Sentences with phrase «measured in a number of ways»

Openreach's success can be measured in a number of ways.

Yields can be measured in a number of ways, including coupon yield, or the stated interest rate of the bond, and yield to maturity, which is the total rate of return when an investor holds the bond to maturity.

Christian acquiescence in this fate can be measured in any number of ways: by the extent to which the Church renounces her inherent «platonism,» thinking and speaking in the language of psychology, sociology, economics, and politics rather than philosophy (metaphysics) and theology; by the tendency to view the Church not first as sacrament transcending political order, but as a mere mediating institution within that order; by the «political» or «clerical» temptation to equate true ecclesial reform with institutional or curial reform.

Motor (movement) symptoms are being measured in a number of ways, including high - tech eye movement tracking and other sophisticated tools.

The success of a school can be measured in a number of ways.

Yields can be measured in a number of ways, including coupon yield, or the stated interest rate of the bond, and yield to maturity, which is the total rate of return when an investor holds the bond to maturity.

Temperatures aloft can be measured in a number of ways, two of which are useful for climate monitoring: by radiosondes (balloon - borne instrument packages, including thermometers, released daily or twice daily at a network of observing stations throughout the world), and by satellite measurements of microwave radiation emitted by oxygen gas in the lower to mid-troposphere, taken with an instrument known as the Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU).5 The balloon measurements are taken at the same Greenwich mean times each day, whereas the times of day of the satellite measurements for a given location drift slowly with changes in the satellite orbits.

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But TV ratings and digital broadcasts are measured in totally different ways, and when Next Level Media broke the numbers apart, it concluded that at least four times as many people watched an NBA Finals game on average as tuned in for League of Legends finals.

Another way of looking at housing and expansions is to measure the YoY improvement in the raw numbers.

Product success can be measured in numerous ways, including the rate of user signups, the number of popular features, the frequency of use and the duration of sessions.

A one - year investigation by the state's weight and measure inspectors — yes, they exist and they're tough — found Whole Foods had gouged customers in a number of ways.

And yet the flight to physics rather gives the game away, since measured any way you like — volume of papers, number of working researchers, total amount of funding — deductive, theory - building physics in the mold of Newton and Lagrange, Maxwell and Einstein, is a tiny fraction of modern science as a whole.

As an atheist who believes in «Choice» (I dislike the idea of abortion but see the need for people to be able to opt for it) and polygamy (marriage should be for any number of consenting adults regardless of gender) and believes that the idea of draconian anti-gun measures is anathema as it takes away an individual's right to live the way he wants to live, I think that if believing in a deity makes a person treat other people nicer then we should leave that person and his beliefs alone.

Assuming that these concepts are operationally defined (independence or dependence) it is highly likely that childhood independence, defined here as some measurement of a child's ability to act alone or to make a decision alone, or to solve a problem alone, or to comfort itself, is likely produced in any number of ways, and it may be an accurate description pertinent only to the domain within which it is being measured.

In return the Liberal Democrats have secured a number of measures which will penalise the rich in other wayIn return the Liberal Democrats have secured a number of measures which will penalise the rich in other wayin other ways.

While a number of GOP senators voted for the SAFE Act in 2013, other Republican senators were opposed, and five years later, still want to repeal the measure, saying there are other ways to keep schoolchildren safe.

«I think we will enact a number of measures in a bipartisan way,» said Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, R - Fairfield.

Taking account of measures already in the pipeline, the government is still more than half way toward the astonishing target of halving by 2010 the number of children in poverty which they inherited from the Conservatives.

Francis Maude, the Cabinet Office minister, said the Census, which takes place every 10 years, was an expensive and inaccurate way of measuring the number of people in Britain.

It's worth keeping an eye on the progress of the NAME bill - the measure that paves the way for a referendum on AV and a reduction in the number of Commons seats.

It's a clever and concise way of capturing two key pieces of information: the number of publications and their influence, as measured by citations in other peer - reviewed articles.

A team led by Sae Woo Nam of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colo., and Blas Cabrera of Stanford University has developed superconducting detectors that can measure photon numbers efficiently at telecommunication wavelengths with a negligible error rate, opening the way to secure quantum cryptography over a distance of 100 kilometers.

If you go by number of flights, then O'Hare is the world's busiest airport (881,933 flights in 2014), dethroning Hartsfield - Jackson Atlanta International Airport (868,359) after 10 years at the top - by this way of measuring.

The way to measure this is to look for antibodies to the virus in a large number of people not known to have been infected.

Participants in the studies were from fertility clinics and research centres, and sperm quality was measured in three different ways: motility (the ability of sperm to move properly towards an egg), viability (the proportion of sperm that were alive) and concentration (the number of sperm per unit of semen).

In this way, the effect of vaccines or drugs (for example) can be tested: the more effective the active ingredient is, the smaller the number of cells that are destroyed by the viruses and the lower the measured resistance change will be.

While it is well known that some individuals within the same community may be exposed to a different number of mosquito bites, very few studies have been carried out to measure the causes of that heterogeneity, or variance, to understand its impact on the control of vector - borne diseases in a way that is relevant to decision making.

