Beyond the gear, assessing the danger or likelihood of an avalanche on any particular run requires some science, as well as a bit of art.
It's one of the Tour's great jawdropping moments, the way the great Dane – shepherded by a young domestique called Jan Ullrich – forensically appraised his rivals, their demeanour, their gearing, assessing whether they were on the limit.
The evaluation of employees' performance is geared towards assessing individual's contribution to the attainment of organizational goals.
And it is difficult to test two experimental drugs in combination because the regulatory system is geared to assessing a single drug at a time.
The Stanford Thoracic Surgery Clinical Outcomes and Health Services Research Center uses a variety of research methodologies geared towards assessing the quality and effectiveness of thoracic surgical interventions for individual patients as well as population-based research.
Al Hunter Yarrow Point, Wash., April 22 , 2009 To the Editor: Civil Service promotional exams, particularly for police officers and firefighters, are geared toward assessing candidates' technical knowledge of the department's rules, procedures and policies.
However, the practical tests were very rigorous and geared towards assessing proficiency of the resident in a variety of skills.
The convention was scheduled a year after the White House Globall summit on CVE and was geared towards assessing progress and recalibrating strategy.
Due to the difficulty, efforts of evaluating the safety of transgenic crops has been geared toward assessing the substantial equivalence between transgenic plants and wildtype or conventionally bred plants, like plants from MAB breeding [ 10].
However, participants in a National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention workshop have recommended "the development of alternative methods of oversight for public health investigations that are less dependent on the research versus practice distinction and more geared to assessing the level of risk and ensuring ethical conduct" (MacQueen and Beuhler 2004).
