As a consequence, the dollar price of gold is the best, though imprecise, real-time measure of the price level.
Being a real-time measure, the index contrasts with GDP and employment reports which are based on surveys and come with lags and revisions.
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As this result came with the benefit of hindsight, the researchers tried to come up with a real-time measure that could potentially provide an early warning sign of an outbreak as it began to spread.
For this tournament, two additional officials have been stationed on the goal line, the first time this measure has been used in a major international competition.
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In a provocative new study, scientists reported Wednesday that they were able to "see" pain on brain scans and, for the first time, measure its intensity and tell whether a drug was relieving it.
In other words that if the occurrence of something is abnormally high or abnormally low simply because of random variation, the statistical chances are that it will be much closer to the average the next time you measure it.
During Ottawa's practices, it's easier for players to score against Bishop because they have time to measure their shots and place them more precisely, said Senators captain Daniel Alfredsson, who scored 8 minutes, 12 seconds into the third period to tie Monday's game.
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So whilst click-through rates on emails and website hits are both free to measure and very seductive, it takes time and money to measure the value of your brand (many big PLCs value these on their balance sheet as goodwill running into several hundred million).
There are more than a dozen incompatible yet fundamentally correct ways to measure time: Earth-centered?
The Centigraphe can measure time mechanically in hundredths of a second.
We need to measure results rather than measure time spent working.
In physics, how you measure time and distance is a matter of your frame of reference, which can be viewed as a language or labeling convention.
Elance and oDesk take steps to verify freelancers' identity, provide tracking tools to measure time worked and post freelancers' skills-test ratings, client reviews and work history.
While the CPI at one time was the measure desired by the public, government efforts turned the CPI away from measuring the price changes in a fixed-weight basket of goods and services to a quasi-substitution-based basket of goods, which destroyed the concept of the CPI as a measure of the cost of living of maintaining a constant standard of living.
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Even the federal American Time Use Survey, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, doesn't directly measure how much time all adults in a household are spending caring for their children.
And Adam was unable to measure a time because he kept going round in circles.
Thus one really cannot use the poverty rate over time as an interesting measure of anything at all.
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We will continue to evaluate performance by the traditional measure of time-weighted returns.
We bounce light off of visible parts into hidden parts and then measure the time and direction of returned light.
Participants then completed a competitive reaction time task used to measure aggression.
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The job was done a week ahead of time, in good measure so the exhausted legislators could be reunited with their families for a long Easter recess.
Police and stewards moved in to try to stem the violence - witnessed by millions on TV - but it took some time to restore a measure of control.
Ashcroft's interim measure allows time for the INS to process the boy's application for a new type of visa, known as a Category T, specifically devised to help victims of human trafficking.
Dishman incorporated two tests that measure the strength of a patient's speech with a recording chip, and three others--a peg board, two piano keys and videogame-type buttons--that measure reaction time and speed of movement.
The only "no" vote came from Texas congressman Louie Gohmert, who said it was madness for lawmakers to waste time on such a measure when more high-profile issues loomed, such as the federal debt.
But Mr Netanyahu, who was abroad when Mr Beilin's bill passed by 50 votes to 45 (it will need 61 votes in later stages), is confident that his presence and persuasion will see off the measure next time it comes up.
His bulky letters reveal his love for and dependence on Pierre to whom he confided endless details about his health, exercise regimes and work, explaining how he would measure the time he took to draw by playing Beethoven symphonies on the gramophone.
Still, researchers at IHME hope the study will be useful for counties to measure themselves over time.
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RVUs are supposed to measure how much time and physical effort a doctor requires to perform different clinical endeavors.
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And busy doctors may resort to the scale rather than take the time to use a tape measure correctly, Michos says.
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