Rather, what is being measured is frequency of desire which is something very different indeed.

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And he finds that the patents acquired in that time period tend to be of higher quality than the patents produced internally in the post-IPO period as measured by frequency of citation.

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It was this vibrational frequency that the team measured.

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The strength of each relationship is measured along 36 different metrics and scored based on the context and frequency of past interactions.

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