I am hoping it will turn out to be the future of the quantified self movement, and in a few years it will be the way everyone measures and understands the things they care about — fitness, productivity, travel, medical history, anything important in life," he said.
To do the latter, one must develop a representation for the underlying scene or phenomenon that is being measured and understand the mapping between that representation and the measurements y1, y2,..., y J.
"We desperately need science to measure and understand what's going on in tiger areas".
The value of your equity mutual funds goes up and down every day, in a way that you can measure and understand.
They're not light reading but both provide new lenses with which to measure and understand the cultural impact of the political changes that took place in 1989 and are still being felt by working artists in eastern Europe today.
"He redirected political science away from rational models of political behavior and toward things that are harder to measure and understand," said Richard Samuels, a political scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Professor Pye taught for 35 years.
It is far harder to measure and understand impacts when working in more challenging social settings where environmental benefits are only delivered after trust, confidence and awareness has been built.
Other branches of physical chemistry include chemical thermodynamics, which deals with the relationship between heat and other forms of chemical energy, and chemical kinetics, which seeks to measure and understand the rates of chemical reactions.
Years ago, enthusiasts predicted the coming of "smart dust" — tiny digital sensors, strewn around the globe, gathering all sorts of information and communicating with powerful computer networks to monitor, measure and understand the physical world in new ways.
In the 1940s Professor Isard (pronounced EYE-zard) found common cause with other economists searching for a more sophisticated way to measure and understand economic activity on a smaller-than-national scale.
