Try to measure the area of a Frisbee disc with wooden blocks and the answer is pretty coarse, but do the same thing with 10 billion grains of sand and you can get pretty damn accurate.
Moreover, using a stain in this way meant they could automate the process by attaching a camera to the microscope, taking photographs of all 384 wells, and feeding the images into a computer that had been programmed to measure the area of orange in a well and contrast that with the total area occupied by worms.
The three-cone drill is used to measure short-area quickness, which is a key attribute in Houston's zone-blocking offense.
On April 21st Stephen Klineberg, a sociologist at Rice University, brought out the 2010 edition of his Houston Area Survey, an annual measure of the civic temperature.
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And by that measure, the Seattle area (skyline at right), despite hiring at Amazon.com and Microsoft, is still hurting.
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The scientists used an EEG (electroencephalogram) to measure electrical activity in an area of the brain called the prefrontal cortex, which is involved in judgment and motivation.
"We measure the ecological load an area can take and we offer licences only where were convinced there is a proper balance between effects of fish farming and the ability of local environment to absorb the effects of farming, " says Stewart Stevenson the Scottish Minister for Environment and Climate Change.
"An area the size of Wales is frequently used to measure the rate of forest destruction around the world, " said Size of Wales project manager, Hannah Scrase.
The aim is to measure levels of multiple deprivation within a small area.
Measure and deduct the fraction of your work area at home from your rent, mortgage, insurance, electricity and internet costs.
Ms Simmons-Edmund, who is also a police officer in nearby Dixfield, said 90% of residents in the town already own a firearm, but the measure also reflected community concern about the remote area's rising crime rates, which she said had nearly tripled in the last year.
They also have higher wing loadings, a measure of the ratio between a wing's area and its weight.
The country's best-educated population, by this measure, is Brent North, in the Wembley area of north-west London, where more than 98% of adults have a qualification.
They felt that the assembly's Children and Families Measure had been central to the progress made in this area.
As a share of GDP, this measure is the second-highest in both the euro area and the wider 27-strong EU (see chart).
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In the past, governments have tended to measure how well they are doing in any particular policy area by counting the amount of money they are spending on it.
An oil law has still not been passed that would allow for much-needed investment and should enable the Kurds to have a measure of control over management and exploration contracts in their area.
Peel said the closure had been "a purely precautionary measure to prevent passing vessels spreading the oil into a wider area than that already affected".
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Gerrard received a measure of criticism for going to ground too easily in the area at Blackburn last Saturday, but he had a clear case here.
The study speaks to the larger question of how do policy makers and economists measure this new emerging part of the economy, a new area that creates new value from an already existing asset?
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