With increased levels of pain tolerance linked to the release of potent pain-killing chemicals known as endorphins, the test offered scientists an indirect way of gauging changes to endorphin levels in the brain.
It is shown that modal shares are very sensitive to the cost of rail and to that of track gauge changes at the Spanish border.
ABC, a unit of the Walt Disney Company, conducted focus groups with consumers last summer to gauge potential changes to the advertising load on its video Web site.
A recent study by the Indian Space Research Organization, using satellite imaging to gauge the changes to 466 glaciers, has found more than a 20percentt reduction in size from 1962 to 2001, with bigger glaciers breaking into smaller pieces, each one retreating faster than its parent.
With guides in hand, I am forever (in my mind) switching trains in Teschen, boarding tramp steamers in Genoa for the Sardinian coast or calculating where the rail gauge changes from narrow to standard between Hanoi and Kunming.
To assist researchers and policymakers in their work, UNAIDS developed a series of core indicators to measure RSB and to gauge changes in HIV/AIDS around the world.
One way to gauge changes in pesticide use that is less affected by the time of sampling is to examine pesticide concentrations in household dust in these studies.
Further studies should incorporate electrophysiological assessment to gauge changes in synaptic strength of direct and indirect pathways between the cortex and spinal cord in response to multimodal exercises.
But, in seeking to gauge changes in US monetary conditions, investors have been looking in the wrong place.
The exams were fundamentally different from those given in 2005, so the results cannot be compared with earlier tests to gauge changes in proficiency.
