Even by the standards of economic data, they are imprecise, thanks to differences in the measurement of inflation.
That said, it paid to be in some sectors in the measurement period and not to be in others.
But they will likely need much more information to close the uncertainties that remain in the measurement of the Higgs' mass and its other properties.
The last phase is creating the specific action plan, executing it, and then putting in the measurement and technology systems needed to support the execution.
"The scientists are right to be extremely cautious about interpreting these findings, " said Jim Al-Khalili, a physicist from the University of Surrey, who suggested that a simple error in the measurement is probably the source of all the fuss.
In the Gini measurement, zero means perfect equality and 1 means total inequality.
The government implemented the MTOPS measurement in the early 1990s to differentiate supercomputers from low-end computers.
Finally in terms of company disposition the measurement is whether the company, in this case Apple, was better off after he ran it.
For example, spearheaded by the Institute of Public Relations, the lead research and measurement organization in the public relations business, a number of public relations organizations have come together to develop universal measurement standards.
He added there had been a record number of officers on the street and a 32% reduction in crime, as well as record clear-up rates for crime and said : "For most people the measurement you make in terms of the effectiveness of the police service is the visibility of a police presence in our streets".
We will also work to improve the user interface and functionality with the goal of making Atlas the most effective, intuitive, and powerful ad serving, management and measurement platform in the industry.
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The New York firefighters' union, which is seeking to reverse cuts to staffing, has said the change in measurement has produced only apparent improvement, not real change.
That said, there is increasing evidence that an over-reliance on planning, management and measurement in the front-end of innovation as evidenced by the movement of back-end processes such as lean and six sigma to the front end of innovation, are producing poor returns on innovation effort.
Beyond that, it almost goes without saying that this news is extremely exciting for marketers, as it legitimizes the argument to pursue social TV initiatives with the confidence in measurement that only a Nielsen can provide, thus creating a real market for new approaches, startups and content in the TV space and allowing for new lanes of marketing innovation.
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Mr Cooper argues that inter-country variations in price and expenditure structure constitute an insurmountable obstacle to meaningful measurement of differences in the purchasing power of currencies.
The new Northern Ireland Composite Economic Index (NICEI) will now be used as the closest approximate measurement for GDP in Northern Ireland drawing on the various statistical sources that currently exist.
The two storm measurement systems are similar in scale to the ones that measure hurricanes and tornadoes.
The most persuasive evidence that Voyager 1 has crossed the termination shock is its measurement of a sudden increase in the strength of the magnetic field carried by the solar wind, combined with an inferred decrease in its speed.
Corporations should also leverage existing measurement systems in the areas of market research and human resources.
They are raising the bar in the area of reporting and measurement standards.
In retrospect, the clue that Measurement wasn't doing as well as its reported earnings had suggested was there for all to see.
The only thing that will make this happen is common Digital Video and Television language, in the form of metrics and measurement.
The project aims to help fill the current gap in existing measurement studies by satellites and submarines - which cannot differentiate between ice and snow layers.
While typically monitored through satellite imagery direct validation of chlorophyll blooms at this resolution provides a groundbreaking link between scientific modeling and in-situ measurement of the Pacific Ocean.
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The spin measurement, published in Nature, gives precious clues as to how the black hole grew and achieved supermassive status.
Similar to the way measurement conversions or flight prices pop up in a box at the top of your search results, Google will display the number of calories, fat grams and other key nutrition facts for everything from bananas to burritos.
They are both harsh figures, but such is the measurement of progress in drug development.
In the report, a top body measurement expert says Americans are getting bigger, and seat-makers have been basing their designs on the wrong body parts.
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Core research areas addressed in the 2011 strategy include: nanomaterial measurement, human exposure assessment, human health, environment, risk assessment and management, and the new core area of predictive modeling and informatics.
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