A consent decree settled a 2008 lawsuit by the Sierra Club, Florida Wildlife Federation and others against the Environmental Protection Agency seeking to get the E.P.A. to set numeric standards for runoff like fertilizers and animal waste.
Precise "metrics," or numeric standards, on wait times would allow for equitable distribution of screeners among airports, and could create an argument for Congress to allocate more money for the agency, said Stephen D. Van Beek, executive vice president for policy at the North American branch of the Airports Council International, a trade group.
For decades, environmentalists have struggled to hold the Florida Department of Environmental Protection accountable to tough, numeric standards on pollutants.
The U.S. EPA reported TEQ values in the range of 3 718 ng/kg of TCDD and concluded that numeric standards or management practices are not warranted for dioxins and DLCs in land-applied biosolids.
Currently, the U.S. EPA has concluded that numeric standards or management practices are not warranted for dioxins and DLCs in land-applied biosolids since only 6% of the samples were observed to have TEQ values of > 100 ng/kg in the survey.
As an alternative management measure, ballast water treatment systems are being developed to meet the BWM Convention's numeric discharge standards, and several systems are available (13 ).
Descriptive variables: frequency, category shares and Fisher's exact test statistics; numeric variables: mean, standard deviation and Student's t-test statistics; SD, standard deviation.
Bit-vector types are used for these internal registers and for performing operations using the bit-vector arithmetic functions from the IEEE standard numeric bit package.
But instead of embedding digits within a QWERTY thumbboard, as PalmOne's Treo and T-Mobile's new Sidekick II do, RIM takes the opposite tack and crams the letters onto and around a standard numeric phone keypad.
For numeric data, means, standard deviations, medians and lower and upper quartiles are reported.
