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3. How frequently do indexers assign appropriate MeSH terms or descriptors to represent the terms used by authors in titles and abstracts?
These descriptors of health care quality from the recent Institute of Medicine report1 should be applied to all patients with alcohol-related problems.
To understand the trends in transcriptional response within and between the two organs studied, genes were annotated using GO classifications; a dynamic, structured, yet precisely defined system which characterizes genes based on defined categories of molecular function, biological process, and cellular component [ 28 ] . Since the GO classifications contain several thousand descriptors, many differentially expressed genes had a unique annotation.
The multidisciplinary team identified MeSH terms, descriptors, and potentially related keywords for these four key concepts [see Table 1].
Especially interesting are the descriptors that are taken over from very different semantic domains, such as words that describe personality and character: aggressive, charming, diffident, honest, feminine, masculine . How can these descriptions be meaningful?