Although metastatic breast cancer (MBC) may be responsive to further treatment, it is incurable, and so improving the quality of life (QoL), not merely the length of life, is an important parameter of benefit.
In most established towns and cities, the residential housing stock is largely already built, so improving the quality of the built environment to improve occupant health would benefit from diagnostic tools that can identify deficiencies in the indoor environment that could be addressed via retrofitted improvements to the building [ 17].
It would also incentivise players to give their best every week and so improve the quality of games.
So improve the quality of your bond portfolio, keep maturities short and stay clear of junk.
But what is puzzling is that capitalists who are so ruthless about improving the quality of their companies -- only the paranoid survive, you know -- are so ambivalent about improving the quality of their country.
In fact it is just this concentration of wealth that makes the economic growth we see in GDP charts so ineffective at improving the quality of our lives.
This is important so that institutions focus on improving the quality of their practices rather than fixing individual metrics.
Even so, officials say that by improving the quality of breast X-rays, they have increased the accuracy of mammography over all.
So, in the spirit of improving the quality of the debate and borrowing the format of another political satirist on night-time TV, here are today's Top 10 Bogus Statements in the climate debate (hereafter labeled "BS"), each followed by a reality check.
In particular, Mumby noted that coral recovery greatly depends on the quality of the water in its local environment, so conservation efforts that focus on improving the quality of water in a given region could hasten reef recovery.
So we need a relentless focus on improving the quality of existing teachers within the classroom, through better appraisal, professional development and leadership.
