All the historical records of sea level measure only relative sea level.
And on the domestic level, the measure of success of a government and a country was not this particular piece of legislation or that specific reform but whether it had provided successively rising standards of living for its broad middle class.
Another caveat - surveys of expectations do not all, or don't necessarily measure the absolute level of optimism or pessimism, they just measure how much those levels have changed.
Because they're volunteer-based, and because each state uses different methods to measure reading level, doing a nationwide study would be difficult.
The IGs are working with the Chief Financial Officers Council to help measure the level of erroneous payments, their causes, and the best methods to prevent them.
Someday the ability to measure the level of stem cells in a tumor could lead to new prognostic tests that predict when a cancer is likely to accelerate, helping doctors customize treatment.
While there have been other patents awarded on treatment methods, Singer said, they require doctors to use a new method of diagnosis or a new method to measure some level in the body.
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One way we can try to measure the level of fear in a given stock is through a technical analysis indicator called the Relative Strength Index, or RSI, which measures momentum on a scale of zero to 100.
Because there is no perfect way to measure state-level effects, we pursue three approaches to decomposing employment impacts across states.
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One way to measure the relative level of customer dis-satisfaction is to compare the rate at which the two firms freeze accounts.
By turn, applicants take the WorkKeys assessment to measure their skill level and identify ways to improve, through online training, the skills that employers seek.
As a consequence, the dollar price of gold is the best, though imprecise, real-time measure of the price level.
These Legos require a level of precision, and a measure of patience.
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One of Grove's frustrations is the standard test neurologists use to measure a patient's level of severity of Parkinson's.
In science, the Uncertainty Principle says that you cannot precisely measure anything past a certain level of precision because the mere act of observing distorts the object of the measurement.
Gail Larkham, a head from Surrey, said the CVA scores, as they are known, could not show improvements in very bright children because primary school Sats tests only measure up to a certain level (level 5).
In London, Picarro will place analyzers on the ground around the city as well as one on a bus to measure carbon emissions at road level and another on a plane to gauge emissions at higher altitudes.
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The data that one can measure is unprecedented in both the level of detail and in its scale.
To measure customer delight at the organizational level, the best place to start is the work of Fred Reichheld.
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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.
This signal is measure in dBm, and the level is used to determine the actual power required by every cell site to maintain call connection as well as quality of every call.
She said what you really wanted to measure was consequential deceptions, meaning the level of deception that moved voters.
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Although a low AMH level is consistent with greater difficulty getting pregnant, the measure can't be used to predict who will or won't conceive, she says.
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These measures can be used at the local, state, and federal level, and provide a framework for agencies and clinics to measure the effectiveness of their programs.
In such places, the least hopeless course may be to ensure as wide a measure of democracy as possible at the lowest local level (for instance, in last weekend's Bosnian town elections, whose results are not yet clear).
This is used in the BBC tables as a tie-break measure for schools scoring the same results at GCSE-level.
One measure of consumer confidence showed it falling to its lowest level for nine years, in the second-biggest one-month drop since 1990.
Until now, France and Slovenia were the only two countries to have opted out from this measure of financial transparency, already implemented at a European level.
Female leaders including French minister Christine Lagarde have told me they support a measure of affirmative action for women to reach the executive level or board level.
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