And Scotia has shown admirable risk-assessment skills by limiting exposure to now toxic subprime mortgage lending.
More transparency and more accurate assessment of risks are admirable goals.
While it may be admirable that standardised approaches are replacing informal assessments of these same characteristics, the evidence available does not suggest that any existing empathy measures are sufficiently reliable and valid for pre-training selection.
It's an admirable ambition but as pressure group Wada Na Todo Abhiyan argues in its assessment (pdf) of the last two years of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance government, talking and delivering are two very different things.
Shael Polakow-Suransky's views on improving student assessment tests to include problem solving, analytical thinking and writing skills are admirable ideas.
While this tool is an admirable initial foray, there is clearly a need for more research and development of self-efficacy assessment tools specifically for the undergraduate biology classroom.
Aside from the admirable attempt to synthesize a vast array of ideas, a valuable contribution hidden within is the critical assessment of the view that the RNA world hypothesis needs to be abandoned in favour of a peptides-first model.
However, their assessment of subversive poetry, following the banning of a book written by Guantanamo Bay inmates, is intelligent, admirable and very funny.
But as its sport is relatively obscure in a country where baseball lays claim to being the national pastime, some assessment of its players, skills and demands by a baseball expert might have added to its otherwise admirable illumination.
His assessment that colleges and firms are perpetuating a degradation of the value of professional experience for college students is admirable in its effort to raise exposure for this important issue.
His memoir, "Life," is admirable too — an authentic voice, unsparing in its self-assessment and its view of others.
