But attempting to interject some semblance of participation back into the voter's evaluation process is surely little more than redressing the balance from how political campaigns use people meters to gauge a focus group's reaction to an advertisement or a candidate's speech, and then altering the content to fit the profile of the broadest target demographic.
Tyco and its bankers busily spent yesterday trying to gauge interest from a group of seemingly reluctant suitors for CIT, formerly known as Tyco Capital, including GE Capital, General Electric's finance unit; Citigroup, a major Tyco creditor; the FleetBoston Financial Corporation Wells Fargoo and several other companies, according to executives close to the discussions.
In a gauge theory there is a group of transformations of the field variables (gauge transformations) that leaves the basic physics of the quantum field unchanged.
The chart above, supplied by Julian Callow of Barclays Capital, shows the gap between nominal GDP growth and official interest rates, a common gauge of policy, for a group of big economies: America, Britain, Canada, China, the euro area, India and Japan.
Blumberg and colleagues observed that estimates of health effects based on structure function relationships typically used to gauge the effects of a group of chemicals would not have predicted the observed effects of organotins since organotin structures do not resemble those of other compounds that activate retinoid X receptors and peroxisome proliferator activated receptor γ.
So in 1994, George W. Bush, then the Republican candidate for governor, borrowed a 20-gauge shotgun and invited a group of reporters on a dove hunt.
At this point, it is hard to gauge what fund managers as a group are doing.
In Experiment 2 we are able to gauge more precisely how small a group participants believe they belong to when homophily develops, and this value was surprisingly small (less than five).
Trend testing of major floods was based on counting the number of exceedances of a given flood threshold within a group of gauges.
This study allowed us to theoretically allocate a group of strain gauges on the optimal positions in the mechanical structure so that they can accomplish the dynamic control of the robot.
