While the tests are not necessarily new, schools face stiff federal sanctions, including the loss of some federal money, this year under the new Bush education law if they fail to meet specified goals for progress on those tests.
Some companies have even eliminated stock option awards — the grants of stock that executives are able to buy at a fixed price — in favor of full-value stock awards that vest only if executives meet specified goals, said Carol Bowie, head of Americas research at Institutional Shareholder Services, a proxy consulting firm for institutional investors.
Leadership is defined as the ability of one individual to inspire, influence and challenge others to meet specified goals [ 27].
A multi-domain dynamic system includes a mixture of electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and/or thermal components, making it difficult use a single design tool to design a system to meet specified performance goals.
This chapter describes an iterative and systematic approach to HPLC method development, designed to meet the specified goals.
Programme Budgeting and Marginal Analysis (PBMA) is a process that helps decision-makers maximise the impact of healthcare resources on the health needs of a local population or meet other specified goals such as equity considerations.
The agreement also requires Related and its tenants to meet specified hiring and wage goals and to set aside one-fifth of the units for low- and moderate-income residents.
In the LibSVM package, 27 the training process was actually a procedure of 2D grid search optimizing two parameters to meet the specified goal, ie, the cost function value C and the RBF kernel parameter γ.
From 6 to 8 hours, six animals required norepinephrine (average dose 0.09 [0.00 to 0.21] μg/kg per minute), and from 8 to 10 hours all animals needed norepinephrine to meet the specified goal (average dose 0.23 [0.11 to 0.70] μg/kg per minute; Figure 1).
Women meeting specified inclusion criteria were then recruited to participate.
