A life cycle assessment ( LCA ) can help avoid a narrow outlook on environmental, social and economic concerns by assessing a full range of impacts associated with all cradle-to-grave stages of a process: from extraction of raw materials through materials processing, manufacture, distribution, use, repair and maintenance, and disposal or recycling.

This condition will undoubtedly continue until such time as a state uniform system of evaluation is established, or through mutual agreement of the local assessing officials for a method of standard assessment practice to be adopted.

The most realistic way of facing up to this problem would be to have the State take over full responsibility for assessing all taxable property.

Twenty-seven assessors stated that they were in favor of improved means for assessing movable personal property, and only five were opposed.

With due consideration for the limits of precision in assessing, expected rate of change in ossification of girls age 2 years, and the known variations in rate of ossification of these children as described in our preceding paper in the Supplement, each arrow with a `` shaft length '' of four months or less was selected as indicating `` same schedule '' at Onset and Completion, for this particular epiphysis.

* ASA physical status classification system, a system for assessing the fitness of patients before surgery

Methods for predicting the use of biological agents in urban areas as well as assessing the area for the hazards associated with a biological attack are being established in major cities.

Nelson, who on surveying the bay on the morning of 2 August said " Victory is not a name strong enough for such a scene ", remained at anchor in Aboukir Bay for the next two weeks, preoccupied with recovering from his wound, writing dispatches and assessing the military situation in Egypt using documents captured on board one of the prizes.

* Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale, used in medicine for assessing the severity of withdrawal symptoms

In either case, the ultimate goals are to develop techniques for assessing consciousness objectively in humans as well as other animals, and to understand the neural and psychological mechanisms that underlie it.

There are two commonly used methods for assessing the level of consciousness of a patient: a simple procedure that requires minimal training, and a more complex procedure that requires substantial expertise.

This is crucial in assessing the sensitivity and potential accuracy difficulties of numerous computational problems, for example polynomial root finding or computing eigenvalues.

The Capability Maturity Model was originally developed as a tool for objectively assessing the ability of government contractors ' processes to perform a contracted software project.

Delaware is becoming increasingly aggressive in auditing and assessing companies for unclaimed property.

Instead, education officials across the world believe that by setting clear, achievable, higher standards, aligning the curriculum, and assessing outcomes, learning can be increased for all students, and more students can succeed than the 50 percent who are defined to be above or below grade level by norm referenced standards.

The UK National Health Service uses a similar system with categories labeled A, B, C, and D. The above Levels are only appropriate for treatment or interventions ; different types of research are required for assessing diagnostic accuracy or natural history and prognosis, and hence different " levels " are required.

This successful initiation of a chain-reacting pile was important not only for its help in assessing the properties of fission — needed for understanding the internal workings of an atomic bomb — but also because it would serve as a pilot plant for the massive reactors which would be created in Hanford, Washington, which would then be used to produce the plutonium needed for the bombs used at the Trinity site and Nagasaki.

A useful technique for assessing cellular localization uses genetic engineering to express in a cell a fusion protein or chimera consisting of the natural protein of interest linked to a " reporter " such as green fluorescent protein ( GFP ).

In some intelligence organizations, analysis follows a procedure, screening general media and sources to locate items or groups of interest, and then systematically assessing their location, capabilities, inputs and environment for vulnerabilities, using a continuously-updated list of typical vulnerabilities.

From an early age William Thornton displayed interest and discernible talent in " the arts of design ," to employ an 18th-century term that is particularly useful in assessing his career.

# Consider motivational factors such as interest, drive, and passion in assessing accomplishment.

Around the middle of the 20th century, color scientists took an interest in assessing the ability of artificial lights to accurately reproduce colors.

When assessing nominations for the award, there are several criteria taken into consideration: the performance of acts of courage in difficult or dangerous circumstances ; showing exceptional leadership or personal example ; making an outstanding individual contribution to a NATO sponsored programme or activity ; or enduring particular hardship or deprivation in the interest of NATO.

The standard measures used in assessing road safety interventions are fatalities and Killed or Seriously Injured ( KSI ) rates, usually per billion ( 10 < sup > 9 </ sup >) passenger kilometres.

A 2007 report on SPOT stated that " simply put, people ( including professional lie-catchers with extensive experience of assessing veracity ) would achieve similar hit rates if they flipped a coin ".

Secondary attack rates are useful for comparisons between vaccinated and unvaccinated groups and hence assessing the efficacy of vaccinations against the disease under inspection.

Some professional-service providers are able to give fixed rates for projects, while others define the price only after assessing the work involved.

Many factors are taken into account when assessing conservation status: not simply the number of individuals remaining, but the overall increase or decrease in the population over time, breeding success rates, known threats.

The most reliable method for assessing pain in most humans is by asking a question: a person may report pain that cannot be detected by any known physiological measure.

In assessing the documents that have survived on this question, Wiencek notes that Ann Dandridge was omitted from the Custis estate records and the records of slaves at Mt.

ICRAs are not responsible for assessing the distinctiveness of the plant in question.

In State of North Carolina v. Spencer, the court reviewed the literature and case law and concluded that penile plethysmography was scientifically unreliable: " Despite the sophistication of the current equipment technology, a question remains whether the information emitted is a valid and reliable means of assessing sexual preference.

It is a challenging question, due to the difficulty of assessing what pre-linguistic children understand about others and the world.

Where a player decides not to answer their question, the team captain will normally decide which other member of the team is to answer by assessing the hand signals made by the players on the team and his / her own judgement.

The non-technical form is opinion-driven ; assessing where strategic points are based on theory and experience of the military behaviours during the period of history in question.

So the question of law is based on assessing the medical chances of recovery.

The third element that must be addressed before predicting reciprocation or compensation involves assessing the person whose behavior is in question.

The latter standard will always be societal or personal and not universal, unlike, for example, the scientific standards for assessing temperature or for determining mathematical truths.

One has always to ask “ creativity in relation to what ?” So McClelland ’ s measures, originally presented as means of assessing “ personality ”, are best understood as means of measuring competence in ways which break radically with traditional psychometric approaches.

In some senses, the process of diagnosis is always a matter of assessing the likelihood that a given condition is present in the patient.

He also skewers the self-assuredness of science ; scientists are repeatedly seen underestimating the capabilities of the Newts and falsely assessing other related issues, always in full confidence of the validity of their claims.

The value of stress tests has always been recognized as limited in assessing heart disease such as atherosclerosis, a condition which mainly produces wall thickening and enlargement of the arteries.

The person assessing should always exercise care when performing pain stimulus as a method of assessing levels of consciousness, as in some jurisdictions, it can be considered assault.

This is a key reason why voice checks should always be performed first, and the person assessing should be suitably trained.

In assessing the relative value of different kinds of information sources and evidence are court decisions always decisive — directly or indirectly.