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This rather low recovery factor may be boosted by implementing secondary recovery techniques, particularly water Injection, or gas injection, with the aim of maintaining reservoir pressure and prolonging both plateau and decline periods. The decision to implement these techniques (only one of which would be selected) Is both technical and economic. Technical considerations would be the external supply of gas, and the... 

In my case, I had more than just the "t" to fix. I had to de-pro-gram my stubbornness, over-sensitivity to criticism, self-consciousness, and boost my self-esteem. Dr. Walker was probably pra dng that my "sarcasm" would find it s way to the exit, as well. Luckily, at the age of just fourteen, I listened. I thought about the simple risk vs. reward system for making a decision. 

The earlier work on chloroacetone (18,19) already indicated that trialkyl amines were superior to other bases for this reaction. Therefore the decision to use trialkyl amines to scavenge HCl was already determined by the literature precedent. However, when compared to the tributyl amine, smaller amines might be preferred since they could boost the reactor productivity by reducing the volume. Unfortunately, for unknown reasons, the process did not work as well with the simpler amines. Both tripropyl amine and triethyl amine displayed both lower rates and lower selectivity for methyl pivaloyl acetate. (See Table 6.)... 

Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) A program introduced in 1983 to help kids resist the temptation of drugs by boosting self-esteem, decision-making ability, and the ability to resist peer pressure. Experts differ about the efficacy of the program. 

Boosting the experience. If resistance remains high, the experience may become repetitious, leading up to a crucial point but without a breakthrough. The user vacillates—hot and cold, back and forth, endlessly affixed to the same treadmill. He or she cannot make decisions, and has been through all this many times before. 

Despite this discouraging situation, the 1970s witnessed a constant improvement and adaptation of manufaciuring techniques. This included improvements which were often decisive in the economic context of petroleum products yields were boosted and energy consumption reduced. The area which saw the most significant development was that of catalysis, whose performance was constantly improved thanks to advances in the knowledge of their action mechanisms. 

Performance Enhancement Healthcare professionals at times are on duty for long stretches without sleep. Medication, some feel, boosts their performance to a level necessary to make split-second, lifesaving decisions. 

Drucker H, Cortes C. Boosting decision trees. In Advances in neural information processing systems. Cambridge MIT Press, 1996. p. 479-85. 

To increase the predictivity of decision tree classification models, statistical tools such as boosting [62] have been employed in the context of decision tree classification. The application of this technique in predicting structure-property relationships showed to significantly increase the accuracy and robustness of the obtained decision tree models however, this is at the cost of comprehensiveness of the model and the computational speed of model generation [56]. 

Freund Y, Schapire RE. A decision-theoretic generalization of on-line learning and an application to boosting. J Comput Syst Sci 1997 55 119-139. 

Some healthcare professionals such as interns and residents are on duty for 36 hours at a stretch during which they make many critical decisions. Some feel they need a boost to maintain a high performance level especially after being on duty for so many hours without sleep. 

The models of tree-based methods can be improved by ensemble methods, where several different decision trees are aggregated to an ensemble and the shghtly differing classification results are averaged. Currently, the most popular ensemble methods are bagging and boosting. 

Application of ensemble methods implies variation of several parameters in order to optimize the final model. Typical parameters are minimum observations per leaf or per branch node, pruning, and split criterions as well as surrogate decision splits. In this example, the maximum number of decision splits (branch nodes) per layer - a set of nodes that are equidistant from the root node - has been chosen for improving the CART model by the ensemble methods bagging and boosting. 

Figure 5.37 Dependence of the fraction of misclassifications in boosted CART models on the maximum number of splits (a) and the decision boundaries for 14 splits per layer (b).

WaddeU, H. L. (1952), Work Sampling—A New Tool to Help Cut Costs, Boost Productivity, Make Decisions, Factory Management and Maintenance, Vol. 110, No. 7, p. 83. 

At each internal tree node, a decision forest randomly can select F feature attributes, and evaluate just those attributes to choose the partitioning attribute. They tend to produce trees larger than trees where all attributes are considered for selection at each node, but different classes will be eventually assigned to different leaf nodes. At each internal tree node, RFs evaluate the quality of all possible partitioning attributes, but randomly select one of the Fbest attributes to label that node based on information gain, etc. RFs are an effective tool in prediction compared with boosting and adaptive bagging. 

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