And, sitting behind the day-to-day political battle, is the less-discussed issue of productivity growth.
I.F.: Our working group defined a few topics that are very important for young scientists, such as mechanisms of support and access to mentoring, the issue of productivity, international mobility, and gender equality.
The group of connectionists who have taken F&P's challenge most seriously has tended to reject premise (vi) in their argument, while accepting, on the face of it, the previous five premises (sometimes with reservations on the issue of productivity).
For example, regarding the performance of mixed versus pure stands, Carnol et al. (2014) have shown a discrepancy between the perceptions of practitioners and the scientific knowledge on the issue of productivity in mixed species stands, urging to the need to address the lack of scientific data and to improve the communication of the topic towards practitioners through efficient information flow.
These factors skew the numbers considerably and does not even begin to speak to the issue of productivity achieved with hours worked.
Alexeenko discussed the issue of productivity in the US workforce noting that productivity was increasing 2.5% prior to the Great Recession, the current rate of increase is only 0.5%.
In the current study, however, we focus on the issue of productivity changes.
Other indicators, such as cost per case-mix, highlight the issue of productivity and the imperative of maximizing the outputs produced from a given set of inputs or, alternatively, minimizing the inputs of nursing tasks, materials, and equipment to produce nursing services.
In this report we notably did not address the issue of the effect of productivity.
Furthermore, the issues of cell productivity, cell stability, cost of goods and services, and speed of development have put new demands on the field.
