In the World Values Survey, the most comprehensive effort at measuring public opinion across more than 100 countries, the proportion of respondents stating that "having a democratic political system" is a "bad" or "very bad" way to run the country, for example, is strikingly similar to our original chart.
Technological advances have led to a strong increase in the number of data collection efforts aimed at measuring co-presence of individuals at different spatial resolutions.
There are precedents in rheumatology for developing pooled indices, usually as part of efforts aimed at measuring the efficacy of antirheumatic drugs [ 29- 32].
Several ongoing efforts are directed at measuring assembly accuracy on particular datasets, including the Assemblathon, GAGE and dnGASP.
Before 1970, the main efforts in this field were aimed at measuring the PM suspended in the air and its relation to death increases associated to lung diseases.
Nielsen had also previously announced the addition of Hulu and YouTube to its TV ratings, as part of its efforts at better measuring the streaming services market.
Even accounting for per capita expenditures and percentages of GDP, the U.S. is outpacing the world, despite its economic challenges and efforts at austerity measures.
This concern is at the basis of recent efforts to measure at least some of these skills (see Baethge and Arends 2009), although this is clearly a difficult task.
Effectively targeting de-radicalization efforts, or measuring the often-invisible successes or failures of hotlines and the wider outreach programs they contribute to, remains tricky at best.
The protests come as known efforts at illegal crossings — measured by the number of people detained at the border — have fallen 17percentthis yearafterfter declining 20percentt in 2007, figures that Chief David V. Aguilar of the Border Patrol points to as proof that the overall approach to border enforcement is working.
