On the other hand, investors have no guarantee that traditional fund managers (who also use past performance as a sales tool) will perform as well in the future.Purists would say that the Lo-Patel approach is not really an index, but a stock-picking strategy masquerading as a benchmark.
Physicians were indeed uncomfortable with these changes, but seeing performance measurement as a tool to help (and attract) patients, rather than as just a carrot or a stick, brought them along.
A 2010 press release from Pakistan's Interior Ministry described "significant efforts" to get off the TIP watchlist efforts it says "improved the stature of Pakistan before the world".All this makes TIP a fine example of the performance index as a tool of soft power.
Pavement performance serves as a tool in the planning of future M&R actions and can be predicted through two types of models i.e., deterministic and probabilistic [17,18].
There is a growing confidence in Payment for Performance (P4P) as a tool to address these problems [ 2], both among donor- and recipient countries.
Properly constructed mixture samples can be used to correct for systematic measurement errors, provide ongoing monitoring of performance, serve as a tool for interlaboratory comparison, and create a context for evaluating batch effects, protocols, and informatic analyses.
Although a number of post-conflict countries in Africa including Burundi and Rwanda have rolled-out nationwide PBF schemes as a means of improving health worker performance and as a tool for health sector reform, Ireland et al. have questioned the validity of PBF as a tool for health sector reform.
The wood machining tests were performed on natural wood (Apitong) and medium density fiberboard (MDF) to study their performance as a cutting tool.
WC Co composites with a gradient of cobalt content can offer an improved performance as a cutting tool.
But that's not so much a damning critique as a comment on the way video has augmented and in many cases supplanted live performance as a promotional tool and shaper of images.
