As a measure of shifting fortunes, a Chinese government study released this week predicted that within five years China would displace Japan as the world's largest personal computer market.
The number of claims for unemployment benefits, a timelier measure of shifts in the job market, rose by 138,400 in February, the biggest monthly climb since records began in 1971.
Two EF measures were administered before and after this intervention: the Dimensional Change Card Sort (DCCS) task (a measure of shifting) and the Flanker task (a measure of inhibition).
Thus as performance of the DD and CA control children did not differ on the attentive tracking task, which is considered a measure of shifting of attention, it is unlikely that dyslexia is primarily associated with deficits in the parietal cortex per se, though it may be associated with rate of processing for parietal tasks.
A limitation of the visual-probe task is that it does not provide separate measures of shift or disengagement processes.
As this experimental method may reflect both threat-related attentional cueing and response slowing effects, it cannot be assumed to provide pure measures of shift or disengagement components of attention bias.
We have documented a relationship between measured discriminatory wage differentials and labor market tightness, as indicated by either state unemployment rates or industry-based measures of shifts in labor demand.
We developed a novel self-report measure of mode shifting, the Mode Shifting Index, (MSI) to fulfil this need.
One measure of that shift is how notable it seems for the Republican-controlled House and Democratic-controlled Senate merely to pass a "continuing resolution" averting a government shutdown at the end of this month.
One measure of the shift: Of the 100 highest-grossing concert tours of 2011 worldwide, according to the concert-tracking service Pollstar, 11 were country acts.
