The most influential measure of this reform was The Rules on Kindergarten Routines, issued by the National Education Committee in 1989.
The average workweek, a highly influential measure of the strength of the labor market, held at 34.3 hours.
It's fitting that the software that allegedly trumped the Turing Test, an influential measure of machine intelligence, was designed to mimic the conversational capabilities of a 13-year-old boy from Ukraine.
The results of Pisa tests in competitor countries, which have become an influential measure for international comparisons, will be used to establish grade five.
The study, funded by the NSPCC and the Nuffield Foundation, combs through the promises made by the previous government in response to the charities' influential Measuring Up? report of 2009.
As with information processing speed, eigenvector centrality (binary) was the most influential measure (2 SD above that of the next highest metric) in explaining executive function in the combination of metrics with the lowest mean squared error (P = 0.03, R = 0.56) (Fig. 6).
Our results are robust to a variety of model specifications, various measures of influential institutional ownership, different propensity matching methods, and different industry definitions.
Another approach to analyze the most influential factor is through measures of centrality.
Of all the grants the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has made in teacher quality, observers tend to agree that the single most influential has been the $45 million Measures of Effective Teaching study.
