For example, when Dean talks, the ticker says, U.S. Suspect gave 'actionable intel.

These opportunities also include some specific export subsidies, non actionable subsidies and certain tariff increases.

Metrics for response time, system availability and network performance will be tracked.

To demonstrate their seriousness, Japanese officials moved quickly to commit to measurable metrics.

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

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

It was also noted that the next thematic evaluation should result in a report with actionable conclusions and recommendations.

These are reforms that are within reach reforms that are actionable if we can garner the necessary political will.

Doing Business has been a leader in synthesizing subjective and quantitative data to create understandable metrics.

Humanitarian funding can and should be improved through the setting up of a humanitarian fund which is rapidly actionable and adequately funded.

The PMO is the source of documentation, guidance and metrics on the practice of project management and execution.

Metrics for determining the degree of rangeland and habitat improvement should be developed and tracked at different stages.

The desirable outcome of their work would be actionable plans to drastically enhance the scope, timeliness and effectiveness of the subregional offices' outreach.

Thus, support was expressed for the principle that damage to the environment per se should be actionable and subject to prompt and adequate compensation.

Tor metrics show a significant increase in the number of Iranians using Tor bridges since the temporary block on native Tor.

In response, many companies are now beginning to provide metrics to their customers for their behavior vis à vis that particular vendor.

The Department's overall aim was to produce objective threat and risk assessments that provided actionable guidance to the field while respecting confidentiality and maintaining the Organization's independence.

We need a new standard that requires companies to report not just their financial metrics, but also their performance on social, developmental, and environmental issues.

But as we started asking ourselves about how we were addressing the higher needs of our employees and our customers, I realized we had no metrics.

Implementation of these evolving social goals through local government agencies by specific officials is a daunting task that requires profound changes in roles and performance metrics.

That means there's no waiting for chemical reactions to take place, no need to use reagents that can run out and no need to be an expert to get actionable information.

That regrettable situation calls for a rethinking of ways and means to make the mandate of the offices in the subregions meaningful and actionable and to establish them as valuable developmental partners.

(b) ECA headquarters should define and publicize as a matter of course the meaningful and actionable role of subregional offices in all its major initiatives (paragraphs 35 39) (SP 04 002 008).

Other health metrics are equally disappointing, with data indicating poorer health outcomes for Americans throughout their lives. And, for at least three decades, matters have been getting worse.

In June 2010, FactSet acquired Market Metrics, a market research firm situated in the United States that is solely focused on surveys conducted on advisor and insurance products.

I had told the Council in June that Croatia would be considered to be cooperating fully if either Gotovina was in The Hague or if Croatia provided me with actionable intelligence on his whereabouts.

So we started asking ourselves What kind of less obvious metrics could we use to actually evaluate our employees' sense of meaning, or our customers' sense of emotional connection with us?

He said that they have a science behind that art, and they've actually created four essential pillars, nine key indicators and 72 different metrics that help them to measure their GNH.

But changes in society and the economy may have heightened the problems, at the same time that advances in economics and statistical techniques may have provided opportunities to improve our metrics.

But all of these metrics fail to account for factors like research and development, technological innovation, and commercialization, which are now more indicative of future success than nuclear arsenals or economic size.

The WEF currently is developing metrics that could evaluate national subsystems across five factors of resilience redundancy, robustness, resourcefulness, response, and recovery by combining perception based data with publicly available statistical data.

So, we're not just talking about physiologic metrics the key measurements of vital signs, and all those things in physiology but also all the imaging that one could look at in your smartphone.

Today s crisis indicates that a set of rigid rules allows resourceful financial institutions to mask riskiness in their portfolios or shift things around to make standard risk metrics appear better than they really are.

On July 30, the Tor project reported users couldn't access regular Tor connections in Iran. Tor metrics also showed a drop in the number of users connecting to the service on a daily basis.

Companies are now busily developing metrics for attention the number of Twitter or Google followers or Facebook friends reputation points for being a good seller, buyer, or reviewer Klout scores game player status and the like.

And a very important piece of research came out on Friday from the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle showing that almost 50 percent of the fall in child mortality can be attributed to female education.

While the development of these metrics is in its early stages, the ultimate aim is to develop a practical diagnostic tool that would function as an MRI for national decision makers to assess their countries resilience to global risks.

(b) Transformation of client service units (regional offices and the Global Interregional Project Division) into profit centres activity based costing clear targets governed by meticulous performance metrics no cross subsidisation between the centres under performing centres will be closed or merged

And this one, which is really telling, this was from July, this cover article The personal metrics movement goes way beyond diet and exercise. It's about tracking every facet of life, from sleep to mood to pain, Well, I tried this device.

And what I'm going to do in the next five minutes is take you through a process where we tried to create a reasonably photo realistic computer generated face, using some computer graphics technology we've developed, and also some collaborators at a company called Image Metrics.

See also Pharmacoeconomics Global health Health policy References External links Global burden of disease at WHO website GBD Publications from Harvard School of Public Health Global Burden of Disease Mental Disorders and Illicit Drug Use Expert Group at National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (University of New South Wales, Australia) Global Burden of Disease at Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation website