And there are now more sophisticated ways than before of measuring and hedging them.
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"By measuring and managing our water impact... we can address longer-term water scarcity issues, " he said.
The measuring and mapping was done by the commission's secretary and surveyor general, John Randel Jr.
Participants will also discuss the opportunities and challenges faced when measuring and promoting online multilingualism.
Everything begins with measuring and understanding the gap between what the experience is and what it should be.
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We will only work with corporations and NGOs that are committed to measuring and reporting on their performance.
We will be measuring and correlating and activating and deactivating all kinds of systems in response to other systems.
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Things like measuring and reducing attack surface, self-defending data, damage-potential effort ratios, fully homomorphic encryption, and end-to-end message confidentiality.
Mr Engle's work has helped build the foundations for measuring and avoiding myriad types of risks in the modern economy.
Together they give Salesforce a comprehensive social marketing tools arsenal that includes social media monitoring, analysis, tracking, publishing, measuring and advertising.
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In fact, 23 global hotel groups have recently come together to develop a protocol for measuring and reporting the carbon footprint of hotel stays and corporate meetings.
The software will be hosted at OpenEco.org, a sort of social-networking site for businesses designed to foster communication about measuring and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
That means measuring and reducing the embodied energy of a product throughout the supply chain, from materials extraction to processing to transportation to product use and disposal.
The LeapPad features measuring and sorting games that use cute cartoons to employ learning strategies similar to the activities my 5-year-old does in his progressive kindergarten classroom.
The reliance on self-reporting weight, height, activity, and soda consumption in some studies rather than independent measuring and verification might confound their reliability, as might small sample sizes.
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As panellists of a workshop themed around Internet access and diversity, EURid and UNESCO will also discuss the opportunities and challenges faced when measuring and promoting online multilingualism.
For a trip to be deductible, you must put in 40 hours of work a week. (Keep a log in case you're audited.) Tasks can range from genteel drudgery such as observing, measuring and cataloging, to more taxing activities, say, hiking to 17, 000 feet in the Himalayas to study Nepalese snow leopards.
The promise was clear: if you simply start measuring and tracking everything, from minutely segmented sales and resource usage metrics to every conceivable macroeconomic variable of remote interest, we will be able to identify all manner of relationships, correlations and insights, the net result of which will be the capacity to much more effectively and efficiently allocate resources to take advantage of opportunity and drive results.
The system consists of sensors fitted on cables throughout the network, both overhead and underground, measuring current and conductor temperature.
In this new focus on error-free medicine, hospitals are dropping age-old assumptions that their doctors are doing a good job and instead are measuring performance and issuing report cards.
Companies that expect to meet sales goals now have to put as much, if not more, emphasis and resources on training, equipping, budgeting, measuring, and perhaps even compensating salespeople for the prospecting disciplines of the Age of the Customer.
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According to tradition, Gilgamesh himself erected the imposing city walls, made up of more than 300 million bricks and measuring 26 feet high and almost four miles in length.
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Last year, Harry Kat, a professor at City University's Cass Business School in London, and three others used American stock and bond data from 1970 to 2003 in thousands of simulations measuring risk and return on ten-year Treasury bonds, alone and in more diversified portfolios.
The minivan he's slowly touring through the cul-de-sacs of suburban Detroit is painted bright orange and its roof rack bristles with electronics: a global positioning system antenna, a laser measuring system and 14 digital cameras.
It is a relatively new category of businesses tools aimed at identifying and measuring the popularity of topics and influencers.
It is a collaborative partnership of more than 30 nations from all continents, all working together to provide a seamless global array of over 3, 000 profiling floats moving up and down in the water column from the sea surface to 2, 000 meters and measuring temperature, salinity, and depth during every ascent to the sea surface.
In other words, more quality educational play-time is preferable to more testing, measuring, and evaluating.
The one big question in measuring production and playing time is how much weight to give injuries.
You could do the measuring yourself and order custom-made shirts over the Internet.
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Socialware has launched a product called Voice to monitor the returns from social media by measuring leads and client retention.
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