A maturity model may provide, for example, a place to start, the benefit of a community ’ s prior experiences, a common language and a shared vision, a framework for prioritizing actions, a way to define what improvement means for your organization.

The ensuing debate reached an impasse as awareness grew that the very term ‘ docetism ’ like ‘ gnosticism ’ was difficult to define within the religio-historical framework of the debate.

Modern communist states, which the People's Republic of China forms an example of, therefore prefer to define a framework of permissible, or even encouraged, criticism and self-determination by inferiors, which would not affect the major state doctrine, but allows the use of professional and expertise-driven knowledge and the use of it for the decision-making persons in office.

Taiwan's incorporation into the Japanese political orbit brought Taiwanese aborigines into contact with a new colonial structure, determined to define and locate indigenous people within the framework of a new, multi-ethnic empire.

This system encompasses both public, TAFE, and private providers in a national training framework consisting of the Australian Quality Training Framework, Australian Qualifications Framework and Industry Training Packages which define the assessment standards for the different vocational qualifications.

Responsibility for organisation devolved upon the Lord President of the Council, Herbert Morrison, the deputy leader of the Labour Party, who appointed a Great Exhibition Centenary Committee, consisting of civil servants, who were to define the framework of the Festival and to liaise between government departments and the festival organisation.

Even with such combinations, this framework is not complete: some countries define designs for usage contexts not expressible in this scheme such as air force ensigns ( distinct from war flags or war ensigns, flown as the national flag at air bases ; for example, see Royal Air Force Ensign ) and civil air ensigns.

Their design framework known as the Design Genetic Matrix determines a set of competences in 4 key genes that are identified to define the make up of designers and communicate to a wide audience what they do.

RFC 4745 and RFC 5025 define a framework for authorization policies controlling access to application-specific data.

One can define the cokernel in the general framework of category theory.

Unlike the symbolic interactionist framework, the many theories derived from symbolic interactionism, such as role theory and the versions of Identity Theory developed by Stryker, and Burke and colleagues, clearly define concepts and the relationships between them in a given context, thus allowing for the opportunity to develop and test hypotheses.

The nonadiabatic coupling can be used to define a loop integral, analogous to the a Wigner loop ( 1974 ) in field theory, developed independently for molecular framework by M. Baer ( 1975, 1980, 2000 ).

" Food sovereignty " is a term coined by members of Via Campesina in 1996 to refer to a policy framework advocated by a number of farmers, peasants, pastoralists, fisherfolk, indigenous peoples, women, rural youth and environmental organizations, namely the claimed " right " of peoples to define their own food, agriculture, livestock and fisheries systems, in contrast to having cross-border trade in food.

At an international level, two framework documents jointly produced by UNESCO and the IFLA ( International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions ) developed two framework documents that laid the foundations in helping define the educational role to be played by school libraries: the School library manifesto ( 1999 ),.

Furthermore, they can be used to define an optimization framework as proposed by Zhao, Merriman and Osher in 1996.

The German initiative S20 has been established in 2007 in order to define a stable framework for the sponsorship industry in Germany.

Mack helped define the framework of landmark legislation to allow the financial industry to respond appropriately to the increasing demands of an aggressive global marketplace.

The framework does not define a methodology for an architecture.

In this way, the framework will define a manageable and results-driven approach for LAC to follow in the upcoming years.

In logic, a logical framework provides a means to define ( or present ) a logic as a signature in a higher-order type theory in such a way that provability of a formula in the original logic reduces to a type inhabitation problem in the framework type theory.

The OASIS Security Services Technical Committee ( SSTC ), which met for the first time in January 2001, was chartered " to define an XML framework for exchanging authentication and authorization information.

The derived category is a natural framework to define and study derived functors.

* Double cantilever beam tests ( DCB ) measure the mode I fracture resistance of adhesives in a fracture mechanics framework.

Crime in the social and legal framework is the set of facts or assumptions ( causes, consequences and objectives ) that are part of a case in which they were committed acts punishable under criminal law, and the application of which depends on the agent of a sentence or security measure criminal.

The human potential refers to the fifth dimension of the framework and represents a central measure of a state ’ s power.

Within the framework of the laws of physics as we understand them today, for times less than one Planck time apart, we can neither measure nor detect any change.

The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health ( ICF ) is a framework to measure health and ability by illustrating how these components impact one ’ s function.

The information retrieval community has emphasized the use of test collections and benchmark tasks to measure topical relevance, starting with the Cranfield Experiments of the early 1960s and culminating in the TREC evaluations that continue to this day as the main evaluation framework for information retrieval research.

The legal framework for unfree labor was set up in 1950, when a decree passed by the Great National Assembly introduced it as a measure for the " reeducation of hostile elements ", and when the new Labor Code allowed the executive to requisition workforce for various political purposes.

Accordingly, Weight Watchers is generally compatible with other diet approaches and / or food intake restrictions ( e. g., the paleolithic diet and South Beach diet ), provided participants use the Weight Watchers framework to measure and limit the quantity of food consumed while using the other diet plan to dictate the range of acceptable food choices.

In 1970, Solovay demonstrated that the existence of a non-measurable set for Lebesgue measure is not provable within the framework of Zermelo – Fraenkel set theory in the absence of the Axiom of Choice, by showing that ( assuming the consistency of an inaccessible cardinal ) there is a model of ZF, called Solovay's model, in which countable choice holds, every set is Lebesgue measurable and in which the full axiom of choice fails.

The eight measure sequence is repeated in the intro, for each verse and in the outro, providing the harmonic framework for the entire extended dual guitar solo at the end of the song.

They also show how to make conceptualization and operationalization more concrete by demonstrating how to form conceptual framework tables that are tied to the literature and operationalization tables that lay out the specifics of how to operationalize the conceptual framework ( measure the concepts ).

Proponents for the MDGs argue that while some goals are difficult to measure, that there is still validity in setting goals as they provide a political and operational framework to achieving the goals.

On the Brück aerial testing facility there are two 54 metre high wood framework towers built in 1963, made without any metallic parts and used for mounting aerials to measure their characteristics.

The Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System ™ ( STARS ) is a framework for universities to measure their sustainability performance.

He argued that under the framework established in Ex parte Quirin and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, President Bush's decision to try Hamdan before a military commission " is entitled to a heavy measure of deference ," inasmuch as Congress had authorized the President to use all necessary and appropriate force to prevent future acts of terrorism when it passed the Authorization for Use of Military Force.

The PRM is a standardized framework to measure the performance of major IT investments and their contribution to program performance.

Historically, mainframes acquired their name in part because of their substantial size, and because of requirements for specialized heating, ventilation, and air conditioning ( HVAC ), and electrical power, essentially posing a " main framework " of dedicated infrastructure.

Cable theory provides the theoretical framework behind the most " simple " method for modelling the flow of electrical currents along passive neural fibres.

He used electrical engineering concepts as well as the studies of neuroscience to formulate his framework.