To add insult to injury, the district's latest offer also increases the contractual maximum class sizes from 30 to 34 students per class in grades 4 and 5, and to 37 students per class in most middle school and high schools.
Consequently, to ensure the quality of large lots, each party may require different contractual sampling plans which specify lot size (N), sample size (n) and the maximum number of defective parts (c) in the sample that still allows for lot acceptance, the formal symbols are PL N, n, c).
The ability to cut the teaching staff is limited by contractual ceilings placed on class size.
Ocean transport of coal requires detailed considerations of (1) transportation from the mine to the port, (2) coal-handling facilities at the export port, (3) ocean carrier decisions such as number and size of ships, contractual obligations, management of the fleet, and route decisions, (4) coal-handling facilities at the importing port, and (5) transportation from the port to the customer.
This analysis also controlled for baseline values of each outcome, design factors (practice list size, deprivation, and contractual type), and additional covariates.
The Venetians built a fleet to transport a large army, but the French and German contingents were only one-third of their projected size and could not fulfill their contractual obligations to pay the Venetians for transport.
In a non-contractual context, the savings can be used to guide the size of the bonus.
Using a minimisation procedure based on practice size, area deprivation (the area index of multiple deprivation), and contractual status (contracted either to the National Health Service or to the local primary care trust) we allocated practices 1 1 to intervention or control groups.
After a public outcry, Goodwin eventually agreed to halve the size of his annual pension – but his initial stand over his contractual entitlement is said by those who know him as typical of his approach to business life.
An article in Business Day on Friday about a decision by First Command Financial Services, which caters to military officers, to stop selling contractual plans, a type of mutual fund with high front-end fees, misstated the size of Fidelity Destiny II, a fund it sold.
Thirty centres were approached to participate based on clinic size and geographical location: 26 agreed to take part and were able to meet contractual requirements.
