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| A performance metric that specifies an advantageous result of applying the solution to the task unit |
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| A condition or parameter that reflects some limitation, restriction or exclusion that has been imposed on the task |
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| A specification of the task environment, whose value is either fixed or varied as a factor of the task |
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| The final result of a task that states the extent to which the task objective has been achieved |
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| (aka Situation) A numerical or categorical quantity that is a condition or a parameter, respectively; its value is called a setting |
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| A performance metric that specifies an immediate or long-term disadvantage of an associated benefit |
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| The existing knowledge that is necessary to design and execute an R&D project |
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| A fixed condition or fixed parameter that avoids, minimizes, or ignores an unwanted influence on the task |
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| A condition or parameter of a task whose value is intentionally varied to measure its impact on the results of the task |
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| A parameter which is not intentionally varied during the execution of a task |
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| A condition which is not intentionally varied during the execution of a task |
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| Those conditions and parameters whose values are fixed during the execution of the task |
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| A fixed condition or fixed parameter that constrains the precision or amount of one of the task resources |
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| Method knowledge transfers domain knowledge into range knowledge |
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| A condition or parameter that does not impose a limitation, restriction or exclusion |
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| A specification of the task system, whose value is either fixed or varied as a factor of the task |
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| An arithmetic combination of one or more benefits and costs that summarizes the impact of their interaction by increasing in value with increasing benefit and decreasing in value with increasing cost |
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| The resulting knowledge and/or devices from a task |
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| An arithmetic combination of several benefits that summarizes the extent to which the task objective has been achieved |
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| Knowledge acquired from the results and conclusions of an R&D project |
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| A fixed condition or fixed parameter that constrains the scope of the utility or validity of the products of a task |
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| An immediate measure of performance of a task |
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| A numerical or categorical quantity that is a factor of a task' its value is called a level |
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| A condition which is intentionally varied during the execution of a task |
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| A parameter which is intentionally varied during the execution of a task |
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| A measure of how close a result is to some baseline |
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| A measure of the distance of a result from some baseline |
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| The smallest measurement increment specifies for a device or quantity |
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| The number of states that spans the dynamic range of a quantity, expressing the maximum amount of information that can be expressed by the quantity |
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| The minimum of the precisions of all the devices and quantities established by the governing propositions, which determines the maximum allowable precision for the results and conclusions of the task |
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| A task unit consisting of a set of nonliving objects or concepts (usually called instances, data points, specimens, items or cases) all of which are assumed to be equivalent for the requirements of the task objective. |
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| A measure of the inconsistency in a sample |
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