Mr. Sims: While economists have celebrated the incremental economic growth in recent years, the actual effect when you measure it at a company activity level, has been quite minimal.
And a number of attempts to measure the effect have found that it not only exists but is large.
Many of the nurseries were set up only in 2002, and they take about three years to get going, so it is too soon to measure their effect.
During an eclipse scientist are able to measure the effect of the sun on the Earth's atmosphere and observe the violent magnetic storms in outer atmosphere of the sun - the corona.
Measure the effect of that traffic, of their social shares and of the SEO benefit gets you in the form of free visitors, who also share it and then convert to leads.
Steven Nissen, the chairman of cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic and head of the American College of Cardiology, will present one key study that will use ultrasound probes to measure the effect of torcetrapib on plaque in the coronary arteries at the ACC meeting in New Orleans next March.
The inequity is worse if you measure the net effect of taxes paid and subsidies received.
Even harder to measure is the effect on the group's culture.
To determine whether the surgery was truly effective or if the patients felt better simply because they believed in the treatment, the doctors told the patients that some of the battery packs powering the electrodes inside their brains would be turned off, while others would be left on, to measure any placebo effect.
In fact, the March 29th measure had the opposite effect: the real strengthened from around BRL1.65 to BRL1.59 in six days.
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The Camden Coalition has been able to measure its long-term effect on its first thirty-six super-utilizers.
The measure, which comes into effect on April 1, 2001, follows nine other countries, including Austria, Germany, Italy and France.
The European Commission is reviewing the measure because it could have an effect on banks' balance sheets, said Olivier Bailly, a commission spokesman.
However, you would be wrong, because a young academic sociologist at the London School of Economics will soon point out that the move would have a potentially devastating effect on the government's favourite poverty measure.
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 .
If we are going to succumb to the wealth effect, though, let's at least measure wealth in a sober fashion.
This will in effect be a wider version of the English Baccalaureate measure, which some have criticised as being too narrow, although that measure will remain.
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She said Labour would vote against the measure to amend the law to give effect to proposals in the Budget, but the coalition won the vote by 326 to 243, a government majority of 83.
As for the impact on viewers, the effect of disturbing and violent images is hard to measure, said Elana Newman, who teaches psychology at the University of Tulsa and is a specialist in psychological trauma.
The narrowest measure of the money supply - in effect, cash on bank balance sheets - has risen by 58% since September, as you'd expect when the Bank is handing their customers all that freshly created money in exchange for the purchased gilts.
Yes, I realize one may argue that the stock market is not an accurate measure of the economy but the wealth effect is powerful and a rising stock market has definitely improved the general mood of the investing public thereby allowing them to put some of their new found savings to work.
As an administrative action, the measure needs no other approval and goes into effect immediately.
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Critics said the measure was too limited to have a meaningful effect on New Yorkers' waistlines.
Critics said the measure is too limited to have a meaningful effect on New Yorkers' waistlines.
National finance ministers are expected to approve the measure next week, and it will take effect Jan. 1.
Consistency is an important measure of how cool you are, in effect, and we all know that the cool kids tend to win.
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In a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, green tea extract increased energy expenditure, which is a measure of metabolism, plus it had a significant effect on fat oxidation, or how much fat your body burns.
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