Prestige is a measure of how other people think of you, well or ill.

A measure of how hot the stock was, can be found in what happened to it on the market as soon as trading began.

Efficiency is a measure of how much of the power source is usefully applied to the amplifier's output.

This is a measure of how much noise is introduced in the amplification process.

* RC — Runs created: statistic that attempts to measure how many runs a player has contributed to his team

* RP — Runs produced: statistic that attempts to measure how many runs a player has contributed

In baseball statistics, on-base percentage ( OBP ; sometimes referred to as on-base average / OBA, as the statistic is rarely presented as a true percentage ) is a measure of how often a batter reaches base for any reason other than a fielding error, fielder's choice, dropped / uncaught third strike, fielder's obstruction, or catcher's interference ( the latter two are ignored as either times-on-base ( TOB ) or plate appearances in calculating OBP ).

The initial, and perhaps even sole task of philosophers, according to this view, is not to establish and demonstrate theories about reality, but rather to subject all theories — including those about philosophy itself — to critical review, and measure their validity by how well they withstand criticism.

Extending this concept to all sentient beings, one can measure a range of consciousness based on how many and how powerfully neurons are actually firing, varying from worms to humans.

In calculus, a branch of mathematics, the derivative is a measure of how a function changes as its input changes.

So in some sense it provides a measure of how far the group is from being abelian ; the larger the commutator subgroup is, the " less abelian " the group is.

On the other hand, it is not immediately clear how to physically see, touch or measure the goodness of a novel or the rightness of an action.

* Equivalent variation, a measure of how much more money a consumer would pay before a price increase to avert the price increase

The thermodynamic definition was developed in the early 1850s by Rudolf Clausius and essentially describes how to measure the entropy of an isolated system in thermodynamic equilibrium.

The length is called the diffusion length and provides a measure of how far the concentration has propagated in the x-direction by diffusion in time t ( Bird, 1976 ).

A sequence is an absolute measure of base composition of an individual, or a representative of a species or group ; a genotype typically implies a measurement of how an individual differs or is specialized within a group of individuals or a species.

Global-warming potential ( GWP ) is a relative measure of how much heat a greenhouse gas traps in the atmosphere.

In other words, this is a measure of how much, on the average, the probability distribution on X will change if we are given the value of Y.

The entropy of a message multiplied by the length of that message is a measure of how much information the message contains.

Its analog joystick could register movement in any direction as well as measure the degree of push, which could move the player character at different speeds depending on how far the joystick is pushed in a certain direction.

x | θ ) is a likelihood function of θ: it gives a measure of how " likely " any particular value of θ is, if we know that X has the value x.

Efficiency of atomic orbital interactions is determined from the overlap ( a measure of how well two orbitals constructively interact with one another ) between two atomic orbitals, which is significant if the atomic orbitals are close in energy.

The Babylonians also had theorems on how to measure the area of several shapes and solids.

There was a measure of protection in its concrete walls and ceiling, but the engineers who hastily installed it were well aware that concrete is not much better than prayer, if as efficacious, when a direct hit comes along.

Before the Draft Act was passed Baker had confidentially briefed governors, sheriffs, and prospective draft board members on the administration of the measure -- and the confidence was kept so well that only one newspaper learned what was going on.

Divers measure each abalone before removing from the reef and each and every piece is re-measured by the deckhand as well as removing excess weed growth from the shell.

In the aftermath of the debate Bentinck resigned the leadership and feuded with Stanley, leader in the Lords and overall leader, who had opposed the measure and directed the party whips — in the Commons — to oppose the measure as well.

" The divine call for massacre at Jericho and elsewhere can be explained in terms of cultural norms ( Israel wasn't the only Iron Age state to practice herem ) and theology ( a measure to ensure Israel's purity as well as the fulfillment of God's promise ), but Patrick D. Miller in his commentary on Deuteronomy remarks, " there is no real way to make such reports palatable to the hearts and minds of contemporary readers and believers.

Boaz, in going beyond measure in acquiring the property ( demonstrating hesed ), redeems not only the land but both Naomi and Ruth as well.

One of the goals of these efforts is to measure the basic parameters of the Lambda-CDM model with increasing accuracy, as well as to test the predictions of the Big Bang model and look for new physics.

Other major critiques are that the term is not defined well, and employs further terms that are not defined well, and therefore lacks explanatory power, that cultural imperialism is hard to measure, and that the theory of a legacy of colonialism is not always true.

Although water is vital for life, the structure of this water in the cytosol is not well understood, mostly because methods such as nuclear magnetic resonance only give information on the average structure of water, and cannot measure local variations at the microscopic scale.

Planck employs both HEMT radiometers as well as bolometer technology and will measure the CMB on smaller scales than WMAP.

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.

