While the talk test is a good measure of exercise intensity for casual gym-goers, it may not be effective for elite athletes. For people with advanced fitness goals (like, say, those going for a third Olympic medal), being able to carry on a casual conversation may mean exercise is not intense enough.
In keeping with this thematic definition, Shoemaker defines an. integrated curriculum as. ...education that is organized in such a way that it cuts across subject-. matter lines, bringing together various aspects of the curriculum into. meaningful association to focus upon broad areas of study.
In an IT context, integration refers to the end result of a process that aims to stitch together different, often disparate, subsystems so that the data contained in each becomes part of a larger, more comprehensive system that, ideally, quickly and easily shares data when needed.