More recent metrics have tried to incorporate a wider range of quality of life indicators.

The most recent G7 finance ministers meeting in October was an utter failure.

National measurements

Regional measurements

International measurements

There are thousands of parameters of water quality.

Setting standards

A convention is a set of agreed, stipulated, or generally accepted standards, norms, social norms, or criteria, often taking the form of a custom.

In the implementation of Goal 8 of the Millennium Development Goals, which addresses the special needs of the least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island developing States, a specific set of measurements and indicators should be applied to quantify progress.

This is clearly an extremely sound investment.

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standards exist.

Measures are derived from the records in the fact table and dimensions are derived from the dimension tables.

Monitoring should relate to both ecological and economic parameters.

This type of measurement can be very misleading from a human rights perspective.

This is the wrong approach.

It was, undeniably, a political failure.

(b) The B I should include indicators for processes.

It is one of the summary measures of population health, known as health expectancies, composite measures of health that combine mortality and morbidity data to represent overall population health on a single indicator.

BERKELEY By any economic measure, we are living in disappointing times.

That would be nothing short of disastrous.

The results based on these measures, however, are not necessarily consistent.

It wasn t Switzerland, but, by anyone s measure, it was a genuine democracy.

Iraq also argues that several of the parameters used by Saudi Arabia in its damage assessment are inappropriate.

By virtually any measure, official Japanese debt is the highest in the world.

By any standards, an FMCT is ripe for negotiation.

Not all investors will be able to interpret even these simple measures of the outlook for an investment.

Equivalent to 1 of US GDP, it is large by all accounts.

(Indeed, by most accounts, it is about to default.)

A compendium of existing benchmarking approaches for sustainable land management and environment information systems should assist African countries in establishing guidelines and selecting the basis on which standardization of benchmarks could be most helpful to the implementation process.

It was thus a sizeable city by any standards and much larger than the Roman towns of Gaul or Britannia.

These criteria are specific however, they are not particularly sensitive and are more useful for research than for clinical use.

By any standards this is a huge commitment on behalf of the Irish people, but I know that they, and especially the young people, will welcome it.

The mathematics of quantum mechanics tells us this is how the world works at tiny scales.

But North Korea s test this month was by all measures the real thing.

On this, admittedly subjective, measure, Somaliland qualifies as a nation.

During the impact of Hidalgo, the seismometers will reach saturation due to the high accelerations.

As fiscal metrics become increasingly intricate, monitoring efforts will become ever easier to undermine.

In general, green accounting may end up being more biased than conventional GDP measures.

Whatever the particular values of leading candidates, this is undoubtedly progress.

Service statistics need to be improved generally and there are a range of particularly difficult measurement problems associated with services

September 11, 2001, was a terrible tragedy by any measure, but it was not a historical turning point.

We maintain that, put that together as a project to really chart the universe across all scales.

These measures include damage to health, drug dependency, economic costs and crime.

(c) The project activities should include the B I being used by other working groups.

(b) The production of guidelines on methodology for building multi scale desertification EWSs.