David Pannick, QC for the trust, had argued in court that though there was a "general desirability" to consult, "a caring doctor" might well have spared Tracey a discussion which was going to cause distress for no good reason.
In the prospective analysis, an LL equal to 1.0 was transformed into a desirability equal to 0.5.
Owing to the most of manufactured products have more than one quality characteristic and the quality characteristics are generally correlated with each other, this study also proposes a desirability function to obtain a compromise, composite solution.
In addition, based on the developed models of the SEA and F, multi-objective optimization design (MOD) of the oblong tube system is carried out by adopting a desirability approach to achieve maximum SEA capacity and minimum F. It is found that the optimal design of FIU can be achieved if the tube diameter and tube width are set at their minimum limits and the maximum tube thickness is chosen.
These authors identify a set of acceptable doses by defining a maximum acceptable probability of toxicity assuming 100% efficacy, a minimum acceptable probability of efficacy assuming no toxicity and define a desirability index to identify the optimal dose from the set of acceptable doses.
A threat decreases the desirability to Q of Q doing not-A compared to what it would have been without P's intervention, while leaving the desirability to Q of Q doing A as it would have been.
He proposes that a throffer is made if P attempts to encourage Q to do A by increasing "the desirability to Q of Q doing A relative to what it would have been if P made no proposal and decrease the desirability to Q of Q doing not-A relative to what it would have been if P made no proposal".
"As the votes on Saturday illustrated, we remain as a Synod, it seems, committed by a majority to the desirability to seeing women as bishops for the health and flourishing of the work of God's Kingdom in this Church and this nation," Dr Williams said.
The debate on citizen's income has shifted from being a debate about its desirability to being one about its feasibility.
The real key to Davos's success, and reason why it has survived for forty years, is that it has turned into what economists refer to as "a positional good" — an item or service the value of which is mostly a function of its desirability to others.
