Development engineers have long recognized the role that sound plays in a driver's impression of a car's power and responsiveness.
Drivers were found to construe performance in terms of two main dimensions, both situationally specific: dynamic performance (involving acceleration, power, and responsiveness during pulling away, overtaking and hill climbs) and cruising performance (involving smoothness and low noise, during high speed cruising on highways).
As mentioned, the prototype has a specially reduced, customized kernel so as to improve its power efficiency, responsiveness and boot up speed.
When compared to the previous Ecotec engines, the Alloytec benefits from increased power output, responsiveness and fuel efficiency.
An RV greater than 1 indicates that the comparator measure has greater discriminating power or responsiveness than the reference measure, and vice versa.
The common practice is to compute the RV and simply conclude that the comparator measure has more (or less) discriminating power or responsiveness than the reference measure if the RV is greater (or less) than 1.
More generally, in all important properties (reliability, validity, discriminatory power and responsiveness) the 15D compares at least equally with other preference-based generic HRQoL instruments such as the EQ-5D, SF-6D and HUI3 [ 10, 31, 32].
Similarly, Kasper et al. demonstrated that MSC function is altered and diminished with age, specifically showing lower actin turnover and therefore decreased motility, decreased antioxidant power, decreased responsiveness to chemical and mechanical signaling, and increased senescence (Kasper et al., 2009).
The FJS-12 has been validated in hip and knee patients and provides higher discriminatory power and responsiveness and is less prone to a ceiling effect compared with other traditional PRO questionnaires [ 5, 6].
Each clinical sign of the CDS was chosen based on the results of a formal measurement methodology that assessed validity, reliability, discriminatory power, and responsiveness to clinical change, as published by Friedman et al [ 8].
