"You would expect that systems with greater choice would come out better because you expect competition to raise performance of the high performers and lower performers, and put out of the market schools and systems that do not succeed.
In this paper, we present iPEEH, a general technique to raise performance of pitch estimators by enhancing harmonics.
With the forthcoming iPad 3, Apple will once again have to undertake a delicate balancing act of raising performance while reducing power consumption.
Morrison closed the show with a roof-raising performance of his career-establishing 1964 hit with Them.
Similarly, while England limped out of last year's rugby World Cup, New Zealand retained the title, spurred on by the hair-raising performance of the haka before each match.
Commemorating the centenary of the first stage presentation of the classic by J.M. Barrie (1860-1937), below, a fund-raising performance of "Peter Pan" was given by the Chicken Shed Theater Company at the Albery Theater in London on Sunday.
The ACME musicians — Caleb Burhans and Keats Dieffenbach, violinists; Nadia Sirota, violist; and Clarice Jensen, cellist — produced a sweet, refined sound with a rich vibrato, both in Mr. Johannsson's music and in its curtain-raising performance of Gavin Bryars's String Quartet No. 1 ("Between the National and the Bristol").
Beyond the symbolism, the divergence in the fund-raising performance of the two parties — which also extends to the Congressional campaigns, where Democrats have also built a big cash advantage — is likely to influence basic strategic decisions by Republicans on matters like when to begin television advertising and where to compete.
And the surprise winner of the night was Drew Ryniewicz, who redeemed a worrisome Simon Cowell with an emotional, nuanced, hair-raising performance of "What a Feeling" that proved she's more than just a Justin Bieber fan -- she has the potential to sing alongside her idol in the immediate future.
A GIS-based (R USLE model was employed and a scenario analysis was performed by setting criteria for raising the performance of perennial forage crops.
Labour did a good job of raising the performance of schools at the bottom.
