These figures - based on the more accurate, consolidated measurement - make it the second most watched programme of 2010.
The training includes practical surveying sessions by divers using traditional measurement-taking and drawings of the ship and also more specialized techniques using advanced technology.
Findings like this will not hold back Britain's measurement-mad government.
Upon reflection, policy is best defined using current-period accounting of carbon stocks and flows, ideally with direct, measurement-based, verifiable tallies of GHG emissions from the production and use of all fuels and feedstocks.
The big global firms certainly have invested in departments focused on brand-building and consumer engagement via the primary social channels (mostly prodded by their forward-thinking, marketing and measurement-driven clients at CPG companies).
Whereas analog measurement--in the form of slide rules, micrometers and electronic meters--increasingly hit a wall because of the limitation of human beings to capture the result, digital could just keep on getting more and more accurate.
The decision to bring the shuttle down came after one of the orbiter's three key navigation tools -- an inertial measurement unit -- stopped working.
The media-measurement, data-exploitation and agency firms are now colliding with each other because the brands that pay for their services are scrambling for ways to make relevant connections with their customers.
While there are many heart rate apps available, Inner Balance is monitoring heart rate variability (HRV) - a measurement of beat-to-beat changes that occur within heart rhythms and a sophisticated and highly sensitive observation of emotional fluctuations.
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In an election fraught with ironies, here is one more: Al Gore , the putative inventor of the Internet, when faced with the perfect test of his belief in empirical solutions to the world's problems, immediately threw out objective, electro-mechanical vote counting in lieu of the most subjective of measurement schemes--teams of politically biased observers peering at increasingly mangled paper ballots.
The high data transfer rates allows LPDDR3 to exceed support for full HD video payback on screens exceeding the current market available four-inch measurement and enable real-time viewing without downloading the content for the full HD visual experience.
Rival online audience-measurement firm comScore (nasdaq: SCOR - news - people ) most frequently uses monthly unique visitors to compile its Web site traffic rankings.
"There are four systems in nature that oscillate, and this is the last one where a single-channel measurement has crossed the five-sigma threshold - we know now about mixing in all four of these systems, " he told BBC News.
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.
It plans to use the banks' own risk-measurement techniques to set adequate levels of regulatory capital.
Rival online audience-measurement firm comScore most frequently uses monthly unique visitors to compile its Web site traffic rankings.
This spurious doubling of estimates is attributed to serious miss-location problems at many NOAA recording sites, along with erroneous post-measurement data adjustments which exaggerated temperatures upwards between 1979 and 2008.
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Another risk-measurement tool, known as the Reynolds Risk Score, developed by Harvard University researchers in the 1990s, does consider if a patient's parent had a heart attack and at what age.
The radio-ratings company saw its stock lose a fifth of its value on Tuesday after it delayed the expanded use of an audience-measurement device that is meant to replace written diaries.
Self-measurement used to be difficult and expensive but technologists have started solving these issues: leaders include FitBit and Zeo for sleep measurement, RunKeeper for exercise tracking and Withings for weight management.
On the eve of Facebook's public stock offering, consumer-measurement company Nielsen has released figures showing that, although the United States has the most Facebook users, higher percentages of the population can be found in other countries.
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"Now in its third year, the Federal Reserve's review of capital plans provides a regular, structured, and comparative way to promote and assess the capacity of large bank holding companies to understand and manage their capital positions, with particular emphasis on risk-measurement practices, " Federal Reserve governor Daniel Tarullo said.
It enables closed-loop measurement and analysis of marketing effectiveness across the full customer lifecycle.
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These measurement systems provide real-time analysis that can identify errors and defects on an assembly line.
Virginia Burkett is the scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey who has analyzed the ground-based measurement of subsidence.
Current regulations mean draught beer must be sold in pints (equivalent to 568ml), halves (284ml) or the little-known one-third measurement.
Poverty lines are often calculated by a dollar-a-day measurement devised by Robert McNamara when he was president of the World Bank.
The company even just wrapped up a pilot program with Nordstrom that could see the legendary retailer using it's Kinect-based measurement taking system.
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Davidson, the University of Chicago cardiologist, says this was allowable because using an easier-to-take measurement of carotid artery plaque would yield a clearer result.
It would be nice to have some kind of data-based measurement of mendaciousness, a Klout score for lying. (Well, maybe not a Klout score.).
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