Indeed, DeLay's political operation purchased ten copies of the software, which is called Caliper's Maptitude for Redistricting and costs about four thousand dollars per copy.
Eventually, every VA supplemented child was matched with a non-supplemented one using a variant of propensity score matching method called Caliper matching (i.e. matching to a control with the nearest propensity score that is within a predefined width).
Another implementation, called "skeleton caliper pig" and suitable to prevent the massive displacement of condensates from gas lines, deploys the light plastic system without any foam pig carrier, pushed by the gas velocity alone.
Forging ahead on a path of seemingly endless weight gain, Americans have passed a singular milestone: nearly 25percentt of women in their 50's have so much body fat that it cannot be measured, at least not in the traditional way, which employs a device called a skinfold caliper to measure the layer of fat just beneath the skin.
"The use-case always surprises us," says Jain. "A student we gave the device to immediately measured the length of his finger — a thing we take for granted". One teacher, who had previously wondered how students who had yet to grasp fractions could use the caliper, called the team to tell them how thanks to it, her students are becoming fluent in fractions.
Caliper Corporation CEO Herb Greenberg called it a "win-win situation" that benefited his workers and his business, noting that 20 of his 22 employees who have taken family leave have returned to work for him.
Loaded dice (called tappers, missouts, passers, floppers, cappers, or spot loaders, depending on how and where extra weight has been applied) may prove to be perfect cubes when measured with calipers, but extra weight just below the surface on some sides will make the opposite sides come up more often than they should.
Dividers and calipers were known to both the Greeks and Romans, though the caliper was uncommon.
Mr. Greenberg and his partner, David Mayer, started Caliper with a $15,000 loan.
Measurements were taken with a digital vernier caliper (Mitutoyo 500 351).
Knot quality was assessed using digital caliper measurement.
