In a letter to Mr Sarkozy and Mr Berlusconi the European Commission President, Jose Manuel Barroso, said "the temporary restoration of borders is one of the possibilities, provided this is subject to specific and clearly defined criteria".
This means attempting to identify every relevant trial of a given question (including studies that have never been published), choosing the best ones using clearly defined criteria for quality, and combining the results in a statistically valid way.
It finds that while girls tend to perform better than boys across all ethnic and social groups, gaps defined by criteria other than gender are larger still.
Expanding rural road networks (in addition to investing in electrification and irrigation) is a strategic investment for rural development and should not be judged against narrowly defined economic criteria.
How this would be made happen was totally left to the teams working on the project, yet the acceptance criteria were defined razor-sharp.
To the rescue have come a plethora of scientific processes aimed to guide the hapless leader: defined competencies, performance criteria, psychometric assessments, structured feedback, bell curves, 4-quadrant matrices, 9-box grids, circumplexes, weightings and ratings.
Using your defined cultural values, create criteria to score potential candidates.
Such a physician might be able to guide the parents of colicky babies through a difficult time that is (mercifully) usually transient, and could also help patients requiring hormone replacement therapy (whether for low thyroid hormone levels or low testosterone levels) decide what replacement dose makes sense, and reach a conclusion that would be informed by numeric criteria but not exclusively defined by it.
FORBES: Are doctors over-responsive to patients -- or not attentive enough? (Answer: yes.)
Whether someone receives the death penalty or a lesser sentence can rise or fall on whether he met criteria for a disorder as defined in the DSM.
The criteria for inscription in the World Heritage List are defined in the Statement of Outstanding Universal Value.
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