About Nomenclature and Definitions

Invited review: Culling: nomenclature, definitions, and recommendations.

Replacing cows on a dairy is a major cost of operation. There is a need for the industry to adopt a more standardized approach to reporting the rate at which cows exit from the dairy, and to reporting the reasons why cows are replaced and their destination as they exit the dairy. Herd turnover rate is recommended as the preferred term for characterizing the cows exiting a dairy, in preference t...

Definitions and nomenclature of nucleic acid structure parameters.

Definitions and nomenclature of nucleic acid structure components.

We report here recommendations for the definitions and nomenclature of nucleic acid structure parameters. These recommendations result from discussions at an EMBO Workshop on DNA Curvature and Bending held at Churchill College, Cambridge, in September 1988.

Axial spondyloarthritis: thoughts about nomenclature and treatment targets.

The spondyloarthritides (SpA) are a heterogenous group of rheumatic diseases which are genetically linked. The strongest genetic factors, HLA B27, ERAP-1 and IL-23R, are found at variable rates in subgroups. The new nomenclature differentiates predominantly axial SpA (axSpA) from predominantly peripheral SpA (pSpA). Axial SpA (Ax-SpA) is further classified as classical ankylosing spondylitis (A...

The Importance of Being Earnest about Definitions

Ideas from terminology management, the science of terms and definitions, can be used to improve the quality of software and data models, as well as to facilitate the achievement of some of the current goals of computer science like the realization of the Semantic Web and the re-use of software components. This paper explains the principles and methods of terminology management and relates it to...