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Characteristics of Soil Microbial Community Structure in Different Land Use Types of the Huanghe Alluvial Plain

Microorganisms
The Huanghe alluvial plain plays a crucial role in biodiversity conservation. However, its ecosystem has become sensitive and fragile due to long-term human disturbances.
Xintong Cao, Qinghua Cui, Daiqing Li, Yu Liu, Kun Liu, Zhuoqing Li   +5 more
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The extent of benchmarking in the South African financial sector

South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences, 2014
Benchmarking is the process of identifying, understanding and adapting outstanding practices from within the organisation or from other businesses, to help improve performance.
W Vermeulen
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The Importance of Benchmarking in the Innovative Activities of Tourism Enterprises: The Case Study of Lot S.A. Polish Airlines [PDF]

, 2016
The aim of this article is to identify the importance of benchmarking as a source of innovation in the activities of tourism enterprises through the case study of LOT S.A. Polish Airlines.
Gierczak-Korzeniowska, Beata
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'Part'ly first among equals: Semantic part-based benchmarking for state-of-the-art object recognition systems

, 2016
An examination of object recognition challenge leaderboards (ILSVRC, PASCAL-VOC) reveals that the top-performing classifiers typically exhibit small differences amongst themselves in terms of error rate/mAP.
A Borji, A Khosla, A Torralba, CW Tyler, D Hoiem, GA Miller, L Xu, M Everingham, MD Zeiler, PF Felzenszwalb, SE Palmer, T Tommasi, T-Y Lin   +12 more
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Benchmarking specialty hospitals, a scoping review on theory and practice

BMC Health Services Research, 2017
Background Although benchmarking may improve hospital processes, research on this subject is limited. The aim of this study was to provide an overview of publications on benchmarking in specialty hospitals and a description of study characteristics ...
A. Wind, W. H. van Harten
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A quantum leap in informal benchmarking : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Organisational Excellence at Massey University, Palmerston North, Manawatu, New Zealand [PDF]

, 2017
Despite the paucity of available literature on informal benchmarking and the consequential lack of its understanding, informal benchmarking has outranked established benchmarking (formal), placing 4th out of 20 of the most used business improvement ...
Samuel, Alan
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Perspectives in educating molecular pathologists on liquid biopsy: Toward integrative, equitable, and decentralized precision oncology

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Liquid biopsy enables minimally invasive, real‐time molecular profiling through analysis of circulating biomarkers in biological fluids. This Perspective highlights the importance of training pathologists through integrative educational programs, such as the European Masters in Molecular Pathology, to ensure effective and equitable implementation of ...
Marius Ilié, Umberto Malapelle, Catherine Alix‐Panabières, Claus Lindbjerg Andersen, Sandra Chlebowski, Vivien Lake, Caroline Lacoux, Virginie Lespinet‐Fabre, Olivier Bordone, Simon Heeke, Christophe Bontoux, Ellen Heitzer, Klaus Pantel, Paul Hofman   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

EU and OECD benchmarking and peer review compared [PDF]

, 2009
Benchmarking and peer review are essential elements of the so-called EU open method of coordination (OMC) which has been contested in the literature for lack of effectiveness.
Groenendijk, Nico
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SMaSH: A Benchmarking Toolkit for Human Genome Variant Calling

, 2014
Motivation: Computational methods are essential to extract actionable information from raw sequencing data, and to thus fulfill the promise of next-generation sequencing technology. Unfortunately, computational tools developed to call variants from human
Bresler, Ma'ayan, Curtis, Kristal, Hartl, Christopher, Jordan, Michael I., Liptrap, Jesse, Newcomb, Julie, Patterson, David, Song, Yun S., Talwalkar, Ameet, Terhorst, Jonathan   +9 more
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Benchmarking integrated photonic architectures [PDF]

, 2017
Photonic platforms represent a promising technology for the realization of several quantum communication protocols and for experiments of quantum simulation.
Crespi, Andrea, Flamini, Fulvio, Osellame, Roberto, Sciarrino, Fabio, Spagnolo, Nicolò, Viggianiello, Niko   +5 more
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