His flaws as a leader and reformist were portrayed in Yevgeny Yevtushenko's poem, "Half-Measures". ... Yevtushenko's strong remarks in this poem came to be true, but not everything Gorbachev did ended in half-measure. ... So, what categorized his reforms as "half-measure"? ... What made this a half-measure was increasing openness and expression but he also censored openness and expression along the way. ... Despite some of Yevtushenko's true statements in his poem, Half-Measures, Gorbachev was ...

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Traditional intelligence tests have different scales and measure different cognitive abilities or skills. ... Next the article discusses psychometric factors in reading the article I've come to the conclusion that psychometric factors are those aspects of a test or a measure that say how good the test or measure is. They deal with things like the reliability and validity of a measure. How accurate is it at measuring a construct and does it measure what it's supposed to measure. ... Validity, briefly, refers to how well a test measures what it says it does. ...

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These techniques are commonly used by airport management to measure financial, economic and operational efficiency. ... PFP is a technique that is commonly used to measure airport performance. ... Such differences can have significant impact on partial measure of labor productivity. ... It measures efficiency and inefficiency in airport industry (Gillen & Lall, 1997). ... Graham (2005) categorises economic measures into cost efficiency, productivity and profitability. ...

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Norovirus infection cannot be entirely prevented, however, there are measures that can be taken to minimise the impact of an outbreak in nursing homes, these include: Frequent hand washing around people who are infected is a crucial measure to prevent the spread of the virus; Implementing basic hygiene and food handling measures; and isolation of those infected for 48 hours after their symptoms have ceased. I healthcare settings, such as a nursing home, control measure such as ward closures to new admissions at the very beginning of the outbreak, should be implemented within four days and shou...

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In 1995, the California division of Citibank decided to implement a new performance scorecard to measure more efficiently the performance of various divisions within the company and how those performances aligned with the strategic goals of the division. ... The new criteria for employee evaluation are as follows: • Financial Measures: Focused on total revenue and profits. ... • Control Measures: Based on the banks internal control processes. ... Based on James' quarterly performance, I would assign the following scores: Financial measures: Above Par Exceptional year-round pe...

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"It states that quantitative restrictions on imports and all measures having effect shall be prohibited within member states.... Article 34 7which states "quantitative restrictions on imports and all measures having equivalent effect shall be prohibited between member states' whereby article 35 states that "quantitative restrictions on exports, and all measures having equivalent effect, shall be prohibited in the member states." In order to establish both articles it is essential to first measure if it must either be a Quantitative Restriction or Measures Equivalent, ...

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To avoid recurrence of such situations: businesses, scholars, and governments have invested substantial time and resources in finding ways of measuring and managing business and financial risk. ... One of the methods of measuring financial risk is conducting a gap analysis. Gap analysis, also known as mismatch analysis, measures an exposure's sensitivity to market changes by reflecting on the disparity between liabilities and assets (Horcher, 2005). ... The potential for risk can be measured using measures of financial instrument sensitivity. ... Option delta is also another option that c...

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However, many leaders fear that his measure would pass with backing from an unlikely coalition of liberals and conservatives. ... On Friday, the House is looking to pass either or both of the measures, signifying Congress' most assertive stance on the Libya conflict to date. ... He also worries over the Kucinich measure individually because it could harm American relations with NATO allies contributing to troops in Afghanistan (Steinhauer). ...

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The first policy includes measures such as requiring police permits, background checks, waiting periods or licensing and registration for all gun owners. ... The third and final policy consists of measures aimed at restricting a criminal's access to guns (3). ... Overall, of the eleven general gun control measures that NORC asked about in 1999 the average respondent supported seven and a half (3). ... The second type of gun control measure, gun safety, includes establishing federal consumer product safety standards to guns. ... The survey by the NORC reported that, "support for safe...

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The current ratio measures the extent to which a business can pay its short-term debts (liquidity). ... In contrast, gearing measures the solvency of the business as an indicator of long-term stability. Gearing measures the relationship between debt and equity. ... Thus the gearing ratio, through measuring solvency, can contribute to business success. Profitability ratios, such as the net profit ratio (NPR), measure how much return the business is able to generate from sales and return on owners' equity. ...

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Following that they will complete the Butch and Feminine Identity Measure. ... Measures Butch and Feminine Identity Measure. A measure similar to Loulan (1990) was created to measure butch and femme lesbians' individual identification. ... Penke and Asendorpf (2008) Sociosexual Orientation Inventory will be utilized to measure levels of sociosexuality. ... It also includes items measures by an 8-point scale, ranging from 1 (Never) to 8 (At least once a day) (e.g. ...

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Marketing metrics can be defined as the analytics and measures of marketing performance that serve to assess the welfare of strategies in marketing. ... Analytics are the devices that measure the data used in the creation of metrics. Therefore, metrics are the specific measures of the performance in question. ... Loyalty and satisfaction from the customer are well set to determine and measure how well a firm, company, or business will perform in the future. ... Keeping existing customers is more profitable and it is a requirement for every business to move quickly when addressing dissatisfacti...

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Benefits and Issues of Application of Guidelines GRI aims to provide every company with a standardized set of performance indicators that will allow them to measure their CSR issues. ... An issue with applying guidelines to reports of CSR is that social performances are difficult to measure in comparison with environmental performances, GRI have tried to simplify this by selecting a few useful measures. ... This is useful that every company is measuring their social performance in the same areas because comparisons will be made easy and therefore when reporting to the stakeholders the informat...

