Although evidence of functionality of specific lncRNAs continues to accumulate, conflicting, confusing, and overlapping terminology has fostered ambiguity and lack of clarity in the field in general.
The variety of overlapping terminology shown by our study echoes the multiple codes listed in the WHO International Classification of Disease for causes of prolonged and obstructed labor and draws attention to the need for agreement on a simplified and standardized global terminology to describe these common conditions [ 32].
A challenge of this review was understanding the definitions and concepts presented in the articles included in the full-text assessment because of the inconsistent use of terminology and the overlap between domains, sub-domains, and items within each conceptual framework.
Although having a degree of spatial overlap, the terminology applied to these different zones is not synonymous.
As his terminology suggests, these formulations overlap to some extent with literary understandings of past practice.
Key morphological indicators sometimes overlap stages, terminology that is useful for one purpose may be misleading for another, particular terms can be misleading in cross-species comparisons, and manipulation of the embryo for continued observation can have a causal impact on ontogeny.
The Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (http://obi-ontology.org/page/Main_Page) has partial overlap of terminology with the MMO and XCO, but it was decided that new ontologies created in-house and specifically for methods and conditions of quantitative phenotype data would be the most efficient way to proceed.
To assess and depict the impact from surrounding regions on the mtDNA pool, the East Timor haplogroups were classified according to their geographic origin as per previous reports, where terminology and assignments were overlapping and contradictory at times [ 3, 5, 15, 16, 24, 28- 30, 32, 34, 40, 70, 80].
However, there are differences between the concepts of efficient water use as viewed by scientists, regulators and farmers, further confused by the overlap of similar terminology with both precise technical and wider less specific meanings.
