Ten experienced classical musicians marked each performance on eight measures, including melody, tempo and emotional content, on a scale from 0 to 100.
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On a scale from 1 to 5, with 5 being the most risky, the U.S ranks like most of Western Europe, at No. 2.
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This measured, among other things, feelings of guilt on a scale from one (very slightly guilty or not at all) to five (extremely guilty).
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Once the service is delivered and paid for, users rate the sellers on a scale from one (lowest) to five (highest) and post comments about them.
The structural resilience of the EU as a system has been very low (1 on a scale from 1 to 5) since November 2010 and this is certainly not a good omen.
My second was to wonder exactly how much contrition he wanted, on a scale from Nixonian modified hangout to a full Jimmy Swaggart, from something suitable for family viewing to a blushing Playboy-channel disclosure.
To compare alien planets, Dr. Mendez at the Planetary Habitability Laboratory and his colleagues are creating an Earth Similarity Index that ranks worlds by their resemblance to our own planet, on a scale from zero to one, based on their mass, radius, density and surface temperature.
Barry Schwartz, a blogger for search marketing site Search Engine Roundtable, says that even though his pagerank dropped from seven to four on a scale from one to 10, he hasn't seen a falloff in traffic from Google searches or even a drop in his site's placement in Google's search results.
Transparency International's corruption-perceptions index suggests that corruption is rife: in 2010, on a scale from one (the worst) to ten, Western Europe's five most populous countries received an average score of 6.5, whereas the three most populous countries in the Middle East averaged 3.2 (Turkey scored 4.4, Egypt 3.1 and Iran 2.2).
"This meant that the slates which were already being exported on a smaller scale from Blaenau Ffestiniog, could be loaded onto much bigger ocean-going ships inside a sheltered harbour... and of course in 1836 the railway is bringing slates down, " he said.
The extent of democracy in the cantons is captured on a scale running from one to six.
Political thinking, with some important exceptions, could be located on a scale running from one to the other.
House of Cards, scoring a 76 rating on a scale of 100 from Metacritic.com, worked.
And who among us hasn't stepped on a bathroom scale to determine the damage from a previous night's pig-out?
From 1 April, the friends and family test will be on a six-point scale - from "extremely likely" to recommend the service to "extremely unlikely".
The agencies assess their the ability to pay off loans or investments and then rate them on a sliding scale, ranging from AAA to D.
On a smaller scale, switching from express to ground delivery of products, if you determine that shipping speed is not a crucial element to your customers, and then upcharging those consumers who still prefer express delivery, could produce substantial savings.
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Whether it can be applied on a large scale in a sustainable way will vary tremendously from country to country.
Doing this on a large scale, involving 151 samples from infections in 19 countries, allowed researchers to build up a picture of the spread of the antibiotic resistant strains.
Why is murder on a large scale treated so differently from other outrages?
Control Risks ranks countries across four categories, including political and terrorist risk, and rates each country on a five-point scale, from Insignificant through Extreme.
This allows Chiquita to deliver bananas with the colors requested by the customers, which falls anywhere on a nine-point scale ranging from green to deep yellow.
Lin said that the biorefinery process could be used for all kinds of food waste and could be commercialized on a large scale with additional funding from investors, according to the ACS press release.
If companies had not already computerised on a large scale, running everything from their supply chain to their sales operation electronically, they would not be able to connect to the Internet and amplify their reach overnight.
Salter and co-authors Franklin Mixon of Columbus State University and Ernest King of the University of Southern Mississippi asked 402 people to rate agents, both male and female, on a scale of 1 to 10, from very unattractive to very attractive, based on online head shots.
Previously, the commission held that the amount of radiation released from FDI warranted only a level 5 designation on the International Nuclear Event Scale (which runs from 1 to 7).
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Less than 50 years on a commercial scale, less than one lifetime from inception to today.
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Each subject rates each category on a scale of 1 to 7, ranging from Not a Problem to Major Problem.
But the truth is, the only way we can accelerate the job creation that takes place on a scale that is needed is bold action from Congress.
During the past four rated Quarters, the GMI Ratings Accounting Risk Score for the company has fallen precipitously from 60, on a scale of 100, to 5.
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