The standard measure is gross value-added the output of an industry minus the costs of production.
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The best measure of a currency's true value is its price in gold, a standard measure of wealth for 4, 000 years.
By the standard measure of purchasing-power parity, which reflects currencies' relative buying power, all of South-East Asia's currencies are now undervalued.
Assistant Dean Sean Ferguson said that because there's no "prototypical" applicant, the long-used GMAT provides a standard measure of a student's ability.
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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Its cost-income ratio, a standard measure of efficiency, is a flabby 83%.
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One standard measure compares the income of a household just below the top 10% of earners with one just above the bottom 10%.
Accounts receivable days is a standard measure of the average number of days a company takes to collect payment on goods or services it sold.
Not only are the emerging economies growing rapidly, they also save a higher percentage of the Gross Domestic Product (a standard measure of economic output for an economy).
The standard measure for such things is the Scoville Heat Unit, or SHU, named after Wilbur Lincoln Scoville, a chemist who in 1912 developed a method of assessing the heat given off by capsaicin, the active ingredient in chili peppers.
Delta, United, American, Southwest and Alaska were all over 7.5% of revenue passenger miles with awards. (A revenue passenger mile, or one passenger flying one mile, is the standard measure of traffic for airlines.) Alaska was best at a hefty 9% of revenue passenger miles on frequent-flier awards.
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In a 2011 article for the scholarly journal Science, researchers Martin Hilbert and Priscila Lopez estimated that the entire processing power of the world's stock of general-purpose computers in 2007 more or less equaled that of one human brain (about 6.4 quintillion instructions per second -- the standard measure of computer speed).
All figures are on an annual premium equivalent basis - the standard industry measure that strips out volatility.
In doing so, she proposed the "endorsement" test, which established a judicial standard to measure the limits of church-state interaction.
Recent news stories and opinion pieces have stated or implied that public pensions should be using a corporate pension accounting standard to measure actuarial funding levels.
This fall the House is scheduled to take up climate change legislation, and he says that he's willing to try to fit the renewable energy standard into that measure if necessary.
Proof of this can be found in the standard deviation, a measure of how volatile annual returns were.
Like an honest man or a virtuous woman, it gives us a standard against which to measure our shortcomings.
Here's a visual standard against which to measure all other live-action DVDs.
My guess is that fiduciary standard, a critical measure for the little guy, will be overshadowed by things like system-wide risk, proprietary trading, derivatives and the creation of a consumer protection agency.
While goals are not necessary for activity or even productivity, they provide us with a relative standard against which to measure the effectiveness of our efforts, aiding us in the elusive quest for fulfillment.
He suspects some of the listings were submitted by vendors who ran Linpack (the standard code used to measure supercomputing performance) benchmark before delivering the systems to their customers and then submitted those systems for the list without telling their customers.
The Water Standard will require firms to measure water use and demonstrate efforts taken to reduce consumption.
One of Grove's frustrations is the standard test neurologists use to measure a patient's level of severity of Parkinson's.
Similarly, the proposition that Eximbank has obtained genuinely dedicated income streams to amortize the loans through escrow account arrangements does not measure up to standard commercial banking standards and practices.
In spite of renewed calls for regulatory measures, OSHA's Mr. Barab said it will be years before the agency settles on a new combustible-dust standard, a key regulatory measure recommended by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, a separate government agency.
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Each side of the debate on global warming would do well to consider how they measure up to this standard.
The CPI was first created in 1996 to conform to the requirement for a standard, European-wide, measure of inflation for the purposes of European monetary union.
Like the House measure, the Senate bill has a standard deduction provision, but it allows businesses to apply their net losses to previous years in which they turned a profit.
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