Value has to be measured relative to something such as earnings, revenues, cash in the bank, or accounting book value.
SPE's current success needs to be measured against the mountain it still has to climb.
The breadth of a business ought to be measured by how it extends its concerns beyond those of its owners to those of its workers, its suppliers, and its customers, to all the people who are touched by the business.
Air temperatures have to be measured by thermometers placed off the ground and shielded from sunlight, according to global meteorological standards.
The easy bit to understand is the claimant count, as that's computerised and can be measured to the nearest individual claimant.
The GSC shall endeavor to assess and improve "readiness" of each EOV to be measured in a sustained way, and encourage the observation systems of the world to regularly assess the fitness-for-purpose of the outputs of the ocean observing system, in order to feed back into updated requirements.
Under the framework, reference groups will be required to identify how clinical performance should be measured.
The equipment setup at the lab not only allows for the plasma to be created, but its properties can also be measured very closely, allowing the scientists to directly observe how matter behaves when its in its plasma state.
Then the volunteers will be given an antibiotic to essentially wipe out the population of M. smithii and the same parameters will be measured again, to see if eliminating the microbes will help change the patient's weight profile and alter their trajectory toward diabetes.
If the superpositions of the sphere can then be measured before it decoheres and snaps to just one location, that would be an unprecedented success.
The progress of work has to be measured in terms of outcomes, rather than outputs.
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But it explains why progress in fighting piracy tends to be measured by unusual yardsticks.
First, the relative positions of the two spacecraft will be measured to within a few millimetres by radio waves.
Now, for some success seems to be measured by the number of students moved out of the public schools.
But the effect was still too small to be measured with any confidence.
It is also commonplace for the temperature in core holes to be measured.
An essential element in a new regulatory framework, then, is that systemic risks have to be measured, priced and regulated.
But headteachers' unions are pushing for pupils' improvement to be measured against their previous performance - and not against a national target.
For me, this global recession is not to be measured just in statistics, or in graphs or in figures on a balance sheet.
Sales is an area where job performance is typically closely monitored, which will allow any productivity gains to be measured more clearly, Girard said.
Free trade is the natural state, the distribution of incomes we get from free trade is the natural state against which others have to be measured.
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You know that our progress has to be measured in the results that we achieve over many months and years, not the minute-by-minute talk in the media.
But I think on all these issues -- nuclear disarmament, nuclear proliferation, Middle East peace -- progress is going to be measured not in days, not in weeks.
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It gathered samples of the atmosphere to be measured by its Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instruments, which allow sophisticated analysis of the Martian atmosphere from the rover.
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The two separate reports from both teams pointed out that many hospitals had also failed to collect "adequate information" allowing their performance to be measured against the national standards.
Sheepishly allowing himself to be measured, Cheng complains about packing on the pounds since getting married but then reveals that he recently completed a six-day cycling tour of Taiwan.
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China just passed a new milestone: it consumes more energy than the United States, which had been the world leader ever since energy consumption started to be measured.
That's because, just as with individual records like home runs, team performance has to be measured away from folklore and against the standard of the era in which it occurred.
Second-to-second changes in its activity might, though, be expected to be correlated with changes in the amygdalas, because of its role in regulating them. fMRI allows such correlations to be measured.
If the U.S. ignores the innovation and alternative delivery models that are advancing mental health care in other parts of the world, the cost will continue to be measured in American lives.
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