The water table can be impacted by the water use and run-off of chemicals from farms, but hydroponics may minimize impact as well as having the advantage that water use and water returns are easier to measure.

That the several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government ; but that, by compact, under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States, and of amendments thereto, they constituted a general government for special purposes, delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving, each state to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government ; and that whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force ; that to this compact each state acceded as a state, and is an integral party, its co-States forming, as to itself, the other party ; that this government, created by this compact, was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself, since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers ; but that, as in all other cases of compact among powers having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress.

The Komodo dragon has a tail as long as its body, as well as about 60 frequently replaced serrated teeth that can measure up to in length.

However, aneroid gauges can be used to measure the pressure of a liquid as well as a gas, and they are not the only type of gauge that can operate without fluid.

In order to measure how well a function fits the training data, a loss function is defined.

Many of these developments were against the backdrop of improvements in both econometrics, that is the ability to measure prices and changes in goods and services, as well as their aggregate quantities, and in the creation of macroeconomics, or the study of whole economies.

After this point, no additional program of length k can be in the domain, because each of these would add 2 < sup >- k </ sup > to the measure, which is impossible.

On the National Geographic Channel television program, " Dangerous Encounters with Brady Barr ", Dr. Brady Barr measured the bite force of an adult female hippo at 8100 N ( 1821 lbf ); Barr also attempted to measure the bite pressure of an adult male hippo, but had to abandon the attempt due to the male's aggressiveness.

Mariner 5 ( Mariner Venus 1967 ) was a spacecraft of the Mariner program that carried a complement of experiments to probe Venus ' atmosphere by radio occultation, measure the hydrogen Lyman-alpha ( hard ultraviolet ) spectrum, and sample the solar particles and magnetic field fluctuations above the planet.

The use of the Canadian occupational performance measure as an outcome of a pain management program.

In 1969, Pacific Northwest was chosen by NASA to measure the concentration of both solar and galactic cosmic-ray-produced radionuclides in lunar material collected from the entire Apollo program.

Using program re-runs, a measure of relative improvement can then be determined to decide if the optimization was successful and by what amount.

In this program, formal theories of arithmetic or set theory are assigned ordinal numbers that measure the consistency strength of the theories.

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.

Secondary payloads: IMAX Cargo Bay Camera ( ICBC ) to document operations outside crew cabin and hand-held IMAX camera for use inside crew cabin ; Ascent Particle Monitor ( APM ) to detect particulate matter in payload bay ; Protein Crystal Growth ( PCG ) to provide data on growing protein crystals in microgravity ; Radiation Monitoring Equipment III ( RME III ) to measure gamma ray levels in crew cabin ; Investigations into Polymer Membrane Processing ( IPMP ) to determine porosity control in microgravity environment ; Shuttle Student involvement program ( SSIP ) experiment to study effects of near-weightlessness on electrical arcs, and Air Force Maui Optical Site ( AMOS ) experiment.

This included the launch of several spacecraft designed to directly measure the micrometeorite flux ( Pegasus satellite program ) or directly measure the dust on the surface of the Moon ( Surveyor Program ).

A perceived threat that its enemies had access to battlefield chemical and biological weapons led South Africa to begin ramping up its own program, initially as a defensive measure and in order to carry out research on vaccines.

Tom M. Mitchell provided a widely quoted, more formal definition: " A computer program is said to learn from experience E with respect to some class of tasks T and performance measure P, if its performance at tasks in T, as measured by P, improves with experience E ".

Instruction-level parallelism ( ILP ) is a measure of how many of the operations in a computer program can be performed simultaneously.

International best practices such as the Council for Further Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions, Annex 2 ; the ISO 26000 norm ( section 6. 6. 3 ) or TI Business Principles for Countering Bribery are used in external verification processes to measure and ensure that a program of bribery prevention works and is consistent with international standards.

To determine whether the direct measure was accurate, a number of additional studies followed, including the Pegasus satellite program.

* Lines of ( source ) code, a software metric used to measure the amount of code in a software program

Source lines of code ( SLOC ) is a software metric used to measure the size of a software program by counting the number of lines in the text of the program's source code.

In fact, following the 1937 Social Credit backbenchers ' revolt in which Aberhardt's government was pressured to implement its fiscal program, he once tried to implement social credit by issuing " Prosperity Certificates " to Albertans, although this measure was disallowed by the Supreme Court of Canada on the basis that only the federal government of Canada was authorized to issue currency.

Others have said CDBG's scope of allowed activities is too broad, making it difficult to measure program performance.

This measure may only occur if and attendance order program is available in the province.

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

Eventually, it became possible to provide a measure of advance application protection by performing all testing under control of a monitoring program that also served to provide Test and Debug features.

Jürgen Schmidhuber's speed prior is a complexity measure similar to Kolmogorov complexity, except that it is based on computation speed as well as program