Despite that slippage in its core business, total revenues at Smiths News increased by 2% year on year because of good performances by its educational supplier, The Consortium, and its books division, Bertrams.
The total number of people living with less than one US dollar a day only fell from 1.321 billion in 1990 to 1.214 billion in 1998, and this mainly because of the good performance of countries of East Asia and the Pacific that reduced the population with such an income by almost 200 million.
Zhang et al. [30] constructed similarity matrices by using the characteristic map of first- and second-order Riesz transforms and utilized edge features as pooling function to derive the RFSIM index because of the good performance of Riesz transform in multidimensional signal processing.
The strength of the incentive may be limited because "type I errors (false positive rewards based on relatively poor performance of others) and type II errors (false negative penalties or foregone rewards because of relatively good performance of others)" are likely [ 16].
Model predictive control (MPC) is an advanced control strategy that has a growing interest for research and applications because of its good performance in many kind of processes and its ability to handle constraints, perform optimization, and consider economic aspects and nonlinearities of the process.
Odwalla continued to have good growth in 2007, when Coca-Cola, squeezed by poor growth in its North American markets, issued a company-wide hiring freeze; Odwalla, because of its good performance, was one of the few exceptions to the rule.
Density functional theory (DFT) constitutes a natural choice because of its good performance in terms of accuracy and computational efficiency with numerous applications to acenes 9 and graphene flakes.
Convolutional neural network (CNN) has lately received great attention because of its good performance in the field of computer vision and speech recognition.
