While GC-TOF-MS analysis basically covers metabolites from the central plant metabolism such as amino acids, sugars and organic acids [18], [21], high resolution LC-FT-MS analysis is able to measure a proportion of secondary metabolites not detectable by GC-TOF-MS (Fig. 1).
Performance measures were (a) proportion of patients being discharged from the A&E within 4 hours, and (b) waiting time from triage to first assessment by a doctor.
Sids' climate change adaptation needs are among the highest in the world when measured as a proportion of national output.
Measured as a proportion of disposable income, this has doubled over the past decade to over 160% (see chart 4).
A claim on the poster that the coalition had "halved the deficit" drew attacks from Labour, and critics said it was only true if measured as a proportion of national income.
For all private and public purposes within the economy, the scale of public activity is best measured as a proportion of national income: the total of incomes generated or (equivalently) of expenditures on goods and services.
Even the giddy number of bankruptcies, surpassed only in 1984, is in fact historically low when measured as a proportion of the total number of companies.
And Russia's debt, measured as a proportion of economic output, is one-tenth that of the United States and many European countries.
Measured as a proportion of their combined GDP, developing countries' external debts fell from 38.3% in 1995 to 35.6% in 1996.
But that comes at a price: when measured as a proportion of income per head just $2,040 in Bolivia connection fees are the continent's most expensive, according to the World Bank.
Without Congressional action, the deficit, as measured as a proportion of economic output, could start rising again in the latter half of the decade, the Congressional Budget Office warned again this week.
