Lord Saatchi disparagingly quotes the percentage of cancer patients who currently receive "innovative treatments", as if innovation is an end in itself, a benchmark to be achieved rather than a means to improve where treatment is currently lacking.
Such a study needs to be conducted at intervals of at least 5 years, with benchmarking of targets to be achieved in specific instances.
The bill includes arbitrary benchmarks, or triggers, that have to be achieved before legalization kicks in.
Yes, in the sense that a benchmark is a level of performance to be achieved, but no, since an outcome can't be measured until it is achieved, meaning that it is a backwards-looking, rather than forwards-looking, measure.
Having said that, readiness can be achieved by inculcating the urgent need for organizational change within employees, by assimilating employees into the change process by being transparent and fully communicating the intentions and process of change and by establishing a benchmark or level of performance needed to be achieved in order to realize the needed/desired change [ 9, 13].
Students early on are taught to treat education like a race, with certain benchmarks that must be achieved by specific points in time.
This historic experience suggests that, though ambitious, the benchmark can be achieved even in countries with currently low levels of demand satisfied with modern methods.
As a result, his Valpolicellas, a category of wine that can often be insipid, were benchmarks of what could be achieved with care: intense and structured yet light and graceful, with the ability to age.
"These goals are not just development targets, but benchmarks of what can be achieved for children," Ms. Veneman said.
Science 37 recently completed the first end-to-end entirely virtual drug trial, a huge accomplishment and a benchmark for what can be achieved when this model is applied, Tan says.
Computational and programming challenges to improve the already available software can be achieved, but only through benchmarks, simulations, 168 and thorough testing.
