Our data can contribute to creating a benchmark upon which other yearly periods, and the data from other hospitals, can be compared.
Each beneficiary will sign a contract with consequences for failing to meet the agreed-upon benchmarks.
The government will reimburse them several years later, possibly with a bonus — but only if agreed-upon benchmarks show that the program is working.
Now, the appointments are said to be on the agenda as Afghanistan's foreign donors meet to assess whether Mr. Karzai's government is living up to the mutually agreed-upon benchmarks on promoting good government and combating corruption, known as the Tokyo Mutual Accountability Framework.
For example, if a company were to reach previously-agreed-upon benchmarks, like a certain amount of feedback or funding, the investors or provider could reward them by funding their first pilot study.
Two uncertainty propagation techniques are employed and compared against a benchmark based upon randomly scanning input parameter ranges.
Methodology The three crucial aspects of evaluation – independence, credibility and usefulness – were assessed against defined and agreed-upon international benchmarks and best practices, articulated in the Norms and Standards for Evaluation in the UN System approved by the United Nations Evaluation Group UNEGG) in April 2005.
Compared to a virtual screen, which assumes that actives are more similar to each other than to inactives, the new benchmarks are based upon different assumptions: namely, that within an assay molecules with similar activity tend to have similar structures, and that structural similarity decreases as one moves from one paper to another through molecules in common between both.
Based upon benchmarks, the algorithm provides good results in terms of specificity, sensitivity, efficiency and model fit.
The EMRALD team including several family physicians/EMR users discussed and agreed upon benchmarks for optimal completeness.
