Sentences with phrase «measuring system for»

Now we have a more sophisticated measuring system for the world's oceans.

I predrilled some holes in the top, using a small block of wood as my measuring system for where the hooks would go.

NEW - WAVE SUNSCREENS: Consumers are still waiting for a reliable measuring system for how well a sunscreen blocks UV - A rays.

A measured system for punishing individuals engaged in scientific fraud should be developed.

There has been no global warming in 5 of the 6 most commonly used measuring systems for over 6 years and on the outlier for 17 years.

Not exact matches

In the coming year, the Government will undertake a review of the tax system to determine whether it works well for Canadians, with a view to eliminating poorly targeted and inefficient tax measures.

That way, iSpot can teach its system to search for combinations of words like «Solo» and «trailer,» «commercial,» or «movie» to measure the online chatter about the ad.

The banking system was hyper - competitive and quick to take risks in pursuit of profits; policymakers aggressively pushed homeownership through measures such as tax breaks for mortgage interest payments; and weak recourse laws let mortgage defaulters off the hook.

Charles Engler, CEO of Visual In - Seitz, a 40 - employee multimedia - presentation company in Rochester, N.Y., measures the time it takes his computer - support staff to respond to requests for repairs — as well as overall system downtime.

Syriza, which broke a two - party - led system, has disappointed some on the left for implementing austerity measures and the reputation of the mainstream parties remains damaged following what is perceived as years of failed promises.

(The health system uses a number of surrogate measures along the way to make sure that their members are on the right track — for example, lowering their blood sugar if they are at risk of diabetes.)

By establishing a standard for measuring such efforts, B Corporations are a step in that direction — giving social entrepreneurs a place in the legal infrastructure of the corporate system and investors a framework for assessing their performance.

The system consists of custom vital signs monitors that continuously measure six core health parameters and wirelessly transmit that data to Android tablets for doctors and nurses.

«These new measures to optimize and reform visa system will enhance the openness in drawing in foreign talents, attracting more of them to participate in China's advancement, and boost China's overall capacity for innovation,» he said.

But S.Y. Lee, a spokesman for the DHS, told Fortune that the government agency coordinates «national efforts to strengthen the security and resilience of critical infrastructure, working with our federal and industry partners across the country to raise awareness about evolving threats and promote measures to reduce risks to systems we all rely on.»

He called for the creation of an international fundraising mechanism to attract private investors, and a separate system to measure the credit risks associated with each project.

The International Monetary Fund for years has documented that asking ever healthier taxpayers to wait a little longer for their pension benefits is among the handful of measures that will allow developed economies to save their public retirement systems for bankruptcy.

For measuring offline goals, the tools can differ, such as collecting customer feedback in - store or through a POS system.

The official poverty measure also omits the impact of the tax system, including tax credits for working families like the EITC and Child Tax Credit (CTC).

The Spanish government has been noteworthy in its pursuit of well - directed actions to address Spain's debt and banking - system problems, and the Spanish public has demonstrated an understanding of the need for austerity and reform measures.

Indeed, it can be argued that the multi-party system was designed to ensure that genuine democracy, measured by outcomes for ordinary people, could never be achieved.

This has been the situation in Canada for the past seven years, as reflected in increasing levels of household indebtedness and elevated house prices — although, as I'll discuss later, regulatory measures have been used to mitigate the resulting financial system risks (Chart 2).3

Adjusting to the new systems also poses a challenge for all involved, as well as a fear of the unknown, especially with publishers keen to keeping proprietary measures as a selling point for advertisers.

impact summary — I capture and summarize four areas of impact in my evaluation — business impact (potential for the usual — revenues, profit, etc.), social impact (that which can be counted), qualitative impact (impact that is difficult to measure, but can be captured through stories), and macro impact (the broader systems - level impact they are trying to achieve, but may be difficult to trace directly to the company)

«I'm similarly impressed by the fragility of our economic system, even though it's been reinforced with so many heavy measures by governments around the globe, ECB bond - buying programs and zero interest rate policies here in the U.S., for instance.»

The standard proxy for growth in debt - servicing capacity is GDP growth, but this is only valid in economies in which GDP growth data is a systems output that measures the underlying performance of the economy.

