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And the drop goes hand in hand with a fall in measures of efficiency.
So there was a whole lot of nothing going on in measures of economic progress or success.
Together, they constitute major gains in measures of global biologic diversity, and they have gained a name: the dark biosphere.
Both scored well in measures of infrastructure, education, and health care — while scoring poorly on political participation and human rights.
The dip in the growth of consumers' spending echoed a steady decline in measures of their confidence in the economy.
Where it really lags is in measures of responsiveness and accountability.
Greece and France were among the countries that ranked near the bottom in measures of staffing and academic independence.
Construction firms, utilities, telecoms, farmers and the health-care system have fallen well behind America in measures of productivity.
Failure to include them in measures of black progress, she argues, is akin to leaving states out of national counts.
They found that the video game players showed an improvement in measures of problem solving, spatial skill and persistence, whereas the brain training users showed no improvements.
