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Mathematics and logic

One set contained in another

In set theory a set is included in another when every one of its members also belongs to the second, written as A being a subset of B: the smaller collection is contained in the larger, and the relation orders sets by containment. George Boole's 1854 An Investigation of the Laws of Thought treated the statement that all of one class falls within another as a basic relation of his algebra of logic, and Giuseppe Peano's 1889 Arithmetices principia gave the containment relation between classes its formal symbol. The referent is an abstract relation between collections, either holding or not for a given pair, and it has nothing to do with a droplet sealed in a rock, a body lodged in a cell, or a person made to feel part of a group.[1][2]

Unit
A relation between two sets: A is included in B when every member of A is also a member of B
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Established by proof that every element of one set belongs to the other, not by measurement

Mineralogy and geology

Foreign matter trapped in a crystal

A mineral inclusion is a small body of another material, a solid crystal, a droplet of liquid, or a bubble of gas, that was trapped inside a growing crystal and sealed there as it formed. Henry Clifton Sorby's 1858 On the microscopical structure of crystals first read these trapped droplets as records of the conditions under which a mineral grew, founding the study of fluid inclusions, and Edwin Roedder's 1984 Fluid Inclusions made their analysis a standard tool of geochemistry. The referent is a physical pocket of foreign matter frozen inside a mineral, examined under a microscope, and it is unrelated to a relation between sets, an aggregate inside a cell, or belonging in a workplace.[3][4]

Unit
A single pocket of trapped solid, liquid, or gas sealed inside a host crystal
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Studied by microscopy and by heating or freezing the trapped fluid to read the temperature and pressure at which the host crystal formed

Cell biology and pathology

A dense aggregate body inside a cell

A cellular inclusion body is a discrete, densely packed mass that forms inside a cell, often an aggregate of viral particles or of misfolded protein, visible under the microscope as a distinct body in the nucleus or cytoplasm. Edwin V. Cowdry's 1934 The problem of intranuclear inclusions in virus diseases gave the first systematic account and classification of these bodies in infected cells, and Ron Kopito's 2000 Aggresomes, inclusion bodies and protein aggregation extended the term to the aggregates that cells build when they cannot clear misfolded protein. The referent is a material structure that accumulates within a single cell, located and counted by staining, and it differs from a relation between sets, a droplet trapped in a rock, or the inclusion of people in a group.[5][6]

Unit
A single aggregated body within one cell, sited in the nucleus or the cytoplasm
Recovery means
Some are cleared by cellular degradation such as autophagy, while others accumulate and persist
Measured by
Identified by histological staining and microscopy, and by biochemical assay of the aggregated protein or viral content

Organizational behavior

An employee's felt acceptance in a group

In organizational research inclusion is the degree to which an employee feels accepted as a full member of a work group while keeping what makes them distinct, able both to belong and to remain themselves. Michal Mor Barak and David Cherin's 1998 A tool to expand organizational understanding of workforce diversity built one of the first measures of the inclusion and exclusion an individual experiences at work, and Lynn Shore and colleagues' 2011 Inclusion and diversity in work groups drew the scattered work together into a model defining inclusion through belonging and uniqueness. The referent is a person's experienced standing within a group, reported on survey scales, and it is not a relation between sets, a droplet sealed in a crystal, or a body lodged in a cell.[7][8]

Unit
One employee's experienced degree of acceptance and belonging within a work group
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Assessed with self-report survey scales of perceived inclusion and exclusion at work

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References

  1. Boole, G. (1854). An investigation of the laws of thought. Walton and Maberly.
  2. Peano, G. (1889). Arithmetices principia, nova methodo exposita. Bocca.
  3. Sorby, H. C. (1858). On the microscopical structure of crystals, indicating the origin of minerals and rocks. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 14(1-2), 453–500. https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.JGS.1858.014.01-02.44
  4. Roedder, E. (1984). Fluid inclusions (Reviews in Mineralogy, Vol. 12). Mineralogical Society of America. ISBN 9780939950164
  5. Cowdry, E. V. (1934). The problem of intranuclear inclusions in virus diseases. Archives of Pathology, 18, 527–542.
  6. Kopito, R. R. (2000). Aggresomes, inclusion bodies and protein aggregation. Trends in Cell Biology, 10(12), 524–530. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0962-8924(00)01852-3
  7. Mor-Barak, M. E., & Cherin, D. A. (1998). A tool to expand organizational understanding of workforce diversity: Exploring a measure of inclusion-exclusion. Administration in Social Work, 22(1), 47–64. https://doi.org/10.1300/J147v22n01_04
  8. Shore, L. M., Randel, A. E., Chung, B. G., Dean, M. A., Holcombe Ehrhart, K., & Singh, G. (2011). Inclusion and diversity in work groups: A review and model for future research. Journal of Management, 37(4), 1262–1289. https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206310385943

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