Sentence examples for measuring well from inspiring English sources

A high-power semiconductor device for industrial use, on the other hand, may be so large as to require a slice of silicon measuring well over 125 mm (5 inches) in diameter.

It is shown that even in this degraded performance scenario, HIRDLS should be capable of measuring well into the troposphere with precisions of better than 30% away from the tropical tropopause.

In its heyday, some 85 million years ago, Deinosuchus, measuring well over 10 meters from head to tail, was the terror of North American estuaries.

A Council of Psychological Advisors can help here too, in the design of a system of national "psychological accounts" that does a better job of measuring well being than per capita GDP ever could.

Furthermore, mean scores for scales measuring health related disability (PF, RP, BP except RE) were higher than scores for scales measuring well being (GH, VT, and MH except SF).

Work is where many people spend a large part of their time and so, says the OECD, gauging working environments is key to measuring well-being.

Actually, all this has been scientifically verified by the New Economics Foundation, a British think tank, which this summer ranked Vanuatu the happiest place on earth in a quality-of-life index measuring well-being and environmental impact.

Despite all the problems that there are with measuring well-being, and there are a lot, by choosing to measure it, and by using those results to judge a nations progress, we are showing that we are prioritising happiness.

Jon Gertner's article on measuring well-being quoted me correctly as saying that the adverse impact of economic adversity on the social fabric goes well beyond the lost monetary income and endures much longer than joblessness itself.

The survey is an outgrowth of work Krueger and Stone conducted with Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, Princeton's Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus and senior scholar in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, on measuring well-being and time use.

And they hew to social, health and environmental factors, not economic ones making it unique compared with other indices measuring well-being from the OECD, UN Development Programme and others.Yet when the SPI is compared with GDP per person, its usefulness shines.