The regional index scores and consequent ranking is not dependent on the relative performance of regions in comparison to the best-performing region or average regional performance, which are not a stable reference point over time.
Widespread research emphasizes the role of regional systems of innovation (RS I in augmenting the competitiveness and performance of regions and companies.
The findings certainly call into question the efficacy of policies that were designed to increase flexibility and to improve the relative performance of regions".
A large amount of literature provides empirical evidence in support of Marshall or Jacobs theories regarding the specialization or diversity effects on the economic performance of regions.
Accordingly, the classification performance of region-specific models was estimated by external validation on data from the other region, as well as by (biased) resubstitution.
The increased transparency of the national comparisons (i.e. publishing of results of quality measurements from all health and social care providers) introduced in 2006, together with new national quality registries targeting care for elderly people had provided insights into the performance of regions, municipalities and private organizations.
Although a regional cortical abnormality is expected to result in impairment of task performance of that region, underconnectivity of cortical regions is likely to result in impairment in the integration of tasks.
The task considered in this paper is performance evaluation of region segmentation algorithms in the ground-truth-based paradigm.
If the rest of America could achieve the performances of regions like these, our health care cost crisis would be over.
According to classification performance of each region in Table 2, we consider assigning five regions with different weights, higher performance, and larger weights.
Uncertain population behaviors in a regional emergency could potentially harm the performance of the region's transportation system and subsequent evacuation effort.
