Same-store sales, or sales at stores open at least a year, are an important retail measure because they exclude the effect of store openings and closings in the past year.
Jan Hol, an Ahold spokesman in the Netherlands, said the company provided investors with many measures to help them assess its financial performance, including "organic" sales and earnings figures that exclude the effect of acquisitions.
Organic sales, which exclude the effect of currency fluctuations, acquisitions and divestitures, rose 5 percent, as did the volume of goods sold.
To exclude the effect of, we define Binaural Difference Transfer Function (BDTF): (2).
This information enables us to exclude the effect of inclination on the gravity measurements.
The structural deficit attempts to exclude the effect of this recovery.
The low degree of rolling served to exclude the effect of shear banding but to capture the characteristic texture evolution.
A testified experiment was designed to exclude the effect of amino IL; it is shown in Figure8.
The cross-sectional area of the specimens was selected as being constant and sufficiently small to exclude the effect of variations of the properties in the transverse direction.
To exclude the effect of Taylor vorticities on a turbulent flow pattern, only flow regimes characterized by relatively high Reynolds numbers (>13,000) are investigated.
In models 4 and 5, in order to exclude the effect of the number of children on parents, we controlled for the number of children.
