Even with increased investment, careful prioritization will continue to be necessary to inform decisions about which areas to protect and which actions to undertake for species, e.g., using approaches that optimise returns on investment given fixed budgets and defined objectives, for sites (21), species (7, 8), and management actions (22).
For example, management by objectives (MBO) emphasizes clearly defined objectives for individual managers, whereas management by results (MBR) emphasizes the use of past results as indicators of future ones, and total quality management (TQM) emphasizes awareness of quality in all organizational processes.
Although the GAO report noted that many local authorities said the program had helped make their communities safer, the authors found that ICE, the agency that administers 287(g), has failed to provide its state and local partners with clearly defined objectives for the program or to create a consistent system for supervising them.
Major objectives of water quality assessment are describing water quality at regional or national scales, investigating spatial temporal trends and determining if the water quality meets previously defined objectives for designated uses etc. (World Bank 2003; Ouyang 2005).
In Groningen, the Netherlands, the nationally defined objectives for clinical experiences and skills were compared with the real situation in six clinical clerkships [ 13].
To determine the best cut-off values for each test, a ROC curve analysis was chosen for the analysis because it permitted the researchers to fit test values and to achieve the best parameters according to defined objectives (for example, better sensitivity, better specificity or the best of both, simultaneously).
Defining health problems requires both a clearly defined objective for asking the question(s), and an understanding about how different indicators can be combined to produce a target sample of adequate size and appropriate composition.
We then explain how disciplined adherence to the modular way of creating new products helps an organisation to identify its current technological capabilities more clearly, and to define objectives and processes for strategically focused organisational learning.
In most cases, natural frequencies and mode shapes are selected to define objective functions for SDD.
The soil science community is challenged to apply the accumulated knowledge on soil formation, soil differences and functions, as well as, new tools of robust data processing to evaluate current systems and define objective relationships for better future classification systems.
The college must demonstrate clearly defined objectives appropriate for an institution of higher education, and show they are sufficiently organized and staffed to meet those objectives.
