At the June meeting with Carnegie Learning's sales team, Dr. Allen said Cognitive Tutor could be worthwhile if the district, which has recently cut $7 million from its budget and furloughed employees for nine days, could scrape together the financing.
The standard approach for judging government spending is cost-benefit analysis, which judges a project to be worthwhile if the costs including impact on future taxes are less than the benefits it provides.
This hypothesis could only be confirmed through further research into how offence frequency varies throughout trange for different crimes, although such research may not be worthwhile if the mid-point method is, as it appears, inferior to the aoristic and random methods.
Even though the Hibernia, White Rose, and Terra Nova oil platforms lie within a few hours steaming of one another so perhaps could share a single vessel, the cost of engaging it may not be worthwhile if the probability of an ice-related shutdown is small.
Such an investment is worthwhile if the expected present value of the reduction in disease and in the probability of death is larger than the opportunity costs of the intervention (comp. [8, 9, 24, 25] for a formalization of these notions).
Financial advantages would hardly be worthwhile if the decision to release a prominent terrorist led to a flare-up in terrorist activity.
When the Bureau of Engineering protested that such a device would necessarily be too large to carry on an aeroplane, King told them that it would still be worthwhile if the only aircraft in the Navy big enough to carry it would be the airship.
On the other hand, a game development degree can be worthwhile if the school you are attending does have a lot of programming courses in the program, there are many opportunities to work with other students on teams and produce games, and the school has a record of placing graduates in good entry level game industry positions.
It would be worthwhile if the author more clearly distinguishes the other types of virus-like elements which are retrovirus-like.
Although cognitively more challenging than reading trees (Halverson 2011), the extra effort necessary to build trees may be worthwhile if this exercise helps students grasp the underlying biological concepts of trees more readily.
