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Demography is a rather precise discipline, too: its measuring rods are counts of births and deaths, marriages and divorces.

Whatever the measuring rod, is clear that things are less tense here than they were year ago, after the bloody March 2 clash between Chinese and Soviet troops on the dis puted island called Chenpao by the Chinese and Damansky by the Russians.

Objective measures of weight (1 measure using SECA electronic floor scales) and height (1 measure using SECA 240 wall mounted measuring rod) were used to calculate body mass index (BMI).

But our primary measuring rod is the employee response to the survey, including voluntary comments.

Inside the drum, a rotating and stationary measuring rod was installed, each assembled with 16 k-type thermocouples to measure the temperatures.

That movement and the tests that serve as its measuring rod were supposed to hold all students to the same standard, and to do away with the elitist notion that there are two different tracks in school, for smart and not-so-smart students -- what President Bush has called "the soft bigotry of low expectations".

He proposed to account for the puzzling outcomes of the experiments described above by means of a theory of the systematic and lawlike "malfunctioning" of clocks and measuring rods that are in motion with respect to absolute space.

From this enlightened perspective, measuring rods and clocks are objects that are far too complicated.

Offset amounts were measured using tape measures and measuring rods in the field.

Finally, the performance of the hysteresis rods are measured in their flight configuration, with hard and soft magnetic material dispersed as it is on CSSWE itself.

Growth and development of the Icelandic horse was studied in the period 1970 198080 where the average height at the withers, measured by rod, was found to be 133 cm for five-year-old horses [ 12].