Competitive evaluations

The speech-recognition research community has long adopted a policy of competitive evaluation whereby different research groups run their systems on the same test data and report results. In this way, performance differences between systems can easily be seen, and the competitive nature of the evaluation programme has been credited with driving progress forwards. 

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Rossiter SL, Langwell K, Wan TTH, et al. 1989. Patient satisfaction among elderly enrollees and disenrollees in Medicare health maintenance organizations Results from the National Medicare Competition Evaluation. JAMA 262 57. 

Understand strategic plans that affect the supply chain. Review strategie initiatives and competitive evaluations. 

The monitoring results are evaluated and decisions concerning necessary changes in the supply chain configuration are made. These decisions are based on an assessment of the current supply chain situation (Bowersox et al. 2012). The situation assessment includes internal review of supply chain structure and performance, assessment of market and competition, evaluation of the relationship between supply chain partners, and assessment of technological factors. This situation assessment is further refined during the initialization step. 

More national and international standardization procedures for mercury porosimetry and the derivation of pore size distributions from adsorption isotherms are in preparation. Regarding the weakness of the two-parameter BET model for surface area determination in addition the three-parameter BET equation or improved approximations [26] should be considered. Competitive evaluation methods, like the method of Dubinin, Horwath-Kawazoe, Kaganer and Radushkevich are being discussed. 

Material Recommendations—Get recommendations on material candidates. Seek out a wide variety of sources end users to provide insight and feedback on their feel toward existing products and/or what you re designing, lessons learned from prior design teams and competitive evaluations, other insightful sources. 

Pig. 4. Photo dissociation of ArHCl. Left hand side the number of force field evaluations per unit time. Right hand side the number of Fast-Fourier-transforms per unit time. Dotted line adaptive Verlet with the Chebyshev approximation for the quantum propagation. Dash-dotted line with the Lanczos iteration. Solid line stepsize controlling scheme based on PICKABACK. If the FFTs are the most expensive operations, PiCKABACK-like schemes are competitive, and the Lanczos iteration is significantly cheaper than the Chebyshev approximation. 

Galanthamine (23) is an alkaloid extracted from the common snowdrop Galanthus nivalis. This compound is a long-acting, competitive AChE inhibitor which appears to be somewhat more specific for acetylcholinesterase than plasma butyrylcholinesterase (132). It is well tolerated during long-term treatment (133) and is being evaluated clinically for AD (134). 

The first commercial plant to use CYANEX 272 became operational in 1985. An additional three plants were constmcted between 1985 and 1989. Of the four, one is in South America and three in Europe. An additional three plants have been built two in Europe (1994) and one in North America (1995). Approximately 50% of the Western world s cobalt is processed using CYANEX 272. Both high purity salts and electrolytic cobalt metal are recovered from solutions ranging in composition from 30 g/L each of cobalt and nickel to 0.2 g/L Co, 95 g/L Ni Operating companies usually regard use of CYANEX 272 as confidential for competitive reasons and identities cannot be disclosed. CYANEX 272 is being evaluated on the pilot-plant scale in many additional projects involving the recovery of cobalt and other metals. 

Evaluations have been conducted using deer, a multiple-choice preference-testing apparatus, and tetramethylthiuram disulfide [137-26-8] (TMTD) (29) or the fungicide thiram as a standard repeUent for competitive tests with repeUent-treated food (78). 

BicucuUine [485-49-4] (8) is another analeptic compound known to act by competitively antagonizing GABA at its receptor (9). There is no evidence that bicucuUine has been evaluated in humans. Several other compounds, such as the steroid R5135 (10) or the arylarninopytidazines SR 95103 (11) and SR 95531 (12), appear to antagonize GABA competitively in a manner similar to that of bicucuUine. 

Both prototypal questions related illustrate the need for a successhil technical service professional to have a strong understanding of the customer s apphcations and processes, within proper intellectual property considerations. This need for a thorough understanding is not always straightforward. A common example of the complications that can arise is provided from the paint (qv) industry (11). If, for instance, a calcium carbonate suppHer would like a paint manufacturer to use their material versus a competitive one, the onus is on the suppHer to show that the material can be successfully used in the paint formula of interest. However, many such formulas are held as proprietary. The technical service professional therefore does not know the components of the paint. This would lead to an unworkable situation from an evaluation standpoint save for the fact that the paint company may supply a miHbase or other intermediate form of the paint to allow a proper comparison of carbonates to be carried out. Thus mutual benefits can result and no loss of proprietary information occur. 

Equally important, the contractor s cost-estimation team will have established a sharply honed, systematic approach including all the correct checklists, forms, and report formats designed to preclude oversights. The team will have developed the discipline, as a result of competitive bidding, to produce the kind of final report that fits in correctly with any type of economic evaluation. 

Prior to the publication of ISO 9000, several nations had developed national quality system standards, with many used only in the procurement of military equipment. With the emergence of the NATO Quality Control System standards in 1973, the Quality Panel of the UK Society of Motor Manufacturers set out to develop an equivalent standard for non-military applications. The result was BS 4891, which was published in 1972. In 1974 this was followed by BS 5179 with the title Operation and Evaluation of Quality Assurance Systems. However, BS 5179 was intended only as a guide and it was not until 1979, with the publication of BS 5750, that major purchasers in the UK had a standard that could be invoked in contracts. A certification scheme was eventually established in 1983, following the UK government s white paper on competitiveness ... 

Evaluating relative reactivity at different positions by competitive displacement in polychloroazines requires the unjustified assumption that the chloro groups have a negligible or equal effect on each other. In a polychloro compound bearing a different kind of substituent, the activation or deactivation of the chloro groups is generally neither equal nor negligible, as already demonstrated. 

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