Several standardized measures of effect gauge the strength of the association between a predictor ( or set of predictors ) and the dependent variable.

These measures plus the improvement in Israel's relations with Egypt and Jordan, the renunciation of terrorism by the Palestine Liberation Organization, the on-going peace talks between the PLO and Israel, the collapse of the communist states in East Europe, which reduced the scope for sanctuaries for terrorists, and the more cautious attitude of countries such as Libya and Syria after the U. S. declared them State-sponsors of international terrorism, the collapse of ideological terrorist groups such as the Red Army Faction and the tightening of civil aviation security measures by all countries have arrested and reversed the steep upward movement of hijackings.

In light of the economic gap between rich and poor countries, movement adherents claim “ free trade ” without measures in place to protect the environment and the health and well being of workers will contribute only to the strengthening the power of industrialized nations ( often termed the " North " in opposition to the developing world's " South ").

The Common Buzzard measures between in length with a wingspan and a body mass of, making it a medium-sized raptor.

In New Zealand, the New Zealand Blood Service ( NZBS ) in 2000 introduced measures to preclude permanently donors who had resided in the United Kingdom ( including the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands ) for a total of six months or more between January 1980 and December 1996.

Although Connecticut is a wealthy state by most measures, the income gap between its urban and suburban areas is striking, with several of Connecticut's cities ranking among the nation's poorest and most dangerous.

A large challenge faced by developers and users is found in striking a balance between ease of use in the CRM interface and suitable and acceptable security measures and features.

For example, it should not matter whether one measures the distance between the Great Pyramids of Giza by laser rangefinding, by satellite imaging, or with a meter stick-in all three cases, the answer should be approximately the same.

The contrast here is between decimals and vulgar fractions, and decimal divisions and other divisions of measures, like the inch.

Each weighing measures the weight difference between objects placed in the left pan vs. any objects placed in the right pan by adding calibrated weights to the lighter pan until the balance is in equilibrium.

EP is closely linked to sociobiology, but there are key differences between them including the emphasis on domain-specific rather than domain-general mechanisms, the relevance of measures of current fitness, the importance of mismatch theory, and psychology rather than behaviour.

This process only measures the difference between the unknown frequency and the reference frequency, which must be determined by some other method.

The Queen's Chamber is exactly half-way between the north and south faces of the pyramid and measures north to south, east to west and has a pointed roof with an apex above the floor.

The goals of the agreement were to improve market access for agricultural products, reduce domestic support of agriculture in the form of price-distorting subsidies and quotas, eliminate over time export subsidies on agricultural products and to harmonize to the extent possible sanitary and phytosanitary measures between member countries.

A physician measures the latency between squeeze and contraction by observing the anal sphincter or by feeling it with a gloved finger inserted past the anus.

Among the most controversial issues related to the study of intelligence is the observation that intelligence measures such as IQ scores vary between ethnic and racial groups and sexes.

Notes themselves are represented in written form only between measures, as an optional reminder, along with modal and tempo directions if needed.

Qatar hosted peace talks between Jem and the Khartoum government announced an agreement on confidence-building measures.

anticipates that between 2007 and 2030, the measures included in its 2008 transport strategy will increase the export of transport services to a total value of $ 80 billion, a sevenfold increase on its 2008 value.

Since there is a one-to-one correspondence between Borel regular measures in the interval and functions of bounded variation ( that assigns to each function of bounded variation the corresponding Lebesgue-Stieltjes measure, and the integral with respect to the Lebesgue-Stieltjes measure agrees with the Riemann-Stieltjes integral for continuous functions ), the above stated theorem generalizes the original statement of F. Riesz.

The main part of the Bay measures 3 to 12 miles ( 5 to 20 km ) wide east-to-west and somewhere between < sup > 1 </ sup > and < sup > 2 </ sup > north-to-south.

Each monolith measures around in height, between 1 m and 1. 5 m ( 3. 3 – 4. 9 ft ) wide and around thick.

These include photon scanning microscopy ( PSTM ), which uses an optical tip to tunnel photons ; scanning tunneling potentiometry ( STP ), which measures electric potential across a surface ; spin polarized scanning tunneling microscopy ( SPSTM ), which uses a ferromagnetic tip to tunnel spin-polarized electrons into a magnetic sample, and atomic force microscopy ( AFM ), in which the force caused by interaction between the tip and sample is measured.

Probabilistic search engines rank items based on measures of similarity ( between each item and the query, typically on a scale of 1 to 0, 1 being most similar ) and sometimes popularity or authority ( see Bibliometrics ) or use relevance feedback.

This Value-system helps us to develop two basic ideas 1 ) that of ' Daksha ' or the adept / expert and 2 ) of Mahana / Parama or the Absolute and thus to judge anything in this universe in the light of these two measures, known as ' Adarsha '.

In accentual-syllabic verse, it is a line of iambic hexameter-a line of six feet or measures (" iambs "), each of which has two syllables with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

The fact that the Aeginetan standard of weights and measures ( developed in the mid-7th century ) was one of the two standards in general use in the Greek world ( the other being the Euboic-Attic ) is sufficient evidence of the early commercial importance of the island.

Lyrics: ( each line represents two measures, or eight beats )

* Measure algebra: A Banach algebra consisting of all Radon measures on some locally compact group, where the product of two measures is given by convolution.

Henry IV restored the charter granted to Gibraltar in 1310 and took two additional measures: the lands previously belonging to Algeciras ( destroyed in 1369 ) were granted to Gibraltar ; and the status of collegiate church was solicited from the pope Pius II and granted to the parish church of Saint Mary the Crowned (), now the Cathedral of St. Mary the Crowned, on the site of the old main Moorish Mosque.

As a result of Boris ' measures, two academies, one in Ohrid and one in Preslav, were founded.

When considering fuel economy in automobiles two measures are commonly used – miles per gallon ( mpg ), and litres per 100 km.

Among these are term limits of up to two five-year terms for the President and Vice President, and measures to institute checks and balances.

The approach in the United States to stopping money laundering is usefully broken into two areas: preventive ( regulatory ) measures and criminal measures.

Should, however, the efforts of the two Governments remain fruitless, this would demonstrate the fact that England and France are responsible for the continuation of the war, whereupon, in case of the continuation of the war, the Governments of Germany and of the U. S. S. R. shall engage in mutual consultations with regard to necessary measures.

Only two survived despite resuscitation measures.

If comrade Molotov can manage to postpone the war for two or three months that will be our good fortune, but you yourselves must go off and take measures to raise the combat readiness of our forces ".

Alice applies a unitary operation on the qubits ac and measures the result to obtain two classical bits.

The actual teleportation starts when Alice measures her two qubits in the Bell basis.

If each of two hypothetical experimenters, Alice and Bob, has one of the particles that form an entangled pair, and Alice measures the spin of her particle, the measurement will be entirely unpredictable, with a 50 % probability of the spin being up or down.

While the program was not fully implemented before the war, key measures such as two large devaluations and the removal of official prices were enacted.

3-2 clave written in two measures in cut-time.

Despite the global financial crisis, the South Korean economy, helped by timely stimulus measures and strong domestic consumption of products that compensated for a drop in exports, was able to avoid a recession unlike most industrialized economies, posting positive economic growth for two consecutive years of the crisis.

If one measures by arc length one finds that the shortest path connecting two points lying entirely in the sphere is a segment of the great circle containing the points ; see geodesic.

It considers the last two, distance from center and housing density, the best measures of suburban or urban identity.

" With the colonial and native civilizations in collision, compounded by British incitement of Indian tribes and mounting hostilities between the two peoples, Jefferson's administration took quick measures to avert another major conflict.