Ohloh, a web service founded in 2004 and launched in 2006, monitors the development activity in the free software community, providing detailed metrics and quantitative analyses on the growth and popularity of projects and programming languages.

Ohloh did an analysis of the source code repository and compared the commit activity for the two years before March 2012 and concluded that the project has a mature, well established code base, with increasing year-over-year development activity and a large active development team.

The field of chemistry uses analysis in at least three ways: to identify the components of a particular chemical compound ( qualitative analysis ), to identify the proportions of components in a mixture ( quantitative analysis ), and to break down chemical processes and examine chemical reactions between elements of matter.

Qualitative analysis gives an indication of the identity of the chemical species in the sample and quantitative analysis determines the amount of one or more of these components.

In 2010 an analysis of available genetic data, mapping them to phylogenetic trees, gave " firm quantitative support for the unity of life.

It draws heavily from quantitative methods such as operations research and programming and from statistical methods such as regression analysis in the absence of certainty and perfect knowledge.

For the quantitative analysis, ten articles were selected at random – circumcision, Charles Drew, Galileo, Philip Glass, heart disease, IQ, panda bear, sexual harassment, Shroud of Turin and Uzbekistan – and letter grades of A – D or F were awarded in four categories: coverage, accuracy, clarity, and recency.

Many researchers combine qualitative and quantitative forms of analysis to better answer questions which cannot be studied in laboratory settings, particularly in the social sciences and in education.

Faraday is also credited to have coined the terms electrolyte, electrolysis, among many others while he studied quantitative analysis of electrochemical reactions.

Using this diazomethane, mixtures of carboxylic acids can be converted to their methyl esters in near quantitative yields, e. g., for analysis by gas chromatography.

" More precisely, it is " the quantitative analysis of actual economic phenomena based on the concurrent development of theory and observation, related by appropriate methods of inference.

A quantitative analysis of these effects is based on the Fresnel equations, but with additional calculations to account for interference.

A quantitative definition of 4GL has been set by Capers Jones, as part of his work on function point analysis.

The term is used to distinguish such analysis from other types of investment analysis, such as quantitative analysis and technical analysis.

* Managers may also include fundamental factors along with technical factors into computer models ( quantitative analysis ).

The assessment may use a subjective qualitative analysis based on informed opinion, or where reliable dollar figures and historical information is available, the analysis may use quantitative analysis.

Use qualitative analysis or quantitative analysis.

This can reduce the validity of an alternative explanation to a limited sub-class of lift generating conditions, or might not allow a quantitative analysis.

Advanced the concepts, theory and method on system science: open complex giant system, from qualitative to quantitative integration of Hall for Workshop of comprehensive and integrated system, and opened up a Chinese school of the Science of Complexity.

Note that 4NT is " unusual " only when the opponents open the bidding ; otherwise, 4NT is normally played as the Blackwood convention or a quantitative invitation to 6NT.

AP courses are usually open to all upperclassmen without any barring prerequisites — exceptions usually concern quantitative and foreign language courses.

Until now, it has been the source of qualitative insight rather than a method for quantitative predictions.

The formulation of theories about the governing laws of the universe has been central to the study of physics from very early on, with philosophy gradually yielding to systematic, quantitative experimental testing and observation as the source of verification.

Simple sequence repeats as a source of quantitative genetic variation.

The nuclear medicine computer may require millions of lines of source code to provide quantitative analysis packages for each of the specific imaging techniques available in nuclear medicine.

Quantitative analysts often come from physics, engineering, or mathematics backgrounds rather than economics-related fields, and quantitative analysis is a major source of employment for people with physics and mathematics Ph. Ds.

Methods of measuring cohesion vary from qualitative measures classifying the source text being analyzed using a rubric with a hermeneutics approach to quantitative measures which examine textual characteristics of the source code to arrive at a numerical cohesion score.

" Functional Food is a Natural or processed food that contains known biologically-active compounds which when in defined quantitative and qualitative amounts provides a clinically proven and documented health benefit, and thus, an important source in the prevention, management and treatment of chronic diseases of the modern age ".

The color rendering index ( CRI ) ( sometimes called color rendition index ), is a quantitative measure of the ability of a light source to reproduce the colors of various objects faithfully in comparison with an ideal or natural light source.

Showing this required hundreds of pages of hand analysis.

For large scale complex systems, hundreds if not thousands of maintenance actions can result from the failure analysis.

The principles of technical analysis are derived from hundreds of years of financial markets data.

Duncan Smith unveiled a new analysis which will show that hundreds of thousands of children will be lifted out of poverty if at least one of their parents works 35 hours a week earning the minimum wage.

Whilst most of the action appears to occur in Russia, a quick chronological analysis of the activities described in the books appears to show that the regiment depicted in the books fought in several places, hundreds of miles apart, at the same time.

The Synthetic Neurobiology group created reagents and devices for the analysis of brain circuits are in use by hundreds of biology labs around the world.

The moves were taken from hundreds of thousands of games between masters, from published analysis in the Chess Informant since 1966, and then compiled by notable chess players.

Membrane viral fusion proteins are ideal targets for SOC analysis, as they exhibit up to ~ 60 % ( hundreds of ) mutations in public data bases.

Crisis Group made important contributions during this period in early-warning bellringing in cases like Darfur and Ethiopia-Eritrea, supporting conflict mediation in situations like Southern Sudan, Kosovo and Aceh, making path-breaking recommendations on Israel-Palestine, Iran and Burma / Myanmar, analysing the different strands of Islamism, and generally providing timely and detailed field-based analysis and recommendations to policymakers on hundreds of separate conflict-related issues.

An analysis presented at the Vaccine Cell Substrate Conference in 2004 suggested that vaccines used in the former Soviet bloc countries, China, Japan, and Africa, could have been contaminated up to 1980, meaning that hundreds of millions more could have been exposed to the virus unknowingly.

Water analysis performed by Greenpeace in 2008 reveals contamination levels exceeding the permissible norms by tens or hundreds times, with such chemicals as oil, lead, acetone, mercury, chloroform and others.

Pricope has also written Cello Basics, a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the techniques of cello playing, with hundreds of practice routines for warm-up, maintenance, teaching, and reference ( 2006 ).

Thus, “ institutional need-based awards are less sensitive to need and more sensitive to ‘ academic merit ’ than the principles of needs analysis would lead us to expect .” It has been found that increasing an SAT score in the range of 100-200 points can result in hundreds of dollars more in institutional grants and on average substantially more if one is attending a private institution.

The book Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference published in 2010 by Cordelia Fine provides a critical analysis of hundreds of recent studies on sex and intelligence.

William E. Cain noted the " extreme white male formation " of Mathiessen's list of authors and stated that by " devoting hundreds of pages of analysis and celebration to five white male authors, Mathiessen unwittingly prefigured in his book what later readers would dispute and labor to correct.

:" Glenmullen's ( 2000 ) scientific analysis of how SSRIs can cause suicide, violence, and other behavioral aberrations is essentially the same as my earlier detailed analyses ... my hundreds of media appearances, and my testimony in court cases that Glenmullen also had available.

A 2006 study using the PageRank network analysis algorithm found that, among hundreds of computer science-related journals, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory had the highest ranking and was thus deemed the most prestigious.

One potential future application of CNN microprocessors is to combine them with the DNA microarrays to allow for a near-real time DNA analysis of hundreds of thousands of different DNA sequences.

To guide its investment strategies the company's top executives have compiled hundreds of " decision rules ", which are the financial corollary to the firm's employee handbook, Principles, and these investment guidelines have been incorporated into the firm's computer's analysis.