To maximize the sensitivity, a differential biosensor design is proposed in Figure 5, which measures the difference in resistance between the two biosensors with different sensor window lengths.
Alpha measures the difference between a fund's actual return and its expected return, or beta, over three years.
The current account measures the difference between income from foreign sources and foreign obligations payable, excluding net capital investment.
The output gap measures the difference between an economy's actual and potential GDP.
Net migration measures the difference between the number of people leaving the country and the number of people entering.
The current that measures the difference between left- and right-handed particles is called the axial current and is not conserved at the quantum level.
We extend these concepts to rooted binary trees under the known rotation distance that measures the difference in shape of such trees.
Rather than aligning itself with either "how things were" or "how things could have been", the novel measures the difference between the two, and by so doing attempts to reflect a kind of experiential (rather than historical or journalistic) truth.
Though some are growing impatient at the delay in big-ticket measures, the difference to the sense of drift of the later years of the last administration – led by the centre-left Congress party – is marked.
Long-term, the trade balance, which measures the difference between the value of imports and exports, will swell in the next several months as demand for oil returns to higher levels and as exports remain steady.
But by the third measure, the effective spread, which simply measures the difference between prices of actual customer buys and sells, the spread fell after competition came in and has remained around the lower level ever since.
