* Technology: In evaluating technology, key factors include alignment with the company ’ s business process strategy and goals, including the ability to deliver the right data to the right employees and sufficient ease of adoption and use.

:: A parallel database, run by a parallel DBMS, seeks to improve performance through parallelization for tasks such as loading data, building indexes and evaluating queries.

Fascist propaganda of this sort, Adorno wrote, " simply takes people for what they are: genuine children of today ’ s standardized mass culture who have been robbed to a great extent of their autonomy and spontaneity " The result of these labors, the 1950 study The Authoritarian Personality was pioneering in its combination of quantitative and qualitative methods of collecting and evaluating data as well as its development of the F-scale.

From this point of view, the hypothesis that " All ravens are black " is not accepted gradually, as its probability increases towards one when more and more observations are made, but is accepted in a single action as the result of evaluating the data which has already been collected.

Anthropogenic emissions can be monitored by evaluating data of tropospheric NO2 and SO2.

The basis of some techniques is either ( 1 ) to explicitly penalize overly complex models, or ( 2 ) to test the model's ability to generalize by evaluating its performance on a set of data not used for training, which is assumed to approximate the typical unseen data that a model will encounter.

* Energy benchmarking-process of collecting, analysing and relating energy performance data of comparable activities with the purpose of evaluating and comparing performance between or within entities.

' They use action reflection cycles of expressing concerns ( saying why you are concerned in relation to values ), imagining possibilities in developing action plans, acting and gathering data, evaluating the influences of action, modifying concerns, ideas and action in the light of the evaluations.

Despite his strong belief in the value of collecting and evaluating statistical data – he saw it as one of a “ socially progressive nation ”’ s duties-he wasn ’ t able to convince federal or cantonal politicians of its importance.

This can be accomplished through polling a group of people, evaluating a subset of data obtained about a group of people, or by observation and statistical analysis of a set of data that relates to people and their behaviors.

Because researchers evaluating CSCW systems often bypass quantitative data in favor of naturalistic inquiry, results can be largely subjective due to the complexity and nuances of organizations themselves.

A classification model with some parameter vector is said to shatter a set of data points if, for all assignments of labels to those points, there exists a such that the model makes no errors when evaluating that set of data points.

For example, it handles law enforcement compliance ( evaluating and responding to data requests from police and governmental agencies ) for telecommunications carriers, including Cricket Wireless.

Effective strategic systems can only be accomplished, of course, if the capabilities are in place for the routine basic work of gathering data, evaluating possible equipment and software, and managing the routine reporting of project status.

In many cases the inequality indices mentioned above are computed from such segment data without evaluating the inequalities within the segments.

The subcategorisation of Category B, while offering additional information that may be of benefit in evaluating the risk vs benefit, presents its own problem of data reliability-since human data is lacking or inadequate, the subcategorisation is based on animal data.

This is accomplished by identifying the data elements that contribute significantly to each impact category, evaluating the sensitivity of these significant data elements, assessing the completeness and consistency of the study, and drawing conclusions and recommendations based on a clear understanding of how the LCA was conducted and the results were developed.

Later, in a letter to the readers, the editors of Analytical Chemistry published their concerns about the faulty experimental design of the study, and warned readers to “ use caution in evaluating the conclusions drawn in the paper .” Furthermore, after reviewing the research data of the study, and other pertinent literature, the U. S. FDA reported that the data do not support the findings presented ; that the platinum used, in new-model breast-implant devices, likely is not ionized, and therefore is not a significant risk to the health of the women.

Proceeding in this way up the table we extract the complete optimal policy and, if it is desired, we can check on Af by evaluating Af at the last stage.

When evaluating a coin, the following — often subjective — factors may be considered: 1 ) " eye appeal " or the aesthetic interest of the coin ; 2 ) dents on the rim ; 3 ) unsightly scratches or other blemishes on the surface of the coin ; 4 ) luster ; 5 ) toning ; 6 ) level of detail retained, where a coin with full details obviously is valued higher than one with worn details.

As with other branches of statistics, experimental design is pursued using both frequentist and Bayesian approaches: In evaluating statistical procedures like experimental designs, frequentist statistics studies the sampling distribution while Bayesian statistics updates a probability distribution on the parameter space.

