Essentially, accreditation processes have core normative concerns to provide barometers of performance by ensuring that organisations satisfy pre-designated standards, are regularly examined and continuously improved and embrace customer satisfaction [ 16].
In this lies a core test of the American strategy, which makes Helmand Province a potential barometer of the performance of the so-called Afghan surge.
The company's average attendance per screen, a barometer of economic performance, is 90,000 viewers a year, one of the highest levels in the Americas.
Reaching a new high for the second consecutive day, the technology-heavy Nasdaq composite closed up 11.98 at 1,847.66, and the Russell 2000 -- a barometer of the performance of small-capitalization stocks -- ended up 4.25 at 484.93.
And with an astonishing 85% response rate, it is proving to be a pretty accurate barometer of store performance linked to the customer experience.
UK universities also secure 16 second places and 21 third rankings "illustrating the depth and breadth of world-class UK education", according to QS, which says its rankings provide a global barometer of world university performance at subject level.
"Six years post-recession, airlines are finally realizing profit margins that are on par with the S&P 500 average, a barometer of U.S. corporate performance," the group's Chief Economist John Heimlich said.
So powerful was the market's advance that many stocks -- including most of those in the Standard & Poor's index of 500 stocks, the leading barometer of large companies' stock performance, and most in the Russell 2000, a leading indicator of the performance of smaller companies' stocks -- are now higher than they were when those indexes peaked in 2000.
It has now become larger than both Cyber Monday and Black Friday combined, and it is closely watched as a barometer of the company's performance.
