National measurements

Regional measurements

International measurements

Setting standards

By Continental standards, the level of violence over religion was not high, but the casualties included King Charles I and Archbishop of Canterbury William Laud.

This is clearly an extremely sound investment.

There are thousands of parameters of water quality.

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standards exist.

The problem is that in a world of universal benchmarking, the legitimacy of solutions will stem more than ever from their cultural acceptability and their efficiency.

This is the wrong approach.

It was, undeniably, a political failure.

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

That would be nothing short of disastrous.

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

To describe the struggle against international terrorism as World War IV, as the leading American neo conservative Norman Podhoretz does in his new book, is wrongheaded in any number of ways.

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

Monitoring should relate to both ecological and economic parameters.

By any standards, an FMCT is ripe for negotiation.

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

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

Thus, a key change should be to distinguish between the IMF s financial measures and its analytical functions, especially the surveillance of exchange rates and other sources of global financial risk.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

UNFPA also recommended including additional dimensions to the proposed benchmarks referring to the management of performance and contracts.

Progress in developing and using benchmarks and indicators, particularly ecological indicators, remains modest.

It occurs at all these different scales, first of all, from very, very small to very, very large.

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.

The death of the trainer is a tragedy, and one can only have sympathy for her family. But the incident raises broader questions was the attack deliberate?

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.

Meanwhile, they are available at the online library of the European Committee for Standardization (CEN).

Mr. Bernardo Calzadilla Sarmiento, Director, ISO Development and Training Programme, International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland

The Unit itself intends to use that benchmarking framework in future reviews of management and administration of the Latin American arm of the World Health Organization (WHO), known as the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), and on its report on the use of results based management in peacekeeping operations of the United Nations.

More fundamentally, however, Chinese doctors who use traditional medicine argue that outcome measures of acupuncture as a treatment for stroke should be different from conventional measures used in Western trials, because the theory of acupuncture is different.