Acceptance of radiopasteurization is likely to be delayed, however, for two reasons: ( 1 ) the storage life of fresh chicken under refrigeration is becoming a minimal problem because of constantly improved sanitation and distributing practices, and ( 2 ) treatment by antibiotics, a measure already approved by the Federal Food and Drug Administration, serves to extend the storage life of chicken at a low cost of about 0.5 cents per pound.

However, a study in Thailand found the cost per malaria case prevented of DDT spraying ($ 1. 87 US ) to be 21 % greater than the cost per case prevented of lambda-cyhalothrin – treated nets ($ 1. 54 US ), at very least casting some doubt on the unexamined assumption that DDT was the most cost-effective measure to use in all cases.

A more comprehensive approach to measuring cost-effectiveness or efficacy of malarial control would not only measure the cost in dollars of the project, as well as the number of people saved, but would also consider ecological damage and negative aspects of insecticide use on human health.

Spreadsheet uses Free cash flow s to estimate stock's Fair Value and measure the sensibility of Weighted average cost of capital | WACC and Perpetual growth

The Sidhe are forced to take a drastic measure to severe the natural power of the kings destroying them and their armies, but at the cost of weakening the elves ' power, giving the Serpent riders an advantage to slay the elders.

In Ricardo and other classical economists, this definition serves as a measure of " real cost ", " absolute value ", or a " measure of value " invariable under changes in distribution and technology.

Opportunity cost is one way to measure the cost of something.

The cost function is an important concept in learning, as it is a measure of how far away a particular solution is from an optimal solution to the problem to be solved.

The aim is to discover a policy for selecting actions that minimizes some measure of a long-term cost ; i. e., the expected cumulative cost.

In these applications, the concept city represents, for example, customers, soldering points, or DNA fragments, and the concept distance represents travelling times or cost, or a similarity measure between DNA fragments.

Full cost accounting, triple bottom line, measuring well-being and other proposals for accounting reform often include proposals to measure an " ecological deficit " or " natural deficit " alongside a social deficit and financial deficit.

Tangible effects are difficult to measure, but an independent study for the Dutch pavilion at Expo 2000 estimated that the pavilion ( which cost around € 35 million ) generated around € 350 million of potential revenues for the Dutch economy.

Republicans were divided about the cost of the expenditures ; nevertheless nearly half ( 80 ) joined the overwhelming majority of Democrats to pass the measure 260 to 101 on August 17.

However, an important measure of a bank's value and success is the cost of liquidity.

In 2005, after extensive studies of cost of living across the world, The World Bank raised the measure for global poverty line to reflect the observed higher cost of living.

They are used in this way to measure the cost of resources consumed, identify and eliminate non-value-added costs, determine the efficiency and effectiveness of all major activities, and identity and evaluate new activities that can improve future performance.

* Historical cost accounts do not measure the loss of value of monetary assets as a result of inflation.

The Redwood City Fire Department has been contracted by San Carlos to provide administrative services for the San Carlos Fire Department, as a cost saving measure.

Proponents of the consolidation measure asserted that when the merger is completed, the new municipality of Princeton will save $ 3. 2 million dollars as a result of some scaled down services including layoffs of 15 government workers including 9 police officers ( however, the measure itself does not create any line item cost reduction or layoffs ).

Sabermetrics and comparative statistics attempt to provide an improved measure of a player's performance and contributions to his team from year to year, frequently against a statistical performance average.

Some sabermetric statistics have entered the mainstream baseball world that measure a batter's overall performance including On-base plus slugging, commonly referred to as OPS.

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.

The main mission objective was to verify performance of Spacelab systems, determine the interface capability of the orbiter, and measure the environment created by the spacecraft.

A well-constructed sundial can measure local solar time with reasonable accuracy, and sundials continued to be used to monitor the performance of clocks until the modern era.

Support-focused applications typically include dashboards similar to those for sales, plus capabilities to measure and analyze response times, service quality, agent performance, and the frequency of various issues.

The practice uses sensors to measure the output performance of the device being controlled ( often a vehicle ) and those measurements can be used to give feedback to the input actuators that can make corrections toward desired performance.

