But maybe the most stunning revelation in the report is that the federal government doesn't have a solid system for determining how much money it saves or wastes by outsourcing various functions to private firms.
To point this out is not to suggest that I know of a more objective system for determining how income should distributed.
Researchers say honeybees may serve as a good model system for determining how nervous systems learn concepts.
Even though Congress sets their pay levels, many T.S.A. employees hope a union will help change the agency's system for determining how workers get raises, a system they say is opaque and riddled with favoritism.
But the EPA's system for determining how much chemical burning is safe amounts to little more than educated guesses, ProPublica's investigation shows.
"People and their families experience stress and bewilderment trying to get the care they need and the complex systems for determining how they might be helped defeat many," said Dame Denise Platt, the CSCI chairwoman.
This paper presents a method for determining how close a neural network (and its design) is to the systems it is intended to represent and model.
Mr. Robinson said lenders and mortgage servicers have improved the systems they use for determining how and when to modify a borrower's loan terms.
This type of information is useful for exploring the potential influence of various controlling factors on mixing downstream of confluences, for evaluating how mixing in a river system varies over time and space, and for determining how these variations influence water quality and ecological conditions along the river.
The news: The court tore down the previous outline for determining how a worker should be categorized, and put a simpler system in its place.
Second, and more importantly, microscopic positions and velocities are generally not useful for determining how macroscopic systems will act or react unless, for instance, their total effect is integrated.
