To ensure comparability of teams in the intervention and control arm, clusters of comparable teams are made based on health care organisation, level of intensity of care (long-term residential or long-term clinical care), caseload size and location (urban or rural).
Barcelona and Real Madrid, the only vaguely comparable teams in terms of domestic dominance and absolute quality, have notched up 19 and 14 in that category, respectively.
Thus, we expect teams including generalists to perform better than otherwise comparable teams in contexts where there is not a well-defined path to combine knowledge and the advantage of specialized contributions plays only a secondary role.
Looking at data from college football from 1997 to 2010, the authors of this study found "that for particularly poorly performing teams, coach replacements have little effect on team performance as measured against comparable teams that did not replace their coach.
However, for teams with middling records -- that is, teams where entry conditions for a new coach appear to be more favorable -- replacing the head coach appears to result in worse performance over subsequent years than comparable teams who retained their coach".
However, for teams with middling records -- that is, teams where entry conditions for a new coach appear to be more favorable -- replacing the head coach appears to result in worse performance over subsequent years than comparable teams who retained their coach". This study is consistent with a number of studies of coaching in sports.
Each cluster consists of two comparable teams in terms of these variables; one cluster contains five comparable teams.
Thus, teams of surface-immobilized Ncd∆tail motors can exert high forces and exhibit an intrinsic stopping force that is comparable to teams of other kinesin motors12,16,17,18.
Their drivers Valtteri Bottas and Felipe Massa were only 10th and 14th in first practice, when times are not necessarily comparable because teams run their cars in different specifications.
