Arguably, however, the better measure of advancement is not corporate status but money.
The migrants say the hardships of the journey are worth the prospective payoffs — life in the United States, where, they all seem to believe, they can escape relentless poverty and crime and earn a measure of advancement, if not prosperity.
We may also refuse to speak up because we know that talking about diversity can activate bias, rather than alleviate it; this is one reason, despite companies spending millions of dollars on diversity training, actual measures of advancement for women and minorities haven't moved much in many industries.
The objective of this study is to fill this gap in the research by conducting an investigation into objective measures of advancement in terms of hierarchy level and duration of promotion.
As a measure of economic advancement, of an exploding middle class shamelessly demanding to eat as their equivalents in the west do, you couldn't hope to find much better.
This complexity derives from two main factors: 1). the difficulty of defining objective and reliable measures of the "advancement of knowledge"; 2). the presence of many potential users of the results of scientific activity, such as scientists, technicians, engineers, manufacturers, students, and consumers, all of whom impose many different demands.
One of the most remarkable features of such measures of technological advancement is the concentration in only a few areas.
In these analyses, we regressed, across all sites and years and within all sites and years, changes in the relative abundance of species in the current surveys (2006 2008) relative to their 1959 to 1960 averages (Table 1) with our recorded measures of phenological advancement (Table 2).
The only measure of women's advancement is whether they win the right to drive.
In addition, diagnostic and prognostic techniques have progressed with the advancement of technology, with earlier publications often relying on subjective measures of progression, including kidney palpation.
Instead, we should measure the advancement of graduates early in their careers, through promotions and upward moves across sector and role.
