In the meantime, waiting times soar after the Coalition dropped the relevant target, a centrally determined objective that was highly effective in measuring outcomes and focusing the minds of NHS managers; minds that are capable of meandering without such structures firmly in place.
It was Gosplan's task to "translate" the politically determined objectives into a consistent set of plan targets.
The objective of the partnership is an investment in the individual as a valued talent, focused on their development with clearly defined and determined objectives.
The sum of the longest diameters for all target lesions was used as a reference for determining objective tumour response.
To demonstrate the utility and effectiveness of the proposed entropy measures, an entropy-based approach of determining objective weights of attributes is developed to solve multiple-attribute decision-making problems in the context of linguistic term sets.
We can thus determine objective certainty experimentally, as absolute consistency.
Finally at 16:00, after two hours of heavy fighting, the Australians had achieved their objectives against a determined defence.
It has a clear end point with a winner and a loser determined by an objective scoring system.
In each patient, we determined an objective scatter index (OSI) as the ratio of the intensity at an eccentric location in the image and the central part.
