Because of these problems, various standardized tests, often called " benchmarks " for this purpose — such as SPECint – have been developed to attempt to measure the real effective performance in commonly used applications.

One of the impacts of this directive was that the United Kingdom amended its own legislation to replace the gallon with the litre as a primary unit of measure in trade and in the conduct of public business, effective from 30 September 1995.

In addition to the raw material quality, also the production process itself is an effective quality assurance measure.

Because of these problems, researchers created standardized tests such as SPECint to attempt to measure the real effective performance in commonly used applications, and raw IPS has fallen into disuse.

The most effective method to distinguish walking from running is to measure the height of a person's center of mass using motion capture or a force plate at midstance.

* A two-channel infrared radiometer to measure the effective temperatures of small areas of Venus.

That review concluded: " Narrative synthesis of the results, based on effect size, found there was good to very good quality level II evidence that graded motor imagery is effective in reducing pain in adults with CRPS-1, irrespective of the outcome measure used.

* 1941-Andrew McKellar uses the excitation of CN doublet lines to measure that the " effective temperature of space " is about 2. 3 K

Father Pedro Estévan Tápis proposed the establishment of a mission on one of the Channel Islands in the Pacific Ocean off San Pedro Harbor in 1784, with either Santa Catalina or Santa Cruz ( known as Limú to the Tongva residents ) being the most likely locations, the reasoning being that an offshore mission might have attracted potential people to convert who were not living on the mainland, and could have been an effective measure to restrict smuggling operations.

Such injections generally are effective as a preventive measure for up to three years when performed before any symptoms have appeared, but they may be ineffective as a treatment once the disease is able to be seen.

However, this estimate does not include property taxes and local taxes as they didn't measure effective tax rates and home insurance.

“ The most effective long-term measure for conflict and resolution is the promotion of democracy and economic development.

After a 12-year battle with the County of Sacramento, the Citrus Heights voters approved the measure to incorporate the City on November 5, 1996, effective January 1, 1997.

The measure seems to have been effective.

To be effective as a hygiene measure, this process must be followed by thorough rinsing under running water to remove germs from the surface.

Laser Particle Counters are an effective way to measure filter effectiveness, medical grade can test for particles as small as 0. 3 micrometres.

In finance, the effective interest rate is often derived from the yield, a composite measure which takes into account all payments of interest and capital from the investment.

Only in this appropriately weighted case does the H measure the effective amount of light falling on the film, such that the characteristic curve will be correct independent of the spectrum of the light.

I think the danger right now is that without effective inspections, without effective monitoring, Iraq can in a very short period of time measure the months, reconstitute chemical biological weapons, long-range ballistic missiles to deliver these weapons, and even certain aspects of their nuclear weaponization program.

A numerical measure of a critical mass is dependent on the effective neutron multiplication factor, the average number of neutrons released per fission event that go on to cause another fission event rather than being absorbed or leaving the material.

In chemical thermodynamics, activity ( symbol a ) is a measure of the “ effective concentration ” of a species in a mixture, meaning that the species ' chemical potential depends on the activity of a real solution in the same way that it would depend on concentration for an ideal solution.

This study found, however, that virginity pledges are only effective in high schools in which about 30 % of the students had taken the pledge, meaning that they are not effective as a universal measure.

the granular texture thus created likewise called attention to the reality of the surface and was effective over much larger areas.

that any procedure which could " naturally " be called effective, can in fact be realized by a ( simple ) machine.

While BASE jumps had been made prior to that time, the El Capitan activity was the effective birth of what is now called BASE jumping.

Due to an affliction affecting bats in the northeastern US known as white nose syndrome ( WNS ), the US Fish & Wildlife Service has called for a moratorium effective March 26, 2009 on caving activity in states known to have hibernacula ( MD, NY, VT, NH, MA, CT, NJ, PA, VA, and WV ) affected by WNS, as well as adjoining states.

This battle marked the effective end of resistance to the expeditionary force, but the gunboats were called into service to transport troops to Fashoda, south along the White Nile, where a small force of French troops had made a difficult land crossing and staked a claim to the area.

In this landmark equation is called the attraction parameter and the repulsion parameter or the effective molecular volume.

Nazi propaganda centered on Hitler and was quite effective in creating what historians called the " Hitler Myth "— that Hitler was all-wise and that any mistakes or failures by others would be corrected when brought to his attention.

A later tradition called him Beauclerc for his scholarly interests — he could read Latin and put his learning to effective use — and Lion of Justice for refinements which he brought about in the royal administration, which he rendered the most effective in Europe, rationalizing the itinerant court, and his public espousal of the Anglo-Saxon legal tradition.

* A third approach, which bases itself on interpretation " in the light of its object and purpose ", i. e. the interpretation that best suits the goal of the treaty, also called " effective interpretation ".

To prove to Maloney that his fastball wasn't effective anymore, Bench called for a fastball, and after Maloney released the ball, Bench dropped his catcher's mitt and comfortably caught the fastball barehanded.

On January 28, 2005, UN Security Council Resolution 1583 called upon the Government of Lebanon to fully extend and exercise its sole and effective authority throughout the south, including through the deployment of sufficient numbers of Lebanese armed and security forces, to ensure a calm environment throughout the area, including along the Blue Line, and to exert control over the use of force on its territory and from it.

While the Technocracy's propaganda campaigns were effective in turning the Consensus against mystic and heterodox science, the Traditions maintained various resources, including magical nodes, hidden schools and fortresses called Chantries, and various realms outside of the Consensus in the Umbra.

The original formulation of M-theory was in terms of a ( relatively ) low-energy effective field theory, called 11-dimensional Supergravity.

Matteo Rosso, called the Great, was the effective lord of Rome from 1241, when he defeated the Imperial troops, to 1243, holding the title of Senator.

Here, a property of partial functions is called trivial if it holds for all partial computable functions or for none, and an effective decision method is called general if it decides correctly for every algorithm.

The synod, chaired by controversial Patriarch Meletius IV of Constantinople, and called Pan-Orthodox by its defenders, did not have representatives from the remaining Orthodox members of the original Pentarchy ( the Patriarchate of Jerusalem, Antioch, and Alexandria ) or from the largest Orthodox Church, the Russian Orthodox Church, then under persecution from the Bolsheviks, but only effective representation from the Patriarch of Constantinople and the Serbian Patriarch.

For example, during the Aceh War the Acehnese Klewangs, a sword similar to the machete, proved very effective in close quarters combat with Dutch troops, leading the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army to adopt a heavy cutlass, also called klewang ( very similar in appearance to the US Navy Model 1917 Cutlass ) to counter it.

In his book Dark Romance: Sexuality in the Horror Film, David Hogan called it " the most affecting gore thriller of all and, in a broader view, among the most effective horror films ever made ... the driving force of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is something far more horrible than aberrant sexuality: total insanity.

Triple point cells are so effective at achieving highly precise, reproducible temperatures, an international calibration standard for thermometers called ITS – 90 relies upon triple point cells of hydrogen, neon, oxygen, argon, mercury, and water for delineating six of its defined temperature points.

* The English East India Company expands its influence with the establishment of administrative districts called presidencies in the Indian provinces of Bengal, Madras and Bombay, the effective beginning of the company's long rule in India.

Unable to limit what they called " government by injunction " in the courts, labor and its allies persuaded the Congress of the United States in 1932 to pass the Norris-LaGuardia Act, which imposed so many procedural and substantive limits on the federal courts ' power to issue injunctions that it was an effective prohibition on federal court injunctions in cases arising out of labor disputes.