"It means if you take an area one degree by one degree, latitude by longitude, which at the equator is roughly 100km by 100km, you can take any two points in the DEM and the error between the two points is less than two metres, " he told me.
Another alternative, an idea similar to that proposed by my colleague Richard Vedder in his book Going Broke by Degree, would be to offer tenure (or enhanced job security) as one of a number of compensation options for which individual faculty choose from a menu of compensation items, including salary, health and life insurance plans, retirement contributions, and time off, etc.
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"Six Degrees", by leading environmental campaigner Mark Lynas, sounds a red alert for the health of the planet, charting degree-by-degree the likely consequences of rising temperatures up to the worst-case scenario 5.8 degrees Celsius (10 degrees Fahrenheit) rise envisaged by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2001 report.
Each Quintet speaker employs a new 90-degree by 90-degree Tractrix horn, designed to expand both placement flexibility and the main listening area without reducing overall sound clarity.
During last summer's race riots in the northern cities and towns of Oldham, Burnley, Bradford and Leeds, he was shocked by the degree of alienation felt by the ethnic communities.
So, when observing the VIX, the "fear factor" is determined by the degree in which SPX implied volatilities, as measured by the VIX, are priced above the actual (historical) volatility of the SPX.
In about half the segments mapped by the researchers, humpbacks deviated by one degree or less.
The killings were accompanied by a degree of violence to put Sydney in the shade.
European leaders have been agreeably surprised by the degree of consultation America has offered through the crisis.
Yet the sector is surrounded by a degree of confusion which has acted as a deterrent to saving.
Although most people consider 98.6 F (37 C) normal, your temperature may vary by a degree or more.
The situation was calmer in Georgia, where Atlanta's spring-like high of 76 topped the 1890 record by 1 degree.
But we have been struck by the degree of capacity we have administratively to at least chip away at some of these problems.
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Even the arch climate sceptic Richard Lindzen agrees it will warm by one degree or so, but maintains we can be fairly relaxed about that.
When I first came over here, it felt awkward I was struck by the degree that there really weren't any other women here in senior meetings.
For employees, a great culture is measured by the degree of trust they have in colleagues and their employer as well as the pride they have in their work.
Police patrols of inner-city African-American neighborhoods are characterized by a degree of hyper-aggressive vigilance, constitutionally dubious intrusiveness, and occasional brutality that would absolutely not be tolerated in the white suburbs.
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The message this time: To slow down the acceleration of global warming by unplugging cellphone chargers, turning down the thermostat by one degree, and shutting off computers at night and on the weekends.
The world has marveled at the derring-do of rescuers in the wake of southwestern China's killer earthquake and been heartened by the degree of official willingness to let outsiders share in the national grief.
Nor can one avoid being struck by the degree to which, after some strident anti-Bush rhetoric and political posturing, the administration of Barack Obama has come to embrace most of the counter-terrorist policies of its predecessor.
As with the earlier paper that showed that offshore windmills will lower the air temperature around them by 1 degree or so: I assume from that same mixing increasing the evaporation rate of the sea water.
The National Bureau of Economic Research paper, updated earlier this year, categorized hospitals by the degree of payment cuts (small, moderate, or large), then tracked actual patient outcomes for Medicare beneficiaries treated at these hospitals for heart attacks over an 11-year period.
Rather than a serious risk to some particular freedom like the right to bear arms and use them rhetoric that champions any measure that helps just one person, or reduces risk by any degree, poses a dramatic, immediate risk to the very concept of freedom.
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And as I indicated in an interview earlier, I am sometimes puzzled by the degree to which countries that themselves have undergone enormous transformations, that have known the oppression of dictatorship, or have found themselves on the wrong side of a ruling elite and have suffered for it -- why we would ignore that same principle here.
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Insurance coverages: You might able to save money by accepting a higher degree of risk by increasing your deductible.
Dr. MADHI: Well, unfortunately, now, people started to believe that these things are done by Iraqi, which is quite the truth to some degree by funding or by influence from outside.
Surely anyone in Beijing in recent weeks cannot be oblivious to the frightful air, a problem shared routinely by other, less prominent Chinese cities and also to a degree by Hong Kong.
And the benefits, when estimated using a standard climate model, will reduce temperature only by an immeasurable one-tenth of a degree Fahrenheit by the end of the century.
By working towards his degree, McCreery is following the footprints left by some of his country idols.
Paralympian Sarah Storey has been awarded an honorary degree by the University of Manchester.
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