In that case, the number of bookshops, which is a systems output — generated organically by the size of the city, the rate of literacy, the income of residents, and other relevant factors — would serve as a proxy for literacy, while population or income would serve as proxies for whatever variable one wants to measure.

The landmark survey commissioned by the Broadbent Institute is the first study of its kind and size to measure Canadians» attitudes about voting system design and preference for electoral reform.

Transport Minister Lisa Raitt said through a spokeswoman that the government took a series of measures, both before and after the accident, including investing $ 100 million in the railway safety system, increasing fines for companies that broke the rules, and bringing in new whistleblower protection.

The residents say the judge's ruling opens the door to get some measure of compensation for everyone in Miami who paid for a hardened system but ended up roasting for days after Irma.

The most useful measure of marketing automation performance is conversion rate for 70 % of very successful system users.

Scalise was trying to win Trump's backing for a compromise to combine a modest bill meant to bolster reporting to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, with a measure requiring all states to recognize concealed - carry permits issued by other states.

For example, in a technical setting, one definition of scalability is: «a measure of the ability of a system to maintain its performance under an increasing load.»

The spending legislation, which was viewed as the last opportunity this year for Congress to enact major new gun restrictions before the midterm elections in November, included only some school safety measures and modest improvements to the background check system.

The product of these three factors provides an overall measure of the contagion risk that the bank poses for the financial system.»

The Magic Formula diverges from Graham's strategy by exchanging for Graham's absolute price and quality measures (i.e. price - to - earnings ratio below 10, and debt - to - equity ratio below 50 percent) a ranking system that seeks those stocks with the best combination of price and quality more akin to Buffett's value investing philosophy.

Proponents note that the goal of the new measures is to establish a fair tax system for everyone.

QuadrigaCX employs some of the most advances security measures in the Bitcoin industry, including the use of Cold Storage for the majority of the Bitcoins within our system.

For starters, ensure your marketing analytics system can connect to your CRM, so you are able to measure contact generation and the sales lifecycle, and attribute that value back to the originating marketing campaigns or efforts.

Since coming to power at the end of 2015, a minority socialist Portuguese government has overcome initial skepticism among market participants and successfully introduced measures to reduce its budget deficit and reform the country's banking system, providing greater stability for investors.

The SFP allowed for a vast increase in t - bill issuance and was intended as an emergency measure to improve liquidity in the financial system.

While these systems are difficult to encapsulate in a single measure, a traditional way to look at bank liquidity is to look at their holdings of cash plus others assets which the Reserve Bank would accept in exchange for ES funds (Graph 3).

As students walked out of the classrooms, the House passed the bipartisan STOP School Violence Act, a school safety measure that provides $ 50 million to schools for training programs and revamped reporting systems.

For Congressman Patrick McHenry, who co-sponsored the bill with New York Congressman Greg Meeks, the measure «marks an important step towards modernizing our financial system and ensuring financial inclusion for all Americans.&raqFor Congressman Patrick McHenry, who co-sponsored the bill with New York Congressman Greg Meeks, the measure «marks an important step towards modernizing our financial system and ensuring financial inclusion for all Americans.&raqfor all Americans.»

Then, too, Christians are convinced that the church can no longer play its traditional role in regard to the poor — the role of assistance, partial response, individual aid, palliative measures — because, as they see it, the problem is no longer that of the poor individual but of the system; and to ameliorate the situation of some poor people is in fact to reinforce the system, and to end injustice for one individual is to refrain from combating social injustice.

One of the major thrusts of this Asian Consultation organised by the CCA is the arsenal of measures by which the menace of capitalist appetites of giant corporations and their global operations may be stemmed so as to secure for all persons a fair share of the work, wealth and happiness as a sine qua non of a just world system.

A series of directions and some of the measures proposed, could appear identical for defenders of the system as such and for its critics.

To the extent that a society has adopted capitalism but has not put into place these measures to protect its public and to provide for those in need, this is an economic system that can only be called irresponsible capitalism.

I think the proposed system for measuring teen angst would work better than the Devotion Detector.

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).