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STRUCTURED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having definite and highly organized structure
Example:
a structured environment
Classified under:
Also:
organized (formed into a structured or coherent whole, particularly on a large scale)
Antonym:
unstructured (lacking definite structure or organization)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Resembling a living organism in organization or development
Example:
society as an integrated whole
Synonyms:
integrated; structured
Classified under:
Similar:
organic (being or relating to or derived from or having properties characteristic of living organisms)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb structure
Context examples:
“Nature is an amazing architect. Bamboo is structured in a really clever way,” said Darshil Shah, a researcher in Cambridge University’s Department of Architecture, who led the study.
(Visualising heat flow in bamboo could help design more energy-efficient and fire-safe buildings, University of Cambridge)
A terminology concept modeled in a structured and formally well-understood way using logic-based semantics which can be given by a translation into first-order predicate logic.
(Description Logic Concept, NCI Thesaurus)
This version of the instrument contains all 21 questions or types of symptoms associated with depression such as anxiety, mood, insomnia, and somatic symptoms experienced within the past week and is completed during a semi-structured interview.
(Hamilton Depression Rating Scale 21-Item Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)
A standardized and structured interview originally developed and published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research by Marshal Folstein, Susan Folstein and Paul McHugh in 1975 which is used to evaluate an individual's cognitive aptitude and track any cognitive changes.
(Mini-Mental State Examination Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)
However this too represented multiple distinct aspects of the semantics of study protocol, each of which have now been split into separate classes:- The StudyProtocol class represents the content of the study protocol and can exist even before the information is put into document form. - The details of the structured plan for the study protocol are represented by the StudyProtocolVersion, so named because any aspect of the definition can change from version to version.
(Clinical Study Protocol, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
From earlier studies, we know that the solar system became structured such that the 'dry' materials were separated from the 'wet' materials: the so-called 'carbonaceous' meteorites, which are relatively rich in water, come from the outer solar system, whereas the drier 'non-carbonaceous' meteorites come from the inner solar system.
(Moon’s Formation Brought Water to Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
He and his colleagues argue that direct evidence in the form of teeth, bones and artifacts associated with the burial, as well as inferences from the evidence as to what time of year the children died and were buried, could lead to new thinking about how early societies were structured, how they viewed death and the importance of rituals associated with death and what stresses they faced in trying to survive.
(Archaeologists discover remains of Ice-Age infants in Alaska, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
A discrete, structured plan (that persists over time) of a formal investigation to assess the utility, impact, pharmacological, physiological, and/or psychological effects of a particular treatment, procedure, drug, device, biologic, food product, cosmetic, care plan, or subject characteristic.
(Clinical Study Protocol, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
