They did observe that a general increase in the population's IQ might mean nobody would be advantaged by the improvement, meaning there would be no increase in any particular individual's earnings.
Ideally also, there is a process of productivity improvement, meaning the amount that people can produce goes up every year.
Meanwhile, "school improvement", meaning raising standards measured in exam results and league tables, has moved to front and centre of what the Schools Co-operative Society does, with seven devolved regional organisations setting up their own school improvement teams.
Adams said her ability to cut costs was restrained by her school being classed as "requiring improvement", meaning that it needed to pay higher rates to attract and retain the top quality teaching staff it needed.
Norris adds that in the past, tenants even resisted repairs and modernisation of their flats, for fear that this would be viewed as an improvement, meaning their rent would rise.
Those trends prompt health care organizations' decision makers to expect a "business case" for quality improvement, meaning that these investments would have a "return on investment" (ROI) within a reasonable period of time.
34 45 Further, this item clearly specifies that the treatment target (remission or at least low disease activity, see item 2) should be attained within 6 months and not necessarily within 3 months; the 3-month time point relates solely to assessing improvement, meaning reduction of disease activity from a high to at least a moderate state by composite measures.
There is greater product differentiation and specification, and research into product improvement, meaning, for example, fewer sheep but more meat, increasing value over the last 10 years.
In the model for the placebo period, body temperature, creeping time, and paw withdrawal time still were altered in first 56 h after kaolin administration (spontaneous improvement was 50%, a 100% improvement meaning return to the prekaolin administration condition).
As indicated by our model, the number of new breast cancer diagnoses will keep rising in the future (although the rates had started to stabilise), and survival is likely to continue to show some improvement, meaning that prevalence will inevitably also increase in the future.
