The researchers took brain scans of 40 volunteers to measure the size of the prefrontal cortex.
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We measure corporate size using four measures--sales, market value, assets and profits--to produce a composite measure of bigness.
It is part of a monitoring project across 10 sites in Suffolk to measure the size of the dormouse population.
Imagine a shrinking triangle where the top point is occupied by firms that measure audience size on media properties such as Nielsen, Arbitron and ComScore.
The infra-red radiation emitted by the dust can also be used to measure the size of the ring directly, and this has been done using the Keck telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
By combining the observational power of six 5-inch aperture telescopes spread over hundreds of feet, the NPOI is able to measure the size of stars down to one milliarcsecond on the sky.
They have been testing a laser system for measuring lunar dust and soil kicked up by rocket exhausts, and while using precipitation as a substitute to calibrate the laser, they found they could measure the average size of raindrops passing through it.
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We think the list that shows giving as a percentage of profits is the most meaningful, because it demonstrates what share of its fortune a company is willing to put into doing good, while the cash list is in some measure based on the size of the company.
Indeed, since 2005, UBS said, the size-weighted measure has rarely been negative.
And, whereas most Gallium Nitride (GaN) LEDs on the market measure just two inches in size, Sammy's technique could result in displays about 400 times larger.
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Asked if the supplemental index is getting bigger, he responds that "new pages are constantly being added, " but that the "algorithmic nature" of Google's spider makes it hard to measure the index's size or how fast it's growing.
"An area the size of Wales is frequently used to measure the rate of forest destruction around the world, " said Size of Wales project manager, Hannah Scrase.
No question, Hedgelets are affordable if you measure that property only by contract size.
In this day and age, when Britain sometimes struggles to justify its status as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council or as a "major player on the world stage", the medal table may prove to be a more accurate measure of international standing than the size, for example, of the GDP or the armed forces.
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The new microSD card is going to be fully compatible with and have the same exact dimensions as TransFlash (both measure 11mm x 15mm x 1mm in size), and SanDisk has already announced plans to "transition" its TransFlash line to the microSD standard later this year.
Because the PGA Tour is a nonprofit organization that turns over its excess cash to charity, one measure of golf's success is the size of those contributions.
You can find strong statistics, and useless investment signals from butter production in Bangladesh, the US population of 9 year old kids, and now, in a dramatic breakthrough, relating average penis size to GDP growth, a key measure of stock market returns around the world.
Because individual hospitals differ in size, they are compared by a standard measure of the number of cases per 1, 000 bed days.
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The algebraic formulae required to measure performance, representing such obscure factors as the average size of litter items, have been widely lampooned.
Critics say the measure will be ineffective because it does not limit the size of dairy-based drinks, like milkshakes and fruit juices, which often contain high amounts of sugar and are calorie laden.
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We also encouraged schools to adopt better assessments -- not just one-size-fits-all approaches -- to measure what our kids know and what they're able to do.
Using sonar, infra-red or vision systems, suppliers are developing ways to detect the size of the passenger in the front seat and to measure how far back they are sitting.
What economic theory tells us is to look at the entire projected path of policy, measure its fiscal gap, and decide on the basis of the size of its fiscal gap whether the policy is sustainable.
As a device Natal is a thin bar about 12 inches across, with sensors that measure a room's depth, the available light and the size and motion of up to two gamers standing in front of the machine and multiple players taking turns.
The new report, a measure of hiring by private companies, will draw from a greater sample size and use a revised methodology.
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However, the size of a country's domestic markets is a crude measure, not least because it is becoming difficult to define a domestic market.
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This cream of the regional crop is not a ranking by size, like our annual Global 2000, or necessarily a measure of brand wattage.
Overall GDP shows the size of the UK's economy, but does not necessarily measure people's economic wellbeing.
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