And the length of waits discovered by the survey compare unfavourably with a similar survey carried out in Scotland, which found maximum waits of approximately four and a half hours.
To measure the "Wal-Mart effect" on profits across different industries, Forbes analyzed information compiled by Revere to compare the percentage of sales that various firms generated through Wal-Mart in fiscal 2006 to the gross margins those firms produced during the same period.
To measure the "Wal-Mart effect" on profits across different industries, Forbes analyzed information compiled by Revere to compare the percentage of sales that various firms generated through Wal-Mart in fiscal 2006 to the gross margins those firms produced during the same period, as compiled by FactSet .
In anticipation of the euro, institutional investors are already starting to allocate their European equity portfolios by sector, rather than by country, and they will compare the quality of information provided by listed firms.
For example, if you compare employees by age, studies show that younger workers are more likely to get distracted at work with technology.
In summary, Precision Medicine, defined as rules (algorithm) based medicine by Clayton Christensen seems on the horizon, where medicine and drug discovery will ultimately be supported by intelligent systems (compare Watson) that will enable completely new therapeutic concepts, not least with the advent of mobileICT-based companion (monitoring)diagnostics.
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This is a somewhat beguiling metric to compare companies by -- market cap measures the value of a company's shares available on the market, and not every company has the same proportion of its overall value available in stocks -- but it illustrates well the diametrically opposite directions in which the two mobile phone makers are moving.
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By making it easier to compare prices and wages across Europe, it will increase competition.
At its simplest, the formula is meant to compare revenues generated by customers to the costs associated with acquiring them.
Families can't compare schools side by side or use the tool to see what kind of money people can expect to earn after graduation.
For instance, if you simply compare, country by country, growth rates and aid volumes, you will find that aid and slow growth are correlated.
The creation of the euro in 1999 was supposed to encourage prices to converge, by making it easier to compare prices in different countries.
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By programming a computer to compare the results, they can then build images that show only the original ink and none of the ink added by the monks.
Nissen has said that observational data needs to be in the safety equation, but also favors big trials--he is conducting one, paid for by Pfizer, that will compare the heart safety of Celebrex, naproxen, and ibuprofen.
Standardizing the process by which companies strike deals to do clinical trials that compare an experimental drug to a standard regimen made by another company.
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The new color brightness specification (measuring red, green and blue) published by the Society of Information Display (SID) allows consumers to compare projector color performance without conducting a side-by-side shootout.
The shopping sheet will allow students to easily compare aid packages offered by different institutions.
These intermediaries help tax inspectors compare interest income declared by the individual with that paid out by banks.
The internet lets people compare cities and neighbourhoods by whatever criteria matter to them, from house prices to commuting times.
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The life of a first century Judean carpenter, let alone messiah, is hard to compare to that lived by western teenagers today.
You know this, but you probably don't know the average number of innings thrown at his age by the five recent pitchers who compare to him.
All of this depends on having secure and reliable access to a trusted source of knowledge against which one may compare the facts presented by the claimant.
Mr. Brown also is seeking details about when the OCC learned about the trades behind the losses, the agency's response and how the trades compare to investments made by other large financial institutions.
And you can view it by location, job role, and compare it to your competitors.
Compare it to other corporations by taking a corporate social listening survey.
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Natale and his colleagues used DNA microarrays to compare tumors that were hurt by the drug with those that weren't.
Current yield can be used to compare the interest income provided by a bond to the dividend income provided by a stock.
The Gemological Institute of America, for example, is devising software to enable retailers and consumers to compare diamonds of different cuts by grading the cut automatically.
The other thing to keep in mind, even at the high end, when you compare Asian-Americans individually by educational attainment, you still see that they earned less than non-Hispanic white males, for example.
The Sawtooth cabin-holders are appealing against the proposed increases partly by arguing that it is unfair to compare Forest Service cabins with nearby private property because the owners of the latter face far fewer restrictions on what they can do with their property.
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