Other studies showed only minor improved reproducibility [ 9, 10] and no improvement in speed of analysis [ 10] by using mechanized methods.
Results show a 34% improvement in speed of read-time.
For example, for one task category, one of our browsers enabled a 33% improvement in speed of finding given images compared to the commercial browser.
In order to quantify the improvement in speed of operation, the time taken by both OSCAR4 version 4.0.1 and OSCAR3 alpha 5 to perform two tasks was measured.
The five additional practice sessions that were given to the 8-year-olds and the four lowest achieving 12-year-olds resulted on average in improvement of speed of response (Fig. 2).
The improvement in speed of 0.04 m/s with physiotherapy reported here accords with the findings of the Perry study.
8 9 The 2006 RCP Sentinel Audit showed some improvement in speed of diagnosis, investigation, and treatment of transient ischaemic attack and stroke, 10 but delays in investigation and treatment were still excessive.
Moreover, the time from symptom onset to diagnosis ranges from 1 day to several months, but is typically several weeks, suggesting considerable scope for improvement in speed of diagnosis.
There were no quality measures for which the rate of improvement sped up after expansion.
Whilst we have made progress since 9 September, delivering week-on-week sales improvements, the speed of this recovery has not been at the level anticipated".
