Consumer advocates say the Buyer's Guide has not been significantly improved since it appeared in 1985 and that its current emphasis on warranty information needs to be changed.
Also, if the Wiener filter can be improved, the performance of BM3D can also be improved, since it uses the Wiener filter as one of its fundamental components.
"Hindenburg" -- much improved since it was first done four years ago and now smoothly taking its place as prologue -- uses film clips of the fire that swept over the eponymous airship as it landed in New Jersey in 1937.
The numbers for the soon-to-conclude "Six Feet Under" have improved since it moved from Mondays back to Sundays.
But one bright spot for NBC was the Pentagon drama "E-Ring," whose ratings have improved since it swapped slots with "The Apprentice: Martha Stewart" on Wednesdays.
Public transport would be likely to improve, since it would get more money and would have less competition for road space.
So judging the "recovery" would mean looking at how much the economy has improved since it reached that very deep trough in June 2009, or 38 months ago.
Pound said that the EPO test had improved since it was first introduced in 2000, when a blood and a urine test were needed to detect it, and that laboratories had gotten better at reading the test.
But while there's general agreement that the Yerba Buena Center has steadily improved since it opened in 1993, it can't help but suffer from comparison with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art just across Third Street.
What should come as no surprise is that Lexus is the top brand for reliability or that the long-term dependability of three-year-old models over all continues to improve, since it has been improving steadily year over year.
