In the works are more advanced programs that gauge the emotion of a person by detecting a smile or a furrowed brow.
In the past two seasons, 10 of the 14 major offensive categories that gauge overall production have had the highest nationwide averages in history.
Even the accuracy of these "dumb" bombs has improved with more accurate airplane radars and better computers that gauge the ballistics of weapons.
Regulators could monitor how this trades, or use markets that gauge the risk of insolvency, to help decide when banks must raise more capital (see article).
That's because Dr. Hirschberg is teaching computers how to spot deception — programming them to parse people's speech for patterns that gauge whether they are being honest.
That is why Mr. Takenaka's panel may also force banks to adopt techniques, common in the United States and Europe, that gauge a company's potential earnings, not just the collateral it holds against default.
But I would definitely put the state of the alterations and tailoring industry on the list of leading indicators — along with the usual suspects like interest rates and unemployment claims and construction starts — that gauge the national mood.
And third, he said, there are more than 10 tests that gauge the efficacy of sun products against UVA rays, and research on the subject "has been evolving since we began this process".
In any case, Mr bin Laden retains a sizeable core of support in several countries, and Western mistakes could easily boost that.Perhaps the more important opinion polls are those that gauge America's (un popularity.
The Dutch Safety Board, which is investigating the Feb. 25 accident at Schiphol Airport, told reporters that one of the jetliner's two radio altimeters, instruments that gauge an aircraft's altitude, had incorrectly indicated that the plane, a Boeing 737-800, wapproximatelyely at ground level, prompting the automatic pilot to throttle back the engines in preparation for touchdown.