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According to the labor command theory, the measure of a commodity is determined by the quantity of labor for which it (the commodity) could! ... The labor theories entangle in a circular reasoning: labor is the measure of commodities but what is the measure of labor? According to Smith, commodities are the measure of labor (because Smith defines, natural price of labor as the amount "sufficient to maintain him during the time of labor". ... In a modern society however, Smith postulated a different method of measuring value, which includes not just labor but land and capital too. ... As is e...

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Most agree, however, that intelligence measures our ability to adapt to challenges and that intelligence varies for every person. ... A case study argues that the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence is a much-needed improvement to an established measure of childrens cognitive functioning (Thomas Burns et al.) ... One of the important questions that always comes up regarding these tests is what are the tests really measuring? Are they measuring a person's intelligence? ... Perhaps we will never be able to measure intelligence accurately, and this raises the questi...

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President Lee Myung-bak from South Korea said, "The countries in crisis will have to find measures that might be painful and politically unpopular in the short term, but nonetheless they must pursue this path" (Castillo). ... Although the two sides are in direct opposition, "they agree that we need to listen to Europe, especially to Germany, to see what measures it proposed to exit the euro crisis," said Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman (Castillo). ... Some analysts predict that if these measures do take effect, the United States will face another recession (Castillo). ... A...

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Technological change is hard to measure, in order to try and see what is changing economist often measure its effects by the average rate of movement of the production function. ... The changes in output per man-hour are a very inadequate measure of technological change, a better measure is the total productivity index, and this examines changes in output to changes in both labor and capital inputs. This book was written a long time ago and ways of measuring technological change were still very young, there must be new more advanced ways that were not discussed in the book. ...

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The preference of using BMI to measure mortality rates stems from the fact that, during the 1930's, the life insurance companies of the USA performed an analysis of the factors influencing the likelihood of a person redeeming a life insurance policy. ... In general, however, BMI does correlate reasonably closely in adults to their true body fatness, particularly if combined with measures such as the circumference of the waist and hips. Underwater weighing is considered the most reliable method of measuring fat and lean body tissue in a clinical setting. ... In addition to providing fu...

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Have you ever wondered what your IQ really measures? ... A person's IQ is supposed to be a measure of that person's intelligence: the higher the IQ number, the greater the intelligence. ... An IQ test, therefore, should not be considered a measure of a person's intelligence. Rather, it is just a measure of the person's IQ. ... One type of bias, labeling bias, represents that when a test is conducted, it claims to measure one aspect, but really measures another. ...

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Given that this is a problem that is not expected in the near future, the present day policy makers are not in a hurry to institute mitigation measures. ... Moreover, they argue, it is the people who are not yet born who will reap the benefits of climate change mitigation measures. ... If the adaptation argument were to be endorsed, measures should be taken now given that the world is already experiencing some warming. ... Another way to look at it s to consider the adaptive measures we intend to employ by way of assessing their effectiveness, and their ability to support life in that severe w...

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Another interpretation is that it was an emergency measure to deal with the economic crisis caused by war, revolution and civil war (Malle 1985). ... The failure of the economic measures in this period led to the New Economic Policy. ... Lenin bitterly realised that this new policy of war communism was not working and one of the measures he took was to appoint former members of the bourgeoisie as managers of factories. ... More recent historians tend to emphasise the emergency character of the economic measures during war communism. Some historians such as Peter Boettke have interpreted war co...

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The physical security officer would obviously follow the same guidelines set by the managing body but, would be responsible for any security measures that doesn't fall under the purview of the information security officer. ... On the floor plan that was provided there is no mention of any kind of video surveillance and the security measures in place on the door itself are not mentioned. ... In this case a former employee would have an advantage over any security measures in place because he or she would already be aware of them and possibly have concocted a way in which to circumvent th...

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Its purpose was to measure pure intelligence or aptitude, as we know it today. ... Graduate Catalog p. 6-8) that the SAT measure the most appropriate aptitude of learning in the areas of critical thinking, verbal skills, and mathematics in relation to their programs more so than the ACT. ... Regarding the consistency and reliability of the SAT I as is applies to measuring the intelligence of students, many would argue that the SAT I is considerably effective. Virginia State Assessment also agrees that the SAT I is very effective, and it measures both verbal and mathematical reasoning in a well...

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The basic argument could be stated simply as, "there is little practical use in measuring end-user performance over the network when the measurements fail to offer a solution. ... For example, a valid test method involves a test set transmitting frames to an input port on the device under test (DUT) and then measuring those frames on an output port (with the same test set, of course). ... If an organization is not measuring end-user response times, it is not managing end-user response times. ... Quite often utilities such as PING are used for measuring response times. ... TCP measures th...

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This assignment, will seek to explore the introduction of MAPPA, the legislation that underpins it, statistics that support MAPPA and it will critically analyse the effectiveness of restrictive measures placed on those deemed as 'high risk dangerous offenders'. ... When discussing the management of sex offenders, the use of restrictive measures to enable safe risk management, is often at the forefront of the minds of criminal justice workers. Measures such as controlling where a sex offender can go, at what times, who to contact, and who not to contact reinforce to the offender tha...

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