They must fill out a measurement form that requires leg measurements for boot orders.
His formula would become a way of taking the market's temperature, of providing a measurement.
That led to the widespread use of the Sharpe ratio as a measurement tool.
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Beta is a measurement of how much an investment fluctuates in sync with the markets.
"Every half-metre, it takes a measurement of the temperature and the salinity, " said Mr Hadow.
Since aperture plays a part in exposure, it's important to understand "stops of light, " a measurement of the amount of light entering the camera.
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Making sense of that activity is the province of Union Metrics, a measurement and analytics service and preferred partner of the fast-growing social blogging platform.
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The figures have been devised as an attempt to find a measurement for GDP or overall output of the Northern Ireland economy for the first time.
People who do actually know their physics have made the same point: that what has been discovered is a measurement error, not a flaw in the basic theory.
Recent polling has found an improving assessment of George W. Bush's presidency, a measurement which could play a factor in how Jeb Bush would be viewed in future Republican primaries.
Born from a need to re-create mixed drinks in perfect proportion, Bartendro uses food-grade tubing, pumps and custom-built electronics to pipe liquids out with a measurement accuracy of a milliliter.
As a consequence of this additional uncertainty, if the quantum demon makes a measurement of a nucleus which forces it to choose one state or the other, he is creating new information.
Headteachers' leader, David Hart, said that adopting a measurement system based on the individual progress of children - and not measuring them against national benchmarks - could be the key to an agreement.
With baseball franchises placing a heavy emphasis on sabermetrics and quantitative analyses, the Blue Jays need to find a measurement technique that can effectively evaluate managerial candidates in terms of WAR (Wins Above Replacement).
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He then examined the relationship between growth and shareholder returns using a measurement known as Jensen's alpha, which represents the difference between a company's stock performance and the return of a diversified portfolio of risky stocks.
While there are many heart rate apps available, Inner Balance is monitoring heart rate variability (HRV) - a measurement of beat-to-beat changes that occur within heart rhythms and a sophisticated and highly sensitive observation of emotional fluctuations.
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The study was designed to measure progression-free survival, which is a measurement of the time from the start of treatment until the disease gets worse or the patient dies, and overall survival, which is a measurement of time from the start of treatment until death.
The theoretical part of the seminar on the measurement technology including the principle of a measurement survey, a plane-table method, a perpendicular survey, a traverse survey, a GPS survey, and using a total station will be conducted at the premises of the Institute of Fine Arts.
They quantify your stress level by calculating your heart rate and the minute variations in the time between each beat, a measurement known as heart rate variability (HRV), which has been used to gauge the likelihood of mortality after a heart attack and to help assess certain psychiatric conditions.
That is the limit imposed by Heisenberg's famous uncertainty principle (which states that the precision of a time measurement is limited by the precision of a corresponding energy measurement).
This is a new measurement of how many candidates in a school achieve good GCSE grades in English, maths, two sciences, a language and either history or geography.
When the explorer drills the ice to make a physical measurement of thickness, he will use the hole to lower a 4kg conductivity-temperature device (CTD) into the ocean below.
"Our new admission process will increase equity and access to Gifted and Talented Programs by ensuring there is a common measurement of giftedness and enabling families to apply to programs outside of their district, " said a spokeswoman for the Department of Education in an emailed statement.
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Tonal quality is a subjective measurement, of course, and Stradivarius violins vary in their tones.
This ranking is based on a performance measurement of the "K computer(1), " currently under their joint development.
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Twitter and Nielsen are teaming up to launch a new measurement service for television chatter on Twitter.
There's even a secondary measurement we can make to further prove the notion, and it can be done with today's technology.
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