Not exact matches
We may never really know: For only the
second time since the beginning of the reconstruction effort in 2002, US Forces - Afghanistan has classified and restricted once - public information regarding the state of Afghan security forces, including «casualties, personnel strength, attrition, capability assessments, and operational readiness of equipment» — all key
measures of the country's security woes.
For the
second time, Inc. crunched the data to find the fastest - growing private businesses in Europe, as
measured by three - year revenue growth.
Instead of only logging my heart's activity only when prompted or at seemingly sporadic
times, Fitbit has figured out a way to
measure my heart rate using an optical heart monitor every five
seconds without causing battery life to suffer.
It senses both free fall and impact, and
measures the amount of
time following the impact before someone starts to move again — 30
seconds to a minute without motion usually means that the wearer fell, and is in need of assistance or medical help.
Since Gallup started
measuring this in 1998, that's only the
second time ownership has been this low.
Google takes
time duration as an indirect
measure of the value of the content of a page; for example, if you have a blog post that averages 30
seconds of visit
time versus one that averages 10 minutes of visit
time, the latter is clearly a superior piece.
Combining safety, performance, and efficiency, Model S has reset the world's expectations for the car of the 21st century with the longest range of any electric vehicle, over-the-air software updates that make it better over
time, and a record 0 - 60 mph acceleration
time of 2.28
seconds as
measured by Motor Trend.
With one week remaining in the
second quarter, it marks a good
time to
measure revisions to earnings estimates for companies in the S&P 500 for the
second quarter.
Data through June 2012, released today by S&P Dow Jones Indices for its S&P / Case - Shiller Home Price Indices, the leading
measure of U.S. home prices, showed that all three headline composites ended the
second quarter of 2012 with positive annual growth rates for the first
time since the summer of 2010.
The
second problem is that in order to get some of its debt absolved, Puerto Rico agreed to impose the harsh austerity
measures — reducing education and health spending, for instance — that hurt growth at the same
time that thousands are fleeing to the mainland in search of economic opportunity.
Since in Newtonian physics
time and space were considered absolute objective schemas of reference, it was possible to
measure speed in terms of so many miles per hour or feet per
second.
We observe that at the lowest level of the evolutionary process,
time is contingent in the sense that electronic and atomic radiations are short - lived,
measured in millionths of a
second; the movement is chaotic, diffused, haphazard, indeterminate as shown in the cloud chamber or the Brownian movement of molecules; the
time is transient because entropy takes over; the movements are lost instead of being collected in the thing and perfective of the thing.
Commonsensically, we
measure the passage of
time by means of such quantities as
seconds and days.
Select a
measuring rod and construct a
second measuring rod of a material differing from the first but otherwise identical; place the two rods together so that their endpoints coincide; and move the pair of rods about in the space -
time continuum.
Didn't forget anything and
measured so unsure what happened any ideas before I attempt it a
second time anyone?
The first pass through the machine yielded a quantity of juice but the pulp had rather large pieces of flesh, so I ran the pulp through a
second time before
measuring either the juice or the pulp.
While you're
measuring out the ingredients for the cake, just
measure out enough for the
second batch at the same
time so it's easier the
second time around.
The mass flow meter does not
measure the volume per unit
time (e.g., cubic meters per
second) passing through the device; it
measures the mass per unit
time (e.g., kilograms per
second) flowing through the device.
The
second time I made them smaller, using a
measuring spoon and not an ice - cream scoop to make sure I still have some leftover for the photo - shoot.
The
second and third
time I adjusted the recipe to use a whole can of coconut milk (poured the coconut milk in a
measuring cup and scaled the other ingredients accordingly).
For a sport that
measures lap
times to the thousandth of a
second, you wouldn't expect there to be many occasions where two cars set identical lap
times.
There is.5 of a
second between each light, for a total of 1.5
seconds between the first yellow and the green; the quality of a driver's start is
measured in the amount of
time that elapses after the last yellow light.
A
second new component to the pace of game program is the addition of timers that will
measure non-game action and break
time between innings and pitching changes during each Major League game.
He ran a 4.44 -
second 40 as
timed by lasers, and a 4.32 as
measured by a hand -
timed stopwatch, per the event's records.
While hang
time is measured in seconds, no unit of time is small enough to accurately calibrate Zheng T
time is
measured in
seconds, no unit of
time is small enough to accurately calibrate Zheng T
time is small enough to accurately calibrate Zheng
TimeTime.
