Consider a tasting where drinkers sample a beer with a particular characteristic (flavor from German hops, hop bitterness, smoked malt, amount of cherry juice, the options are endless) and rate the intensity of that characteristic.

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Bears for Rackspace cite the sustainability of aforementioned growth rate, the capital intensity of the business model and the sizable competition in the space.

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It also can record the point where ball meets racket, rate your consistency and measure intensity (shots per minute and amount of actual playing time, rather than time on court).

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The purpose of the research was to survey consumers on the intensity of cool and brand favorability and secondarily, to rate the brands on ten characteristics of cool.

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The widely available equations for calculating heart rate training zones may not be specific enough to help you significantly improve performance, but they do provide a starting point, and when combined with a heart rate monitor, they can help you more accurately assess and monitor the intensity of your training sessions.

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The DDoS attack directed at servers run by Spamhaus came at a rate of 300 gigabits a second, which is five or six times the intensity of typical cyberattacks against banks, said Dan Holden, director of security research at Arbor Networks Inc.

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