Morphine has resulted in impaired functioning on critical flicker frequency ( a measure of overall CNS arousal ) and impaired performance on the Maddox Wing test ( a measure of deviation of the visual axes of the eyes ).

Structural geologists use a variety of methods to ( first ) measure rock geometries, ( second ) reconstruct their deformational histories, and ( third ) calculate the stress field that resulted in that deformation.

California and Oregon both opposed the measure out of fear of Chinese immigrants, New York initially ratified the amendment, but legislators later attempted to rescind the ratification, a controversial decision that might have resulted in a court challenge, but for the fact that on March 30, 1870, enough states had ratified the amendment for it to become part of the Constitution.

At the time he felt that the war was a wrongful one and believed that territorial gains were designed to spread slavery throughout the nation, writing in 1883, " I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day, regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation.

The increasing importance of user productivity resulted in innovations such as ' Auto-Gap ' where for the first time the print mechanism would measure paper thickness ( as with dot matrix printers ) and, rather than the user, set the gap.

A measure of the Royal Navy's desperation for a reliable means of dealing with fast, deep-diving, time-urgent targets at long range resulted in a project to arm Tigerfish with a nuclear warhead to offset its poor diving depth and homing performance and to increase kill probability close to 90 %.

The resulting defeat of the local measure resulted in the creation of the Orange County Great Park.

James explains in his book, The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, why he believes runs created is an essential thing to measure: With regard to an offensive player, the first key question is how many runs have resulted from what he has done with the bat and on the basepaths.

This resulted in the enactment of a law in 1816 on the Lofoten fishery, which established in some measure what has come to be known as territorial use rights.

Careful examination of their TTPs ( Techniques, Tactics, and Procedures ) for this combined, joint operation with the Iraqi National Police and Iraqi Police resulted in the emulation of their tactics for similar operations across Baghdad for the next six months, a temporary measure until surge forces could arrive and set up Joint Security Stations ( JSS ).

The decline of Liberia's exports and its inability to pay its debts resulted in a large measure of foreign interference.

GPI is an attempt to measure whether a country's growth, increased production of goods, and expanding services have actually resulted in the improvement of the welfare ( or well-being ) of the people in the country.

Joshua Steele's disagreement, and subsequent correspondence, with Monboddo over details of the " melody and measure of speech " resulted in Steele's Prosodia Rationalis, a foundational work both in phonetics and in the analysis of verse rhythm.

The plebiscite sparked a divisive debate that split the public and the Labor Party in the process, and resulted in a close but clear rejection of the measure.

The measure also eliminated criminal offender ( CORI ) reports as they pertain to arrests for simple marijuana possession, which, prior to the initiative, could have resulted in individuals being denied housing, jobs, or loans for college.

Major alterations to the course were necessary for 2006 as USA Track and Field had to measure a new course to reflect the opening of the Arthur Ravenel, Jr. Bridge and construction on the Ansonborough Fields complex resulted in the moving of the finish line away from Alexander Street, where it had been set since 2000, and a new finish line at George Street and Meeting Street, across from the Carolina First Arena in Charleston, was established.

Expeditions against the Kalmyks also seem to have resulted in a measure of success.

Approximately ten percent of those deemed legally blind, by any measure, have no vision.

By 2011, nearly six of ten full-time undergraduates qualified for a tuition-free education at CUNY due in large measure to state, federal and CUNY financial aid programs.

During the last ten years, different organizations have tried to measure and monitor the proximity to what they consider sustainability by implementing what has been called sustainability metrics and indices. This has engendered considerable political debate about what is being measured.

" As a further indication, of the ten best seasons for OPS, short for On-Base Plus Slugging Percentage, a popular modern measure of offensive productivity, four each were achieved by Ruth and Bonds, and two by Williams.

President Lincoln and other Republicans were concerned that the Emancipation Proclamation, which in 1863 declared the freedom of slaves in ten Confederate states then in rebellion, would be seen as a temporary war measure, since it was solely based on Lincoln's war powers.

In borough constituencies all male householders living in properties worth at least ten pounds a year were given the right to vote – a measure which introduced to all boroughs a standardised form of franchise for the first time.

At measure ten, where it restates the main theme, Sousa uses a rather " deceptive " chord change.

The inclusion of ten additional countries on 1 May 2004 has obliged the EU to take measure to limit CAP expenditure.

It rained mud for ten days and nights, the nine cauldrons ( presumably used in either astronomy or to measure earth movements ) shifted positions, pontianaks appeared, and ghosts cried at night.

When probing to determine sex, males typically measure eight to ten subcaudal scales, and females typically measure two to four subcaudal scales.

On the Cornish side there are ten which measure ( from Saltash station towards the river ):,,,,,,,,,, and seven on the Devon side of ( from the river towards St Budeaux ):,,,,,,.

The number gaining five GCSEs at grades A-C, the standard measure of a good education, is ten percentage points higher.

