inclusion of the particular NCDs in that grouping.
Although the instability problem of the orthotropic steel deck system due to flexural compressive stress has been recognized for years, current bridge design specifications do not clearly specify the criteria to prevent local buckling of the orthotropic deck system.
Hart claimed that wherever a legal system exists, there also exists a "rule of recognition" that specifies the criteria of legal validity that any rule must satisfy in order to count as a rule of that legal system.
This is not the case, however: the question, in its primitive or in a more sophisticated (that is: by specifying the criteria of comparison) form has rarely been posed and, if so, the answer was mostly inconclusive.
Statistical principles described in ISO 5725 1 (1994) are a robust basis for evaluating cigarette smoke data from collaborative studies under the ISO 3308 machine smoking and for specifying the criteria for the removal of outlier data and determination of mean yields and their variability.
One uncontroversial role would be to insist that the delegated authorities (the ministry of health) specify the criteria and the process used to define the benefit package, and then exercise judicial review of whether specific decisions are made through that process that use those criteria.
Reviewers applied the InterQual Criteria via daily review (or as otherwise specified within the Criteria) of the patient's medical record and observation and treatment charts, as well as by conferring with treating clinical teams when information was not readily available.
In certain cases it is not the service concerned specified but the criteria of eligibility [e.g., the supply of breast milk; Decree No. 47/1997 (XII. 17) NM of the Minister of Welfare on the Supply of Breast Milk in the Frame of the Compulsory Health Insurance].
One could proceed by specifying the admission criteria of campuses in the presence and absence of affirmative action, characterizing the criteria students have for the campuses to which they apply and to which they enroll if admitted and that campuses use in its admission decisions and, thus, the matching of students to colleges (or alternative activities)14.
Of these three "secondary rules," as Hart calls them, the source-determining rule of recognition is most important, for it specifies the ultimate criteria of validity in the legal system.
