While major advances have been made in seismic design, there still exists a large disconnect between the performance level that buildings are designed to achieve and the performance level required for community resiliency.
Therefore, effective capacity enables us to study the performance levels between the two extreme cases of delay limited capacity, which can be seen as a deterministic service guarantee or equivalently as a performance level attained under hard QoS limitations, and ergodic capacity, which is achieved in the absence of any QoS considerations.
As is seen in the figures, regardless of subjecting a structure to fire alone or PEF, there is a correlation between the fire-resistance rating and the performance levels.
The organizational climate metrics that discriminate between the safety performance levels of different sites are identified.
Furthermore, proportionality was reported between the absolute performance level and the observed cortical changes (Elbert et al 1995b; Buonomano and Merzenich 1998; Dinse and Merzenich 2002).
In order to investigate the behavioral relevance of this form of plasticity, we plotted the relationship between discrimination performance levels and measured glomerular response amplitudes for different odorant dilutions.
In the context of our study, low performing students were challenged by inconsistent information regarding their clinical skills: While the OSCE differentiates between different performance levels, in WBA, practically all students receive scores in the upper range of the scale.
Therefore, we decided not to use this predictions-observations comparison method for the long term investigation; instead, we made a simple comparison between performance levels in the last time point pre-removal (2005/06) and the levels in 2011/12, controlling for practices' characteristics in a multilevel regression analysis.
There was no difference between performance levels in the last 10 trials of Day 3 and the first 10 trials of the extinction day (Day 4) (P = 0.89).
The results also show causal relations between performance levels and coincident faults: coincident faults are unlikely to occur at skill-based performance level; the coincident faults introduced in rule-based performances show a high probability of occurrence, and the coincident faults introduced in knowledge-based performances are shaped by the content and formats of the task itself.
