Seconds (along with minutes, hours and days) are a measure of ordinary, objective, public time – time as it is measured by clocks and stop-watches.
For instance, the relative "loudness," or peak heights, of the main note and the harmonics, gives a measure of the amount of ordinary matter in the universe, because of the way it sloshed in and out of the troughs of the waves.
Like many nationalist politicians in Europe, Trump has made plain his admiration for Putin, complimenting the Russian leader's "great control over his country," while at the same time failing to address the reality that Putin's regime has instituted wholesale censorship of television, increased repressive measures on ordinary citizens, and unleashed his forces in Ukraine and Syria.
He said the bank's tangible common equity ratio, which measures what holders of ordinary shares would get if a company was liquidated, would drop by more than half, to 83 pence $1.166).
Cambor isn't as accomplished a writer as Wolfe, Proulx or Fitzgerald, but her affinity with them can be seen in the diligent measure she takes of ordinary lives and fate-dealt rigors.
Tobias Owen and Roland Meier of the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy and their colleagues measured the ratio of ordinary water molecules to molecules containing deuterium, a heavy isotope of hydrogen, in this spring's spectacular comet, Hale-Bopp.
In Greenland, the child's height was measured with the child standing barefoot against a wall, marking the top of the head and measuring the height to the nearest centimetre by use of ordinary measuring tape.
What he meant was: you are all a bunch of penny-pinching accountants with trust funds who are so busy fretting about targets and returning to surplus that you have forgotten the impact of your measures upon the lives of ordinary people.
Evaristo da Veiga, one of his worst critics as well as a leader in the Liberal Party, left a statement which, according to historian Otávio Tarquínio de Sousa, became the prevailing view thereafter: "the former emperor of Brazil was not a prince of ordinary measure ... and Providence has made him a powerful instrument of liberation, both in Brazil and in Portugal.
Because the dependent variable (insulin secretion) and independent variable (insulin sensitivity) are measured with error, use of ordinary least squares regression would yield both a biased coefficient (underestimate of β) and a biased standard error of coefficient estimate (overestimate of β) (5).
