So that leaves us with the data having some limited relevance to the uninsured, and for nonprofit hospitals in order to calculate their level of community benefit.

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Before Facebook, it was impossible to calculate with this level of accuracy, or to provide recommendations to users on which way the should steer their education or career.

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Thanks to Form PF, the burden of building the technology infrastructure to calculate and format aggregated fund-level security, market and sector exposures, and other non-financial risks, has been addressed by fund administrators.

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On a more personal level, one person might calculate that it would be in their perceived benefit to initiate a divorce, and that this process would be helped further by lying in court.

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Also, whilst it may be easy to calculate the direct costs allocated to the education budget, the high attainment level at Dunshalt pays dividends back in areas that will never appear as a gain in Dunshalt's "cost per child" figures.

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Scientists compare annual accumulation to the volume of ice lost to sea each year to calculate the ice sheet's overall mass balance and its contribution to sea level rise.

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Since no standard method to calculate a graduation rate is enforced nationally, and the college entrance exam boards will only release data below a state level directly to the schools, not the public, we were left to trust county, district and school officials to honestly and accurately report their results.

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