42 of his songs were on the top ten list of the radio program " Your Hit Parade ", a measure of a song's popularity.

Nearly ten years later, after the measure still wasn't introduced, one of Michael's own constituents who could have benefited from ' Sarah's law ' fell victim to a paedophile attack.

After ten years, he again mounted his horse to travel all over Great Britain and canvass support for the measure.

In practical applications, as when measuring room illumination, it is very difficult to measure illuminance more accurately than ± 10 %, and for many purposes it is quite sufficient to think of one footcandle as about ten lux.

For the complex case of unidentified amounts, the parts and examples of a mass are indicated with respect to the following: a measure of a mass ( two kilos of rice and twenty bottles of milk or ten pieces of paper ); a piece or part of a mass ( part, element, atom, item, article, drop ); or a shape of a container ( a basket, box, case, cup, bottle, vessel, jar ).

Although not specifically about newborn population screening programs, their publication, Principles and practice of screening for disease proposed ten criteria that screening programs should meet before being used as a public health measure.

Inmate cells measure seven by ten feet.

In recent years however, National Oil Companies ( NOC, as opposed to IOC, International Oil Companies ) have come to control the rights over the largest oil reserves ; by this measure the top ten companies all are NOC.

In 2004, the NABJ revived the Hall of Fall, and the Board of Directors ( upon a " strong recommendation " from the NABJ Hall of Fame Screening Committee ) voted in April 2004 to posthumously induct ten historical journalists ( referred to on the NABJ's website as " legendary figures ") as a one-time measure.

The most impressive measure six feet in diameter, ten feet tall and weigh 1200 kg.

The reciprocal beneficiary measure failed in the Utah Senate during the 2005 legislative session on a ten in favor to eighteen opposed poll.

The measure enabled the industry to expand rapidly, and in 2004 it constituted 2. 8 percent of gross domestic product ( GDP ).

The study's estimates " imply that Fox News convinced 3 to 28 percent of its viewers to vote Republican, depending on the audience measure ".

Eleven islands make up 95 percent of the Philippine landmass, and two of these — Luzon and Mindanao — measure 105, 000 and 95, 000 square kilometers, respectively.

Depending on the parish, sixty to seventy-six percent of the northern Norwegian farms were abandoned following the plague, while land-rents, another possible measure of the population numbers, dropped down to between 9-28 % of pre-plague rents.

Geneticists estimate that 50 percent of today's population in Western Canada have Aboriginal blood, and therefore would be classified as Métis by any genetic measure.

This measure, which examines Medicare spending in the context of the U. S. economy as a whole, is expected to increase from 3. 6 percent in 2010 to 5. 6 percent in 2035 and to 6. 2 percent by 2080.

As economic growth is measured as the annual percent change of gross domestic product ( GDP ), it has all the advantages and drawbacks of that measure.

Although the Kansas Constitution was amended in 1986 to allow the sale of alcoholic liquor by the individual drink with the approval of voters, Chautauqua County remained a prohibition, or " dry ", county, until 2008 ' when a county wide ballot measure was approved to allow individual liquor sales with a 30 percent food requirement

A measure that would have created a transit district was on the November 2004 ballot, but was defeated 53 to 41 percent.

Australian researchers, attempting to measure the gravitational constant deep in a mine shaft, found a discrepancy between the predicted and measured value, with the measured value being two percent too small.

: Elasticity of scale or output elasticities measure the percentage change in output induced by a percent change in inputs.

It was later revealed that the decision to withdraw had been agreed at an emergency meeting during the day between Norman Lamont, Prime Minister John Major, Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine and Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke ( the latter three all being strong pro-Europeans as well as senior Cabinet Ministers ), and that the interest rate hike to 15 percent had only been a temporary measure to prevent a rout in the pound that afternoon.

The eggs, which are greenish or olive-brownish spotted with black, measure and have a mass of, of which 8 percent is shell.

Even so, Hipparcos is only able to measure parallax angles for stars up to about 1, 600 light-years away, a little more than one percent of the diameter of the Milky Way Galaxy.

In addition, integration of the area between the zero curve and the first derivative is a measure of the specific heat of that part of the solidification which can lead to rough estimates of the percent volume of a phase.

As a mitigation measure, the City offered to direct 10 percent of revenue generated through pool entry fees into a conservation fund that is used for research and habitat enhancement.

For example, there was a case in Sao Paulo in Brazil of a quota imposed on the São Paulo Fashion Week to require that " at least 10 percent of the models to be black or indigenous ", as a coercive measure to counteract a " longstanding bias towards white models.

For the second time, the measure is rejected, this time by a slim margin of slightly more than one percent.

In order to finance the budget deficit, which amounted to 100 million livres in 1745, Machault d ' Arnouville created a tax of 5 percent on all revenues ( the vingtième ), a measure that affected the privileged classes as well as the rest of the population.

While 78 percent of Republicans and 62 percent of Independents voted for the initiative, Democratic voters opposed the measure by 64 percent.