Kaiser Permanente did not change its methods of evaluating whether or not new therapies were too " experimental " to be covered until it was successfully sued twice: once for delaying in vitro fertilization treatments for two years after the courts determined that scientific evidence of efficacy and safety had reached the " reasonable " stage ; and in another case where Kaiser refused to pay for liver transplantation in infants when it had already been shown to be effective in adults, on the basis that use in infants was still " experimental.

These " peers of the accused " are responsible for listening to a dispute, evaluating the evidence presented, deciding on the facts, and making a decision in accordance with the rules of law and their jury instructions.

:* Daphnia spp., small planktonic crustaceans, highly sensitive to pollution, used for evaluating environmental toxicity of chemicals on aquatic invertebrates.

:* Tubifex tubifex, an oligochaeta used for evaluating environmental toxicity of chemicals on aquatic and terrestrial worms.

A neurologist will begin their interaction with a patient by taking a comprehensive medical history, and then perform a physical examination focusing on evaluating the nervous system.

What distinguishes these tasks from other potential and actual NLP tasks is not only the volume of research devoted to them but the fact that for each one there is typically a well-defined problem setting, a standard metric for evaluating the task, standard corpora on which the task can be evaluated, and competitions devoted to the specific task.

An even more important reason to distinguish between polynomials and polynomial functions is that many operations on polynomials ( like Euclidean division ) require looking at what a polynomial is composed of as an expression rather than evaluating it at some constant value for X.

In a May 2005, discussion on the newsgroup comp. lang. ruby, Matsumoto attempted to distance Ruby from POLA, explaining that because any design choice will be surprising to someone, he uses a personal standard in evaluating surprise.

In examples provided in this section, the notation "===> result " is used to indicate the result of evaluating the expression on the immediately preceding line.

Focuses here are on speech acts ( e. g. whether one person tends to ask questions and the other speaker tends to answer ), who chooses the topic, turn management, and how capable both speakers are of evaluating the subject.

Research projects may range from assessing the effects of toxic pollutants on the environment to evaluating how the human immune system responds to chemical compounds within pharmaceutical drugs.

Since then, UC campuses have been evaluating students under " comprehensive review ", based on these 14 factors:

The corporation also offers advice to companies on making decisions, evaluating their impact on the environment and society, and being responsible.

Cost accounting is regarded as the process of collecting, analysing, summarising and evaluating various alternative courses of action involving costs and advising the management on the most appropriate course of action based on the cost efficiency and capability of the management.

In 1990, Congress asked the U. S. Department of Education ( ED ) to compile a list of available programs on beginning reading instruction, evaluating each in terms of the effectiveness of its phonics component.

United Nations publishes Human Development Report on human development in different nations with the objective of evaluating the rate of human capital formation in these nations.

While evaluating a position strategically, a player must take into account such factors as the relative value of the pieces on the board, pawn structure, king safety, position of pieces, and control of key squares and groups of squares ( e. g. diagonals, open files, individual squares ).

In England the trial by jury developed considerable freedom in evaluating evidence and condemning on circumstantial evidence, making torture to extort confessions unnecessary.

The basal rate for a particular time period is determined by fasting while periodically evaluating the blood sugar level.

Of the two major approaches to diagnosis, the " kinetic " approach involves evaluating production, destruction and loss, and the " morphologic " approach groups anemia by red blood cell size.

The mean corpuscular volume ( MCV ) and the red cell distribution width ( RDW ) can be quite helpful in evaluating a lower-than-normal hematocrit, because it can help the clinician determine whether blood loss is chronic or acute.

Ultrasound of the abdomen and blood tests evaluating liver function are often performed to rule out metastasis to the liver.

Physicians and researchers are making significant progress evaluating the safety and efficacy of umbilical cord blood stem cells for therapeutic uses far beyond their uses for cancers and blood disorders.

This research also lends support for the pioneering clinical work at Duke University, focused on evaluating the impact of autologous cord blood infusions in children diagnosed with cerebral palsy and other forms of brain injury.

The hematologist, when first evaluating a case of MGUS, will usually perform a skeletal survey ( X-rays of the proximal skeleton ), check the blood for hypercalcemia and deterioration in renal function, check the urine for Bence Jones protein and perform a bone marrow biopsy.

This research also lends support for the pioneering clinical work at Duke University, focused on evaluating the impact of autologous cord blood infusions in children diagnosed with cerebral palsy and other forms of brain injury.

Physicians and researchers have begun to make progress evaluating the safety and efficacy of umbilical cord blood stem cells for certain therapeutic uses beyond blood cancers and genetic diseases of the blood.