Francesco Totti, club icon, the league's
second all -
time leading scorer and by most
measures, the best Italian to ever play the game, the man as synonymous with the city as the wolf - child for whom it was named, was dropped from the squad ahead of Saturday's match.
Operating in a roving role in support of John Carew, he spent most of his
time on the left but was able to flit from flank to flank and set up Stiliyan Petrov for Villa's
second goal with a delicately
measured cross from the right - hand side.
I am expecting my
second child in a month, and although my doctor has said it would be fine for me to try a VBAC this
time, when this baby started to
measure big again, my husband and I decided a c - section would be the right way again this
time.
With my
second child, I overproduced again, and this
time I took active
measures to make sure I wouldn't have to toss the extras after the allotted six months had passed.
At the
time, Lana was the
second smallest micro-preemie born at Children's, weighing just 12 oz and
measuring 10.5 inches.
At the
time of the
second postnatal measurement, no infants
measured > 2z score units below a mean of 0.
It uses a super accurate sensor to
measure the water 5
times per
second and quickly tells you what you need to know.
The
time - constraint on referendums should, then, be balanced by a
second measure.
Lord Strathclyde, the Conservative leader of the Lords, ostensibly supported the
measure in a tongue - in - cheek interview in the Financial
Times, but then stoked the rebellion by saying a reformed
second chamber would be expensive, possess greater power and, if it had existed in the 1980s, would have blocked Thatcherite privatisation.
When he vetoed the legislation in October — the
second time in as many years — Cuomo had said he was willing to discuss the
measure in the context of the state budget.
Second: Timeliness of budget adoption is among the dumbest of
measures on a governor's power; very bad budgets can happen on
time, and that is no barometer of a governor's relative power.
The value of all this free
time, if you tried to pay for it using the old model of 30 -
second paid TV ads, can't be
measured, but it's surely greater than the $ 84 million in public financing received by John McCain for the general election.
Lehto's detailed chronology of «individual lift devices» is on the dry side, but you learn the sober truth about why these machines never took off: Flight
times were
measured in
seconds rather than minutes; the devices often cost as much as a luxury car; and there was no elegant solution for a malfunctioning jetpack in midair.
But actually
measuring those
times and distances to the accuracy needed to detect differences of billionths of a
second (1 nanosecond = 1 billionth of a
second) is no easy task.
The researchers
measured emissions rates of 34 grams of methane per
second — 100 to 1,000
times greater than those estimates.
While it is a major technical accomplishment just to have
measured whether mercury gas is going into or out of the peatland 10
times a
second for a year, the result of the mass balance is what is really remarkable.
But «leap
seconds are a nuisance», says Elisa Felicitas Arias, the director of the
Time Department at the International Bureau of Weights and
Measures (BIPM) in Sèvres, France.
«Millisecond pulsars have extremely predictable arrival
times, and our instruments are able to
measure them to within a ten - millionth of a
second,» said Maura McLaughlin, a radio astronomer at West Virginia University in Morgantown and member of the NANOGrav team.
To complement seismometers, several groups of researchers are assembling networks of real -
time GPS sensors that
measure their locations every
second within 5 to 10 millimetres, far more accurate than consumer GPS.
The
second particle, in other words, can be precisely
measured at all
times.
Felicitas Arias of the International Bureau of Weights and
Measures suggests we stop adding leap
seconds to coordinated universal
time (UTC), which is based on atomic clocks, to compensate for its drift from astronomical
time, mainly on the grounds that telecommunications systems do not work well with leap
seconds (17 December 2011, p 27).
(A millisecond is one thousandth of a
second) The length of a day, which is
measured by the
time it takes Earth to rotate once on its axis, can be
measured to an accuracy of about 10 microseconds, or 10 millionths of a
second.
JILA researchers have designed a microscope instrument so stable that it can accurately
measure the 3D movement of individual molecules over many hours — hundreds of
times longer than the current limit
measured in
seconds.
The satellite is destined for an orbit 438 miles above Earth and will use a spectrometer to
measure CO2 concentrations in the air 24
times per
second
An instrument on Rosetta is already
measuring 5 liters per
second of water vapor production, but that rate is expected to rise to 500 liters per
second by the
time 67P makes its closest approach to the sun in August 2015.