U.S. payments volume, a measure of the total dollar amount of transactions made with debit and credit cards, fell by three percent in April and remained flat over the first four weeks of May compared with last year.
The Scripps Research Institute can measure the volume of coral reefs underwater for the first time without disturbing the reef.
Social media can measure not only volume, but sentiment (Trendrr lists a positive comment percentage, for instance), true engagement and taste-making.
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Media executives say they don't yet have the data to directly measure the correlation between volume of social media mentions and actual viewership ratings.
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This broad measure of risk in the Eurozone volume fell -0.4% compared with the previous week.
Liquor must list alcohol content by volume and may also list proof, a measure of alcoholic strength.
What provides some measure of safety is the sheer volume of people that have taken to the streets.
In fact, some of the most successful entrepreneurs I know track this measure weekly, even daily for high volume businesses.
Doctors also assess lung performance using a measure called Vo2 max - the highest volume of oxygen a person can consume during exercise.
As no figures are available for the volume of drugs being traded, the best way to measure it is to look at what is happening to drug prices north of the border.
But because of their dominance in the middle of the park and the sheer volume of chances, Sunderland boss Steve Bruce must have been staggered and sickened in equal measure when the visitors took the lead five minutes after the break.
Three weeks ago, Stack observed two back-to-back days of extremely lopsided volume in declining stocks--volume of such a magnitude that September 2001 and October 1987 were the last two times this measure of sentiment was so low.
Computers then measure how a change in a vehicle's price, incentives or features will affect sales volume, where it's losing ground to competitors and, ultimately, profits.
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