The Healthcare Commission is the key regulator, assessing the performance of NHS organisations against national standards in its 'annual health check', a monitoring process that assesses both existing performance ('core' standards) and capacity to improve ('developmental' standards) [ 5].
Luther Ragin: IRIS is a meta-standard, which means that it incorporates existing performance reporting standards where available.
We also assessed the extent to which existing performance measures addressed process issues identified at each of the process steps.
Next, the performance of the existing standard evaluation methods and the GPI were compared both on individual and population basis.
The 20% blended cements complied with the chemical, physical and mechanical requirements set out in the existing Standards, maintaining the mechanical performance with respect to the control mortar at 60 days of curing.
However the use of hydrogen in vehicles at pressures much higher than those applicable in natural gas cars still requires safety and performance studies with respect to the verification and validation of the existing standards and regulations.
On December 9, 2011, the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions convened a broad range of stakeholders to explore the legal and policy issues presented by the regulation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under 111 d) (existing source performance standards) of the Clean Air Act.
"We looked at the existing system that was in place and realized SoftLayer could provide a better performance network in a bare metal product.
EPA and DOT considered this possibility in setting the existing standards.
The existing standards only specify for the largest processors of data that the data at rest has to be encrypted.
Also SVMHL displays better predictive performance than the existing low cost structure-based method MMR on a gold-standard enzyme dataset.
