To determine the rankings, we started with a list of the largest metropolitan areas in the continental U.S. Thirty-five candidate cities were chosen based on availability of data and geographic diversity.

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The registration process asks each company to submit information in several categories: basic company profile, general information on number of employees, products and services, financial information on annual revenues, their ability to support electronic business transactions, any quality and environmental management certifications, details on their ethical dealings and social responsibility, information on data security, information on diversity policies, and on their use of independent contractors.

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Gather data showing where in the organization gender diversity has and has not been achieved.

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She reckons that the diversity of native languages in America supports the genetic data.

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Prof Matras said, while the data had provided "important confirmation of Manchester's enormous linguistic diversity" the research revealed a greater number of languages and people who spoke them.

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Once you have addressed the privacy issues appropriately, looking at the aggregate data of many users by different segments can tell you a good deal about the diversity of your adoption.

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Issues to consider include ease of deployment, managing backup and data access, support, security, network complexity, device management, operating system diversity, total cost of ownership and integration of various tablet platforms at the application, mobile device management process and system level.

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In Mongolia, the current statistical data collected by the National Statistical Office and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science does not fully reflect the diversity of the cultural industries sector in the country.

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