In the end, the USPTO will measure the pilot program's success in a number of ways, Stoll sayIn the end, the USPTO will measure the pilot program's success in a number of ways, Stoll sayin a number of ways, Stoll says.

He did this by measuring not only the energies and momenta of the electrons, but the number of electrons coming out of the material with particular energies over a wide range of temperatures, and after the electronic properties of the material had been altered in various ways.

Drastic measures This desperate situation has led conservationists in Sabah to a desperate conclusion: that the only way to maintain the rhino population here is to capture as many as possible of the remaining animals — which may number as few as 30 — and subject them to assisted reproductive technology.

It recommended ways to improve K - 12 education, big changes in high - skill immigration rules, and the creation of 30,000 new scholarships to increase the number of scientists in the pipeline, among other measures.

Measuring inflammation Our growing understanding of inflammation's role in atherosclerosis doesn't diminish the importance of cholesterol — you still have to keep that «bad» number down and the «good» number up — but it does present another way to anticipate cardiovascular disease.

Human growth hormone is not to be dosed to people based on their weight — alcohol tolerance and resistance to anesthesia are at times measured that way because a heavier person has a larger volume that can dilute the alcohol / anesthesia before it hits the system in a way to effect changes in the capacity for normal body function — changes that will only last for a set number of hours.

You can use this number as a way of measuring your improvement, test yourself again in 10 weeks after you ahve been following an exercise programme.

By definition, and depending upon who you're talking to, «Success» can be measured in a number of different ways.

There is no single right way of calculating numbers like this, and the human toll in the immediate aftermath and long term are impossible to measure.

The quality of our public schools has been measured in innumerable ways, and stakeholders may draw on any number of sources for rankings to support a particular agenda.

Aaron Benavot, Director of the EFA GMR said: «Lacking any other way of measuring gender equality, we have focused on getting equal numbers of boys and girls in school.

Participation in afterschool programs is influencing academic performance in a number of ways, including better attitudes toward school and higher educational aspirations; higher school attendance rates and lower tardiness rates; less disciplinary action, such as suspension; lower dropout rates; better performance in school, as measured by achievement test scores and grades; significant gains in academic achievement test scores; greater on - time promotion; improved homework completion; and deeper engagement in learning.

Like a rapidly growing number of schools around the nation, Ms. Dubos said, hers is considering using portfolios as a way of measuring student performance in writing.

A neat, common way to measure the breadth and impact of a scholar's work is to tally works in descending order of how often each is cited, and then identify the point at which the number of oft - cited works exceeds the cite count for the least - frequently cited.

What gets in the way in part, Becker laments, is Minnesota's extensive number of academic standards, a heavy emphasis on standardized tests as a single measure of success, and an exhausting number of state mandates.

In this spring's budget cycle, Republican lawmakers passed a number of changes for public schools, including easing rules to obtain a teaching license in the field of technical education and revamping the way schools in Wisconsin are measureIn this spring's budget cycle, Republican lawmakers passed a number of changes for public schools, including easing rules to obtain a teaching license in the field of technical education and revamping the way schools in Wisconsin are measurein the field of technical education and revamping the way schools in Wisconsin are measurein Wisconsin are measured.

Since Evers was first elected in 2009, Republicans have all but eliminated teachers unions» collective bargaining power, expanded the number of private voucher and independent charter schools, fought Evers» adoption of the Common Core State Standards and changed the way school success is measured.

While this measure will not make it possible to compare progress across city initiatives in any meaningful way, it does provide a common indicator that can serve as a proxy for a number of factors that influence child wellbeing, including health, mental health, and family stability.

Students learn about uses for numbers, including counting, measuring, and scaling in a way that makes new types of numbers make sense.

You can also write place - value goals in a way that measures the number of correct student responses, rather the percentage of accuracy, such as:

Another way to measure the «college readiness» of graduating students is the number of passing scores in Advanced Placement courses and exams.

For example, many voucher proponents point to other measures of voucher effectiveness, such as increased parent satisfaction.59 The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, a strong proponent for expanding voucher programs as a way to increase enrollment in parochial schools, wrote in a letter to Sen. Marco Rubio (R - FL) and Rep. Todd Rokita (R - IN) that «parental surveys, the number of families renewing scholarships, student graduation and matriculation, and basic accounting requirements, for example, are sufficient to assess and maintain the integrity of the program.&raquin parochial schools, wrote in a letter to Sen. Marco Rubio (R - FL) and Rep. Todd Rokita (R - IN) that «parental surveys, the number of families renewing scholarships, student graduation and matriculation, and basic accounting requirements, for example, are sufficient to assess and maintain the integrity of the program.&raquin a letter to Sen. Marco Rubio (R - FL) and Rep. Todd Rokita (R - IN) that «parental surveys, the number of families renewing scholarships, student graduation and matriculation, and basic accounting requirements, for example, are sufficient to assess and maintain the integrity of the program.&raquIN) that «parental surveys, the number of families renewing scholarships, student graduation and matriculation, and basic accounting requirements, for example, are sufficient to assess and maintain the integrity of the program.»

One way Jaguar officials measure quality is in the number of defects found per 100 cars.