In good times upgrades fuel bubbles; in bad times downgrades automatically send markets spiralling.The obvious solution is to strip the rules of references to ratings where possible, so that the market, rather than a government mandate, determines the extent of their use.
She argues that works of art symbolize states of mind ("feelings"), but that the relation is not to be explained in terms of any rule of reference such as operates in language.
We obtain basically the same result with k=2 and k=3, which is within the range of the rule-of-thumb recommendations (references listed in KNN section of the complete analysis).
In response, Brandt argues for what he calls ideal rule utilitarianism, which makes the frame of reference for rule consideration not the actual rules available, but the ideal rule, i.e., the rule that would be optimific (productive of the best possible consequences), were it employed.
The new rules expand the number of reference guides — or compendiums — that Medicare relies on for determining which off-label uses of cancer drugs to cover.
As a general theory, restriction is open to an obvious objection: it rules out innocuous forms of reference along with pathological ones.
Our independent data monitoring committee (DMC) has clear stopping rules in their terms of reference when reviewing data and will perform analyses as Group A vs B vs C without knowing which group is intervention or control.
Sports are vast and relatively unchanging rule sets that transcend the generations, and their rules often become colloquial terms of reference.
Moreover, it is not enough to perfect rules, if the spatial vision of reference is not specifically based on the real territory, but does no more that proffer general objectives and ideological exhortations about the benefits expected from spatial consideration.
They will be unaware of treatment allocation when they judge data on effectiveness and safety and will compare these against the stopping rules outlined in the terms of reference.
