Under state law, all of New York's roughly 700 school districts must develop a system for evaluating teachers based on a mix of standardized test scores, classroom observations and other measures.

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Guidant is developing a wireless "advanced patient management" system for defibrillators, and is evaluating whether heart rate variability is a good indicator of attacks.

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But a raft of SVP volunteers moved in, evaluating a new phone system, setting up e-mail, installing a digital subscriber line connection and redesigning her Web site.

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What about all the other outcome measures that are relevant to evaluating the performance of a medical system and on which the U.S. ranks very high?

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This would help to measure the quality of the patent system itself, and offer some way of evaluating whether it is working to promote innovation, or to impede it.

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Customers are then given a range of choices as to how they want to receive those updates including declining it, downloading it for the purposes of evaluating it later, or installing it directly on a server or desktop system direct from the network.

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