Tables look useful because they seem to help with 'public accountability', especially in identifying public bodies (such as universities) that may be poorly performing.
One explanation may be that poorly performing fund managers are fired.
The arrangements can increase investors' costs, diminish returns, and may result in poorly performing funds being offered on a 401(k) menu while better funds are left off the list.
Removal of SPPs in duplicated regions with inconsistent data or missing data (see Methods) was a reasonable method of removing unreliable data as these data may be from poorly performing probes in one or all replicates, heterozygous loci, paralogous genes or deleted genes.
In addition to the risks that potentially lucrative takeovers may be prevented and poorly performing managers might prove impossible to dislodge, there is also the danger that those controlling a firm will make decisions that benefit them, at the expense of other shareholders.
This in turn may result in a poorly performing design.
One potential risk of this approach is that the estimation procedure may be affected by poorly performing links.
For example, exon intensities that strongly and uniformly deviate from that of adjacent well-annotated exons in the same gene may indicate cross hybridization, poorly performing probes or absent target.
Gove's proposal to expand the most popular schools, allowing more kids to access these at the expense of falling rolls for poorly performing local schools, may well lead to a situation where, as he puts it, "poorly performing schools [have] fewer and fewer numbers".
Consequently, if there is an age position effect, we expect that the initial disadvantage of poorly performing younger students may extend into later years.