On a breach of contract by a defendant, a court generally awards the sum that would restore the injured party to the economic position they expected from performance of the promise or promises ( known as an " expectation measure " or " benefit-of-the-bargain " measure of damages ).

For example, it does a lot of string copying in an attempt to measure string copying performance.

A method is needed to measure technical performance objectively and quantitatively, and that is what EVM accomplishes.

He developed test that were standardized to measure performance in school related subjects.

All investment funds are subject to regulations that prohibit charging fees to investors, unless the investment performance of the fund is equivalent to that of an index or other measure of performance.

Non-investable indices are indicative in nature, and aim to represent the performance of some database of hedge funds using some measure such as mean, median or weighted mean from a hedge fund database.

Results of these tests are an objective measure of an athlete's fitness ; however, weight, technique and team coordination also impact performance in a boat, thus assembling a crew based purely on erg scores is not an optimal strategy.

* Kauri-butanol, ( Kb value ) a measure of solvent performance

In any case, there are two large caveats to contrast ratio as a measure of LCD performance.

* Million instructions per second, a measure of a computer's central processing unit performance

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 ).

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 Laser Interferometer Space Antenna ( LISA ) probe had been planned to be launched in 2025 to directly detect gravitational waves and would have been able to measure relative displacements with a resolution of 20 picometres over a distance of 5 million kilometres, yielding a strain sensitivity of better than 1 part in 10 < sup > 20 </ sup >.

Originally only planned as a temporarily measure, the company never became operational again and was officially dissolved in 1999.

He planned to go to this extra measure only until the troop of Germans who knew of his hiding place had left the area.

Cranborne studied Baxter's statistics and on 21 February he met Lord Carnarvon, who wrote in his diary: " He is firmly convinced now that Disraeli has played us false, that he is attempting to hustle us into his measure, that Lord Derby is in his hands and that the present form which the question has now assumed has been long planned by him ".

This measure was planned both to remove Cato, potentially a serious and difficult opponent, from the City for some time ( in the event he was away for more than two years ), and to turn him into an advocate for the legitimacy of Clodius ' adoption and tribunate, which it also effected, later causing a great deal of friction between Cato and Clodius ' bitterest enemies, especially Cicero.

The ERBS was the first of three planned satellites designed to measure the amount of energy received from the Sun and reradiated into space.

It was planned as an antiwater famine measure, to the southeast of Vihar Lake ( a much larger lake ) also for water supply to Mumbai city.

STS-69 will see the first flight of the International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker ( IEH-1 ), the first of five planned flights to measure and monitor long-term variations in the magnitude of absolute extreme ultraviolet ( EUV ) flux coming from the Sun, and to study EUV emissions from the plasma torus system around Jupiter originating from its moon Io.

An experiment to measure this effect is currently being planned.

The French high command planned to inundate large parts of their territory with water as a defensive measure.

The DEEP2 Redshift Survey uses the Keck telescopes with the new " DEIMOS " spectrograph ; a follow-up to the pilot program DEEP1, DEEP2 is designed to measure faint galaxies with redshifts 0. 7 and above, and it is therefore planned to provide a complement to SDSS and 2dF.

A mission planned for 2012, LADEE will measure dust particulates before any human presence disturbs it.

A certain measure of cooperation with the University of Pennsylvania was planned, and the idea held in mind was that the college should serve as the capstone to the scheme of education built by the Hebrew Education Society.

* Schedule – a measure of project progression, tracked against planned and actual completion dates.

The measure provides $ 9 billion for the construction of the core segment between San Francisco and Los Angeles / Anaheim, and an additional $ 950 million for improvements on local railroad systems, which will serve as feeder systems to the planned high-speed rail system.

The mass murder of Polish leaders, politicians, artists, aristocrats, the intelligentsia, and people suspected of potential anti-Nazi activity was seen as a pre-emptive measure to keep the Polish resistance scattered and to prevent the Poles from revolting during the planned German invasion of France.

What Crisis ?, attempted to reach those same sonic heights, but it was subject to the limitations of a timetable since Supertramp had gained a measure of stardom and a release date and tour had already been planned.

The district planned to tear down the old building after a 2006 bond measure approved construction of several new schools including a new middle school, and expansion at the other existing middle schools.