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These figures of merit are used to characterize the performance of an optical communication system.

Several possible figures of merit are used to characterize the performance of an optical communication system.

In order to find the best winglet shape among the winglets on the Pareto front, three figures of merit are used: the aircraft Maximum Takeoff Weight (MTOW), the aircraft fuel weight and the aircraft Direct Operating Cost (DOC).

Finally, a dedicated figure of merit was used to make a qualitative comparison of various designs.

To maximize return from this system fewer cows but of higher genetic merit were used resulting in an average decrease in milk production of 2% and operating profit by 5% compared with the baseline system.

See Materials and Methods for details Holstein dairy cows of high genetic merit were used (Additional file 1, Table S1).

Six Holstein dairy cows of high genetic merit were used (see S. Table 1 in Additional file 1).

Validation of the prediction was performed by removing the phenotypes of the individuals of the last generation; the correlation between true and estimated genetic merit was used as a measure of performance for each method (pedigree BLUP, low- and high-density arrays or sequence data), in the animal breeding literature, this correlation is commonly referred to as 'accuracy'accuracy

Two performance merits are used in the assessment: BER and adjacent channel power ratio (ACPR) as a measure for spectral regrowth.

Merit indices are used to rank materials and are of fundamental importance in materials selection.

Finally, the aggregate test receiver-operating-characteristic (ROC) curves and Pratt's Figure of Merit (FOM) are used to evaluate the proposed detector against state-of-the-art edge detectors.