Despite attempts at quality control and standardisation, an extensive history of saffron adulteration, particularly among the cheapest grades, continues into modern times.
Both were paper-based exercises, and not all questionnaires were completed by consultants, which may have introduced errors despite attempts at quality control.
A 3 megapixel camera seems peculiar in this day and age, but I know I'd take a good quality 3MP camera over some of the 5MP phone cameras I've used (*cough* HTC Hero *cough*), but, judging by the lack of a flash, the use of a 3MP sensor is first and foremost a cost consideration, rather than an attempt at quality over quantity.
Or take showbusiness: the first attempts at making quality pop music by the likes of Natalia Vetlitskaya and Anzhelika Varum – packaged in stylish videos – fell prey to cunning "producers", and as a result a fairly horrific genre of music known as popsa appeared everywhere.
It's one of those distinctions that seem slight now but mattered then: the Evening Journal was the popular screaming tabloid, while the American was Hearst's attempt at a quality paper.
When I went to see Hrdy, I had just spent time with conservative firebrand Pat Buchanan, who proudly explained his role in killing the first and only attempt at high quality, affordable and accessible child care for all in this country.
One of the first attempts at a link quality estimator for a routing protocol based on the LQI was MultiHopLQI [6], which was actually an evolution of the aforementioned many-to-one scheme proposed in [5].
Serious attempts at establishing a quality bloodline began in the early 1870s when General Richard Rowett from Illinois imported some dogs from England and began breeding.
Attempts at measuring or certifying quality usually use a set of quality markers, but their individual contribution to overall quality, and further to user perception and attitudes, is largely unknown.
These markets have regional implications, becoming conduits through which medicines transit unchecked and unrecorded to supply neighbouring countries undermining their attempts at regulated import, and quality control.
Instead, identifying SBs has been a matter of application-dependent heuristics, lacking any serious attempt at evaluating the quality of the approaches something that in any case would have proved difficult in absence of quality criteria.
