The service sector consists of the " soft " parts of the economy, i. e. activities where people offer their knowledge and time to improve productivity, performance, potential, and sustainability.

The CMMI approach consists of models, appraisal methods, and training courses that have been proven to improve process performance.

Occasionally a bottleneck is used on only the highest two strings of a guitar in standard tuning, usually in live performance to introduce just a short passage of bottleneck effect into a piece which otherwise consists mainly of guitar played in standard fashion.

The Otsutome or daily service consists of the performance of the seated service and, optionally, the practice of a chapter or two of the 12 chapters of Teodori ( lit.

Practice of Falun Gong consists of two features: performance of the exercises, and the refinement of one ’ s xinxing ( moral character, or temperament ).

One way of achieving this computational performance gain consists in solving a simpler problem whose solution is also a solution to the more complex problem.

The ES as a whole thus consists of 1280 arithmetic processors with 20 TB of main memory and the theoretical performance of 131Tflops.

The final segment consists of a live musical performance, a comedian performing a stand-up routine, or another guest interview.

The government of the Village of Fox Point consists of a village board, and its committees, which monitor aspects of village government performance.

It was mostly filmed in NBC's Studio 8-H and consists of Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony in a performance of Verdi's Overture to La Forza del Destino and Verdi's " Hymn of the Nations " ( Inno delle nazioni ), which contains national anthems of England, France, and Italy ( the World War I allied nations ), to which Toscanini added the Soviet " Internationale " and " The Star Spangled Banner ".

A black box theater ( or experimental theater ) consists of a simple, somewhat unadorned performance space, usually a large square room with black walls and a flat floor.

It consists of the following performance and related facilities:

The objective production method consists of direct, but limited, measures such as sales figures, production numbers, the electronic performance monitoring of data entry workers, etc.

* 1974-AMeDAS network, developed by Japan Meteorological Agency used for gathering regional weather data and verifying forecast performance, begun operation on November 1, the system consists of about 1, 300 stations with automatic observation equipment.

Today the league consists of 12 teams and uses a performance based method of scoring.

It consists of five parts: the monitoring of performance of the survival processes ( 1 ), their management by recursive application of regulation ( 2 ), homeostatic operational control ( 3 ) and development ( 4 ) which produce maintenance of identity ( 5 ) under environmental perturbation.

* P ( performance ) — the musical selection consists of a performance that is:

A drum and bugle corps performance consists of the playing of music, usually accompanied by marching on parade, in field-drill formation ( s ) or in a standstill performance.

Business performance management consists of a set of management and analytic processes, supported by technology, that enable businesses to define strategic goals and then measure and manage performance against those goals.

The Research and Technology Park is a site of innovation and technology, residing to the west of the north area of campus, and consists of entities that research and develop nano technologies, RFID, polymers and coatings, high performance computing, and others.

A typical performance consists of the following elements pīshdarāmad ( a rhythmic prelude which sets the mood ), darāmad ( rhythmic free motif ), āvāz ( improvised rhythmic-free singing ), taṣnīf ( rhythmic accompanied by singing, an ode ), Chahārmeżrāb ( rhythmic music but rhythmic-free or no singing ), reng ( closing rhythmic composition, a dance tune ).

For instance, low-end versions of complex architectures ( i. e. using less hardware ) could lead to situations where it was possible to improve performance by not using a complex instruction ( such as a procedure call or enter instruction ), but instead using a sequence of simpler instructions.

A direct evaluation of either summation ( above ) requires operations for an output sequence of length N. An indirect method, using transforms, can take advantage of the efficiency of the fast Fourier transform ( FFT ) to achieve much better performance.

The song was not used in the movie, nor was the band, the only band not to receive a call-back to perform live for the film's " Battle of the Bands " sequence, perhaps due to the fact that the Germs ' chaotic Roxy performance had featured an unscripted, full-on food fight.

Performance testing technology employs one or more PCs or Unix servers to act as injectors – each emulating the presence of numbers of users and each running an automated sequence of interactions ( recorded as a script, or as a series of scripts to emulate different types of user interaction ) with the host whose performance is being tested.

One cannot look at a sequence of moves and say, " That performance is 2039.

Cineaste also credited Beban for his intense performance, commenting on the fight sequence in which Beban's character " seethes with murderous determination " as the camera focuses on his face in an extreme close-up: " Beban's sudden transformation from amiability to wrath recalls the first glimpse of Spencer Tracy after nearly being lynched in Fritz Lang's Fury.

The audience at the first performance applauded at the end of a fight sequence and again at the end of the picture .< ref >" Para.

If a large parallel job running on 640 PNs reads from / writes to one disk installed in a PN, each PN accesses to the disk in sequence and performance degrades terribly.

Hidden Markov models have been used to produce probability scores for a family of possible multiple sequence alignments for a given query set ; although early HMM-based methods produced underwhelming performance, later applications have found them especially effective in detecting remotely related sequences because they are less susceptible to noise created by conservative or semiconservative substitutions.

* Newman appeared on the season two finale of the sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun, accompanying the character Harry Solomon's performance of " Life Has Been Good To Me " on piano in a dream sequence.

A defining characteristic of a groovebox is the ability for the performer to alter both the sequence and the sound parameters in real time, without interruption of the performance.

To further complicate matters, in process technologies such as silicon on insulator ( SOI ), devices display hysteresis — a circuit's performance is affected by the events of the past, so without carefully targeted tests it is possible for a particular sequence of state changes to work at overclocked rates in one situation but not another even if the voltage and temperature are the same.

The remote control may be manual, via a switch console, or computer controlled according to a pre-programmed sequence and / or a sequence that tracks the live performance via stage cues.

In the game, players have to prepare the Spice Girls for a live television concert by doing such things as teaching them the dance steps they must do for the performance, choosing the song they will perform, and the sequence in which the song's lyrics will be sung.

Kool Herc instead originated the idea of creating a sequence for his own purposes, introducing the idea of the DJ as the " feature " of parties, whose performance on any given night would be examined critically by the crowd on both a technical and entertainment level.

The sequence ends with a Broadway-style performance of various people out in a street singing and waving.

In his performances, he often used the I Ching in order to determine the sequence of his dances and, often, dancers were not told until the night of the performance.

Activity analysis has been defined as a process of dissecting an activity into its component parts and task sequence in order to identify its inherent properties and the skills required for its performance, thus allowing the therapist to evaluate its therapeutic potential

Various other aborted dinners ensue, with interruptions including the arrival of a group of French army officers who join the dinner, or the revelation that a French colonel's dining room is in fact a stage set in a theatrical performance, during a dream sequence.

Some tied into the Yamaha FM chip to simulate instruments, some daughterboards of samples had very different sound qualities ; meaning that no single sequence performance would be accurate to every other General Midi device.

Providing a coordinated sequence of performance and study opportunities for young artists, the San Francisco Opera Center includes the " Merola Opera Program ", " Adler Fellowship Program ", " Showcase Series ", " Brown Bag Opera ", " Opera Center Singers ", " Schwabacher Recitals ", and various Education Programs.

Gere plays a reclusive character called Billy, retreating from the world in an American pastoral, referencing Dylan's interest in American folk mythology and his performance in Sam Peckinpah's 1973 film Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid ; the sequence also alludes to Dylan's period of exile living in Woodstock in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

In the fall of 1937, four couples from Whitey's Lindy Hoppers, a Lindy Hop performance group based at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem, New York, traveled to Hollywood, California, to perform a Lindy Hop sequence for a Judy Garland movie called Everybody Sings.