6MWT: six minute walk test; HRQL: health-related quality of life; ICU-AW: ICU-acquired weakness; ISWT: incremental shuttle walk test; MMT: manual muscle testing; MRC: Medical Research Council; PF: Physical function; RCT: Randomised: controlled trial; RM: repetition maximum; SF-36: Short-Form 36; TUAG: Timed Up And Go.
Given the historical undercurrents, flexible approaches are required to focus on strengths that contribute to progress, even if incremental, rather than on weaknesses which can undermine efforts.
The ways in which genomics data sharing policies have been designed, and the strengths and weaknesses of the incremental approach described earlier, give rise to some important lessons for future policy development, both in genomics and in other fields of scientific endeavour in terms of sustainability (Box 1).
Due to the retrieval of coarse resolution modules, whose large sizes depend on incremental merging of small modules, a weakness of the MaxMod approach concerns its possible interpretation in biological applications.
The proposed estimation method has several weaknesses that are common among incremental estimation methods.
Finally, there was interest from a number of participants in determining the relevant strengths and weaknesses of across the board versus incremental approaches to the introduction of new formal priority setting processes.
Therein, the identification and selection of valuable asymmetries require both internally and externally oriented processes, including experimentation, incremental learning, organizational introspection, reflective inquiry and search for weaknesses, and bootstrapping on emerging capabilities (Miller 2003, p. 965 968).
The funding for extra visits to schools allows the supervisor to take time to identify the school's strengths and weaknesses and can then work in an incremental way to improve the situation.
Findings suggest that such a 'three-dimensional' planning process, when well timed, incremental and pragmatic may help to overcome institutional and design weaknesses, and to solidify political support.
Most Chinese patents granted to domestic applicants are still of a type known as "utility model" patents, mainly awarded for incremental improvements, rather than for innovation or new designs (see chart 3).The weakness of intellectual-property rights can be seen as part of a deeper problem: the weakness of private property rights in general.
