In addition to measuring authority on Twitter, the company is releasing a new, intelligent Twitter List engine that identifies and ranks the top 25 influencers for any topic of interest and produces a new, qualified, and ranked list as a result.
As a preemptive measure, authorities in Zhejiang province have ordered the immediate closure of all live poultry markets in the cities of Hangzhou, Ningbo, and Jinhua, according to the state news agency Xinhua.
For measuring 'exercised authority': in the absence of previously researched tools and formal delegation rules, we optimised content validity by devising sub-scales that we deemed comprehensively described HIV M&E domains, based on our knowledge of the M&E literature, consultation with an expert informant and pilot-testing.
If the Sunnis had been given a considerable measure of authority in the provinces where they are the majority, they would have been much better able to govern and protect themselves from retaliatory abuses.
The company is set to announce a partnership today with the Nielsen Company, the voice of authority in measuring television audiences, that will give advertisers a more vivid and accurate snapshot than ever before of how many people are viewing commercials on a second-by-second basis, and who those people are.
In some measure, the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank lent a hand to this policy, presumably out of a calculation of its own political gain.
Even as the Sharon government continued to tighten security measures, the authorities, in an announcement certain to unsettle Israelis, said tonight that they had arrested a Palestinian man and his Jewish Israeli wife as prime suspects in helping organize the May 22 suicide bombing in Rishon le Zion.
Regarding the former, two important considerations to note are: whether our scales comprehensively reflect the variables of interest (content validity), and the degree to which our tool measures the concept of exercised authority in relation to existing ideas (construct validity).
The length of one's blade can be a measure of one's authority in the kitchen.
Egypt's president, Hosni Mubarak, told Israel on Thursday to "review its positions and policies and to adopt tangible confidence-building measures" toward the Palestinian Authority in order to allow a resumption of peace talks, an Egyptian official told reporters after talks between Mr. Mubarak and Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
