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job performance

effectiveness of job-related behavior as measured against a specific criterion of success, such as quantity or quality of output, or against multiple criterion dimensions. See employee evaluation; job criterion; performance review.

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Werdnig–Hoffmann disease

Werdnig–Hoffmann disease

see spinal muscular atrophy. [Guido Werdnig (1862–1919), Austrian neurologist; Johann Hoffmann (1857–1919), German neurologist]