Sentences with phrase «largely useful measure»

While sometimes misused by employers, employee criminal background checks are a widely accepted and largely useful measure used by employers to make better employment decisions.

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It might seem like the PE ratio is very useful, but it's actually pretty useless as a measure used to make buy or sell decisions, and taken largely on its own, pretty useless becomes utterly and completely useless.

It's only useful for doing what it was original designed to do: Measure the aggregate production and consumption of a nation — which also happens to be a useful measurement of ecological throughput, the relative amount of resources used, given that despite hopeful claims that economic growth can be decoupled from growth in resource consumption and energy usage, this has historically and currently not been the case, and is unlikely to ever fully or even largely be the case.

1950s: Research on military applications of radar and infrared radiation promotes advances in radiative transfer theory and measurements = > Radiation math — Studies conducted largely for military applications give accurate values of infrared absorption by gases = > CO2 greenhouse — Nuclear physicists and chemists develop Carbon - 14 analysis, useful for dating ancient climate changes = > Carbon dates, for detecting carbon from fossil fuels in the atmosphere, and for measuring the rate of ocean turnover = > CO2 greenhouse — Development of digital computers affects many fields including the calculation of radiation transfer in the atmosphere = > Radiation math, and makes it possible to model weather processes = > Models (GCMs)-- Geological studies of polar wandering help provoke Ewing - Donn model of ice ages = > Simple models — Improvements in infrared instrumentation (mainly for industrial processes) allow very precise measurements of atmospheric CO2 = > CO2 greenhouse.